S BREEDING. 



mare, that, deftitute of judgment and deaf 

 to remonftrance, he ranks in [in imagination) 

 the produce, a prodigy even in embryo^ and 

 proceeds regularly, year after year, increafing 

 the number, without a fingle addition to the 

 improvement of the fpecies. 



Thefe are the kind of hypothetical breed- 

 ers, (and great plenty there are) who cal- 

 culate doubly in error, by calculating upon 

 profit^ without a fingle contingent reflexion 

 upon lojs ; ridiculoufly fuppofing a mare in 

 foal, or after delivery, can fupport her own 

 frame, and that of her offspring, upon lefs 

 food than any other horfe or mare in conftant 

 work ; and begin breeding under an idea that 

 it w^ill be attended with httle or no expence. 

 Thus totally inadequate (or indifferent) to the 

 generating of fiep^ bloody and hone by the ef* 

 fed: of nutrition, they penurioufly and inhu- 

 manly adopt a kind of temporary poverty, and 

 after a year or two of artificial famine feem 

 greatly furprifed, that air and exercife alone 

 have not produced a colt, or filly, of equal 

 f^'^e^ Jlrength^ and perfe^ion^ with thofe who 

 have omitted no one expenfe or neceffary 

 acquifition, that could in the leaft contribute 



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