ON BREEDING AND REARING ANIMALS. 3? 



ral supply of food, and afterwards placed in a ^ 

 situation where the climate is harsh, and the / 

 supply of food scanty, they must of necessity de- 

 cline in flesh, and in health and vigour : but 

 their young, bred under those circumstances of 



privation will ^cauire habits, and be reduced 



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to a size, m&& conformable f and these again 



breeding in and in, the habits of their progeny 

 will still become better adapted, until, by de- 

 grees, they will become perfectly inured and na- 

 turalised, and capable of making the utmost 

 return the farm is equal to, and at the least \ 

 expense. But if j on the other hand, the breeder 

 chooses to contend with, and oppose, nature ; 

 and instead of submitting to her laws, he still 

 persists in attempting to keep up the size, by a 

 fresh supply of males and females from the ori- 

 ginal quarter, he inevitably must be subjected 

 to the consequences of a want of health and vi- 

 gour, and incur great hazard, and extra expense. 

 That the above principles equally govern the 

 vegetable, as well as the animal world, has 

 been demonstrated by Sir Joseph^Banks, who 

 says, that jby repeatedly raising plants from the 

 seeds g0iwji, on .the ..sgot, he has so naturalised 

 tcTthis climate, vegetables that were natives of 

 a warm climate, and which on their first intro- 

 duction into this country, could only be kept 



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