so BREEDING, 



tjbe cows as good as a run with them ; that 

 chaff is a rriuch more profitable and healthy 

 food than oats^ and that an open farm-yard, 

 with a crib of barky or oat ftraw, during 

 the fevere frofc and fnow of a long dreary 

 winter, are preferable to all other accommo- 

 dations of food and flielter, as (to make ufe 

 of his own juftificaticn) they are then in the 

 moft proper ftate, ** a Jiate of nature ^ 

 Thefe are the perfuafive motives affigned alfo 

 by thofe ftrenuous advocates for general im- 

 provement, who barely fubfift their mares 

 during the tedious months of geftation, un- 

 der an idea perfedly coincident with the 

 principles juft defcribed, that a mare after 

 having been covered, requires but '* Utile or 

 no keep^^^ as (with fuch contemptible fpecu- 

 lators) the a^i itfelf is ridiculoufly fuppofed 

 tQ make the mare/^/. This is the invariable 

 opinion among the lefs enlightened clafs of 

 ruftics ; and though the act and its confe- 

 quence may be jullly faid to make the mare 

 big, yet the original remark is certainly too 

 ludicrous for ferious qonfideration. 



After the ncceffary introdudiion of fuch 

 obfervations as are evidently connedled with, 



and 



