16 NOTES. 



81 The late intelligent Mr Davis of Longleat, lamented that the Wiltshire 

 farmers had that "pride of stock," which induced them to prefer beauty and 

 size, to utility and profit. Wiltshire Report, p. 203. 



82 Sir John S. Sebright's Letter to Sir Joseph Banks, p. 22. 



83 Bedfordshire Report, p. 572. All the fine breeds have a much less bulk 

 of intestines, and a smaller intestinal canal, than the inferior stock, which is at- 

 tributed to this, that getting rich food in early life, containing much nourish- 

 ment in a small bulk, the parts are not so distended, as they would have been 

 with coarser fare. Coventry's Discourses, p. 165. 



84 Coventry's Discourses, p. 175, note. 



85 These anatomical rules, as they are called, have been objected to. It is 

 said, that a broad-chested horse is seldom a good hackney ; that in a blood 

 horse, it is desirable that his chest should be lean, and rather tight to the eye ; 

 that a broad-chested ox is often light in the flank ; and that broad and well 

 spread shoulders indicate a good ox, more than width between the fore-legs. 

 These, however, are only exceptions to a general rule. In regard to sheep in 

 particular, an expanded chest, in which there is ample room for the free play 

 of the heart and lungs, is the characteristic mark of health and vigour in the 

 animal. Doctor Rigby's Report, p. 25. 



86 See the paper by Henry Cline, Esq. " On the Form of Animals." Com- 

 munications to the Board of Agriculture, vol. iv. p. 440. 



87 Small bones, like those of the blood horse, are compact and heavy ; 

 large bones, like those of the common dray or carthorses, are extremely porous, 

 and consequently light for their apparent bulk. 



88 Husbandry of Scotland, vol. ii. Appendix, p. 112. 



89 General Report of Scotland, vol. iii. p. 6. Of two calves kept and fed 

 alike, one of the improved breed, the other of the common unimproved stock 

 of the country, the first got fatter and fitter for the butcher at two years old, 

 than the other did at three. Durham Report, p. 236. 



90 Coventry's Discourses, p. 179. The same intelligent author justly re- 

 marks, that the breeds distinguished by early maturity, do not seem calculated 

 for districts, where the climate is cold, and the food is poor and scanty. Hence 

 it is not improbable, that a slow-growing animal, capable of being sustained 

 on coarser fare, may prove ultimately more profitable in such a district, more 

 especially in cases where richer food is expensive, or acquired w.ith difficulty. 

 Ditto, p. 177. 



91 It is remarked in the Highlands, that in bad weather, hardy cattle keep 

 their back bones straight, whereas the more delicate sort set up a hog back. 

 Hence the crooked appearance of bad cattle. 



92 Middlesex Report, p. 576. 



93 Culley on Live Stock, second edition, p. 43. 



94 Coventry's Discourses, p. 183. 



95 Answers to Queries, by T. A. Knight, Esq. Husbandry of Scotland, 

 vol. 'ii. Appendix, p. 204. 



96 Coventry's Discourses, p. 175. Culley on Live Stock, second edition, 

 p. 43. The quality of the flesh is much more attended to in the English than 

 in the Scotch markets. 



97 Coventry's Discourses, p. 177, &c. 



98 Willich's Lectures on Diet and Regimen, third edition, p. 316. 



99 Hints regarding Cattle, from Essays on Miscellaneous Subjects ; by Sir 

 John Sinclair, Bart. p. 74. 



100 See Answers to Queries regarding Live Stock, by T. A. Knight, Esq. 

 Husbandry of Scotland, vol. ii. Appendix, p. 108. Dr Stark's experiments go 

 to prove, that three ounces of boiled fat beef are equal, in point of nutrition, to 

 a pound of lean. See a tract printed an. 1801, entitled, ' Practical Economy," 

 &c. 



101 Young's Lecture on the Husbandry of Three Celebrated Farmers, p. 10. 



