BREEDING. 103 



whose whole accumulation oi points and j^er- 

 fections will never exceed five^and-ttventy ^ 

 when brought to the test of inspection at a 

 public market. 



Conscious how many rrill continue to 

 breed under every disadvantage, and to per- 

 sist under every pecujiarity, I shall submit 

 the distinct kind of aliment to be selected, 

 and the quantity to be regulated entirely by 

 the judgment, whim, caprice, experiment, or 

 local custom of every individual, upon a per- 

 fect conviction he will justly claim and exert 

 that privilege, in opposition to any opinion 

 or dictation of mine ; whose further instruc- 

 tions upon this head might be candidly con- 

 sidered obtrusive^ where conditional direc- 

 tions under so many contingencies (as the 

 state of various subjects and temperature of 

 severity of different seasons) must prove to- 

 tally inadequate to general application. 



Convinced^ however^ on the contrary, how 

 very many there are, who, anxious for infor- 

 mation and open to instruction, possess pa- 

 tience to receive, and judgment to adopt, 

 .every species of improvement calculated for 



