574 NOVEMBER. 



BREEDING. HORSES. 



Our young-; farmer, on ; entering his form,, will 

 have to determine upon the.. system of, keeping 

 mares for breeding, or. using geldings or .jjwes 

 without increase. As\a general question, ,1 should 

 presume he would, if. he be well advised, pursue the 

 latter system. Breeding demands a-larger number 

 to be kept, and a management much more careful 

 and attentive, and more obedient servants,.- than the 

 more common conduct. The hazards, also, are 

 not inconsiderable: I have attempted, in , various 

 districts, to analyze the benefit derived from breed- 

 ing; but have not, in any, been-so convinced of the 

 profit, as to deem it proper to pay any regular at- 

 tention to the article in this Calendar. Where it 

 |s the general practice of every farmer, the servants 

 and labourers acquire a certain degree of skill and 

 care, very useful 'in the business, and which may 

 Tender it not disadvantageous with tolerable -heck ; 

 but, in such cases, there is not m'uch need of Ca- 

 lendars to remind: in other situations, I cannot 

 advise a young farmer to breed; he will find it more 

 safe and profitable to avoid it. 



GARDEN. 



A good and well-cultivated kitchen -garden is a 

 capital object to a^ist in house-keeping. I have 

 inserted in the Annals of Agriculture, vol. xxxix. 

 pp. 228, 3O4, th|; scheme of a circular one for 

 beipg kept under the plough, which may be safely 



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