38 INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 



fportfinan to give his horfe a dofe of fublimate, 

 freih butter and red wine, on taking him up 

 from grafs. Nearly all that is faid on the fub- 

 jert of breeding in Mills's book, will be ridi- 

 culed as obfolete and inapplicable, as well as 

 irrational, by the Englifh breeders of the prefent 

 time. 



After having introduced a treatife on live 

 flock in general, it is impomble not to recollecl 

 a late excellent work of that kind, written by 

 Mr. George Culley, a Northumberland farmer, 

 and which ought to be in the hands of every, 

 farmer in Britain. It is the only original 

 work of the kind in our language, and contains, 

 in a fmall compafs, a molt valuable fund of 

 information (chiefly from the author's own 

 experience) concerning the different breeds of 

 animals in ufe among us at the prefent time, 

 with their comparative merits. Mr. Culley s 

 chief attention feems to have been paid to - 

 horned cattle and fheep ; but what he fays 

 relative to Horfes is truly interefting. He is 

 an advocate for the late Mr. Bakewell's Syftem 

 of Breeding Cattle, in and in, that is to fay, 

 from the neareit affinities ; provided they be 

 of the beft breed which is to be procured, and 

 of the trued fymmetry ; a fyftem in direct oppo- 

 fition to the old one, of eroding breeds, which 

 ftill maintains its ground in our fluds of 

 Horfes. There is no doubt but this new me- 

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