As well as of deteriorated Animals. 



higher grounds. The same breed of animals, shifted 

 to distant and different^ parts of a country will recover 

 a degenerate race. Both these facts, as they apply to 

 plants and animals, have been experienced by me, and 

 multitudes of other farmers.! 



Nature^ the creature and agent of the divine author 

 and director of all things, without intermission, when 

 special interferences do not occur, (which they who do 



"^ ^'- Different^'* is here to be understood, from high to low 

 lands, and vice versa. Also as to herbage, and texture of 

 soil, — such as, from salt marsh, to fresh grass &c. — Sheep 

 with the 7-ot^ and other diseases, have been cured, by change 

 itovcv fresh pastures to salt marshes. 



f The careful attention of some Europeans^ to the breeding 

 Systeniy may, like a selection of grain for seed corn, be, by 

 such judicious selection, a substitute for changes. They are 

 not however, there agreed, what is the best course for con- 

 tinuing, preserving from deterioration, or improving their 

 valuable animals* Great success has attended a few cele- 

 brated breeders, in different modes. Some are attached to 

 crosses, others hold it unnecessary and injurious ; and select 

 the best and finest stock for breeders, from the same family. 

 In this country'-, where little knowledge of, or attention to this 

 system exists, the shortest and best mode is to change, either 

 locality, or stock. But in no case, should either the original 

 stock, or attention to it in its progress, be neglected* Our 

 time and labour are engaged so unremittingly, in our com^ 

 mon affairs, that the necessary application to liice selections, 

 cannot often be afforded, by the mass of farmers. If the re- 

 sult can be produced, with the same application, as profitably, 

 it will be immaterial and a mere speculation, whether selec- 

 tion be considered a substitute for change, or change for 

 selection, of either stock, or grain. 



