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and incapable of imbibing inftruflion from 

 the niceft laws of nature, will be regulated 

 implicitly by the didiates of their own mer- 

 cenary fenfations ; affedling to believe, that 

 the mare, producing a foal every year ^ will 

 continue her Hock equally ftrong, healthy, 

 and valuable, wuth thofe that are favoured 

 with occafional and neceffary intermiffions. 

 This is not the fad:; attentive obfervation, 

 accurate eftimate, and impartial decifion, will 

 clearly prove fuch fucceflion to degenerate in 

 bone, fize, flrength, and value, when pro- 

 duced from the fame mare for a feries of 

 years without the leaft cefiation ; while, on 

 the contrary, a Jingle yearns fallow in every 

 three or four, will, upon comparifon critic 

 cally made, prove in the aggregate decidedly 

 in favour of the breeder. 



Having gone regularly through every 

 branch of information at all appertaining to 

 the propagation and prefervation of ftock, 

 we now come to the time and manner of 

 weaning; a matter that muft ever be regu- 

 lated much more by the circumftances of the 

 cafe than the ftate of the feafon, depending 

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