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in a great degree upon the conditions we pro-. 

 ceed to explain. Confiderations upon this 

 fubjed: are fo unavoidably complex, and de* 

 pend fo much upon contingencies, that a 

 nicety of dilcrimination is upon all occafions 

 neceffary how to proceed in the bufinefs be^ 

 fore us. 



The difference of a mare foaling early or 

 late in the feafon ; her remaining fallow, 

 or having taken the horfe and renewed her 

 conception ; the forward growth and rapid 

 improvement, or puny and backward ftate 

 of the foal, are all conditional matters upon 

 which variations are to be formed. For 

 inftance, where the mare has dropped her 

 foal early in the feafon, has again taken the 

 horfe, and the foal at her foot has improved 

 properly, and acquired the defired ftrength 

 and fize previous to the commencement of 

 fevere weather; fuch foal fhould be taken 

 from the dam fo foon as the decay of paf- 

 ture perceptibly occafions a reduftion in the 

 fupply of milk ; and this feparation becom.es 

 the more immediately neceffary upon an efta- 

 bliflied truth, that the longer a foal is per- 

 mitted 



