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and the change is as fevere in its efFedts 

 upon the animal as the vegetative part of the 

 world. 



In this general revolution, the expefted 

 and former nutriment from the da?n becomes 

 not only reduced in quantity, but impaired 

 in quality ; diverted in a great degree of its 

 balfamic and nourifhing property, it M^ifely 

 points out to the foal, the feeling neceflity 

 of an adequate fubftitute for fuch defici- 

 ency ; under fo predominant a fenfation as 

 hunger, he readily fubmits to an alteration 

 in the means of fubfilience, and in a few 

 days becomes perfedlly reconciled to the food 

 allotted him, provided it is applicable to the 

 flate of his infancy, good in its kind, and 

 properly felefled to gratify the calls of na* 

 ture. 



Of thefe tliere are various kinds, that 

 have each their different advocates, whether 

 in oats, bran, chaffs barley, wheat, hay^ or 

 Jiraw^ and each advocate loaded with reafons 

 of the firft importance and felf confequence, 

 (regulated perhaps by pecuniary fenfation) 

 to jufiify the opinion he has formed : but as 



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