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the promotion of general good ; it is entirely 

 for their accpmmodation, that I have minutely 

 defcended not only to an explanation of the 

 quality of different kinds of food, but repeat- 

 edly to the work of digeftion and effecft of 

 nutrition, that the very means of growth, 

 Jlrengthy2cci^ condition may be more rationally 

 confidered and fundamentally underftood. 



Prefuming on the care taken to inculcate 

 fuch knowledge, and thoroughly convinced 

 of the advantages that arife from a liberal 

 diftribution of provender to ftock of every 

 kind upon certain emergencies, 1 beg to con- 

 clude my obfervations under this head, with 

 an additional injundtion to breeders of every 

 denomination, to endeavour in the two Jirjl 

 winters, to acquire all pofTible advantage ii;i 

 fize, ftrength, and bone ; which I have be- 

 fore faid, and again affert, depends as muc^i 

 upon the judicious and plentiful fupplies qf 

 food, as the quahfications of horfe and mare, 

 fo folely relied upon and eternally echoed by 

 thofe fubordinate cavilifts who pofiefs the 

 opinion, but not the means to juftify their 

 affertion. For fize, ftrength, and bone being 

 thus conftantly promoted by care and atten- 



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