THE IMPROVED ART OF FARRIERY. 355 



suffered to get into such a disgusting or nauseating 

 state, and of course no loss or waste will be sustained 

 on such account. Besides, it may be further noticed, 

 that the few such plants and grasses as may be wholly 

 disregarded and loathed by one set or sort of animal, 

 so as to be even rejected by them in the house or yard, 

 will not on that account become le&uS acceptable or de- 

 sirable to others ; but often the contrary. So grass or 

 other such food which has been blown or much breathed 

 upon by any animals becomes unpleasant and disgusting 

 to any other beast of the same sort, but not so to stock 

 of another kind or variety. Nay, even greater states 

 of taint and injury done to such matters by one sort 

 of animal appear to render the food afforded by such 

 substances more desirable to others ; thus, such straw 

 as in the clean state has been refused by neat cattle, 

 if used as litter in stables, acquire such a relish that 

 they seek and eat it with much greediness. In conse- 

 quence of this, the matters swept up, collected, and 

 cleaned out, from the places where one sort of animals 

 have been kept, in this practice may supply, in some 

 cases, those of another kind with an agreeable sort 

 of ff dder, as they can be easily removed from the feed- 

 inf^-place of one to that of another, but which in the 

 fi'Ad or pasture-method of being fed must be in a great 

 measure lost or wasted. 



Several objections have, however, been brought 

 against this practice of foddering and keeping this sort 

 of stock, but probably by those only who have had but 

 little if any experience in this mode, as facts and the 

 results of the most correct and exact trials are 

 uniformly against them. Some persons have supposed 

 that a great objection to it lies in the expense of con- 

 ducting the business, which they consider a great deal 

 too much. But all the trials which have been made 



