BREEDING. 7^ 



.vvhofe views are more extenfive, and who 

 cannot reconcile his opinion or found his 

 judgment upon the quahty of aliment^ the 

 procefs-of digeflion, or the effecS of nutrition^ 

 by what has been concifely introduced upon 

 thofe fubjecls, mufl derive more fubftantial 

 affiftance from the variety of excellent pro- 

 feffional pubhcations more particularly adap- 

 ted to fuch inveftigation and inquiry; as 

 the majority of thofe who do me the ho- 

 nour of occafional infpedtion, will certainly 

 expecfl, under the head we now write upon, 

 to find much more matter pf amufem.ent 

 and rural inftrucftion than fcientinc difquifi- 

 tion. 



Declining, therefore, a matter of fo much 

 extent, and fo little applicable to the prefent 

 purpofe, we naturally revert to the ftate of 

 the mare, and the m^eans of enlarging the 

 powers ; from which alone, the foal is to 

 receive not only a fufficiency of nutriment 

 for bare fubfiftence, but an abfolute abun- 

 dance or fuperflux for the promotion of ad- 

 vantages Vv^e have fo particularly explained. 

 The deficiency before-mentioned having been 



attentively 



