BREEDING. 103 



whofe whole accumulation oi points ^nd per ^ 

 fc^ions will never exceed jive and twenty^ 

 w^hen brought to theteftof infpeftion at a 

 public market. 



Confcious how many will continue to breed 

 under every diladvantage, and to perfift under 

 every peculiarity, I ihall fubmit the diftind: 

 kind of aliment to be felecled, and the quan- 

 tity to be regulated entirely by the judgment, 

 whim, caprice^ experiment, or local cuftom 

 of every individual, upon a perfect conviction 

 he will JLiilly claim and exert that privilege, 

 in cppofition to any opinion or dilation of 

 mine; whofe farther inftruflions upon this 

 head might be candidly confidered obtruiive, 

 w^here conditional direcflions under fo many 

 contingencies (as the ftate of various fubjedts 

 and temperature or fe verity of different fea- 

 fons) muft prove totally inadequate to general 

 application, 



Convinced, however, on the contrary, how 

 very many there are, who, anxious for infor- 

 mation and open to inftrudiion, pofiefs' pa- 

 tience to receive, and judgment to adopt, 

 every fpecies of improvement calculated for 

 H 4 the 



