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the promotion of general good ; it is entirely 

 for their accommodation, that I have minutely 

 descended not only to an explanation of the 

 quality of different kinds of food^ but repeat- 

 edly to the Avork of digestion and effect of 

 nutrition, that the very means of groxvth, 

 strength, and condition may be more rationally 

 considered and fundamentally understood. 



Presuming on the care taken to inculcate 

 such knowledge, and thoroughly convinced 

 of the advantages that arise from a liberal 

 distribution of provender to stock of every 

 kind upon certain emergencies, I beg to con- 

 clude my observations under this head, with 

 an additional injunction to breeders of every 

 denomination, to endeavour, in the txvo Jirst 

 "winters, to acquire all possible advantage in 

 size, strength, and bone ; which I have be- 

 fore said, and again assert, depends as much 

 upon the judicious and plentiful supplies of 

 food, as the qualifications of horse and mare, 

 so solely relied upon,Bnd eternally echoed by 

 those subordinate cavillists, who possess the 

 opinion, but not the means to justify their 

 assertion. For size, strength, and bone, bein^' 

 thus constantly promoted by care and atten- 



