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bleak winds and frigid fliowers, but before 

 there is a fingle blade of exuberant paflurc 

 to fubfiil: the dam, or encourage the growth 

 of twelve months tedious expetftation. 



From what has been fo lately and re- 

 peatedly urged, refpe(!!ting the properties of 

 different kinds of aliment, and its effect 

 upon the animal fyftem, little more can be 

 required to prove, that whenever a neceffity 

 abfolutely exifts for fubfifting the mare en- 

 tirely upon dry food, the fecretion of milk 

 muft be inevitably reduced, and the im- 

 provement of the foal proporticnably ob- 

 ftrudied. Taking this, then, as a matter 

 univerfally admitted, and, in fad, what no 

 man living w^ill attempt to difprove, we 

 may naturally conclude no rational invefti- 

 gator of truth and confiftency will ever 

 deviate fo much fi-om the line of his own 

 intereft, as to promote the propagation of 

 what muft, at the time of his birth, be in 

 a great degree deprived of its moft natural 

 means of exiftence ; a deficiency not in his 

 power to fupply by any adequate fubftitute 

 whatever. 



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