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SECTION XIII. ee” 
Of Farm Cattle. ; 
These consist of horses, mules, cows, oxen, sheep 
and hogs. [t is not the object of this paper to discuss 
the relative value of animals of different kinds, nor to 
explain the principles on which an individual of either 
kind, is prefered to another individual of the same 
kind, but merely to indicate the uses of each, and the 
modes most approved for giving extension and value 
to these uses. And Ist of the Horse: 
Of this animal, naturalists admit but one species, 
but many and widely different varieties, which are 
again subdivided under the denomination of races.(1) 
At the head of these, by common consent, stands the 
horse of Arabia, and after him, the Persian, the Barb, 
the Andalusian and the English. His flesh not en- 
tering, like that of the ox, into the general and ordi- 
nary subsistence of man,(2) he is valued only for the 
beauty of his form, the nobleness of his carriage, the 
rapidity of his march, and the strength, spirit and pa- 
tience with which he bears the heaviest burthens and 
the most excessive fatigues. » 
Of these powers, some curious and extraordinary 
instances are recorded.. The couriers of Russia 
travel from Petersburgh to Tobolsk, a distance of 
(1) Bakewell and others have shewn, that you may multiply these races at 
will. By selecting two individuals, of any given shape, size and color, which you may 
prefer, you secure a progeny, having all the qualities of their parents. This observa- 
tion applies as well to horned cattle and hogs, as to horses, and might be usefully taken 
as a rule of conduct in this country. 
(2) Horse flesh is eaten by the Negroes of Africa, the Arabs, Fartars and occasion-~ 
ally by the Chinese. Page 213, vol. 22d Buffon’s Nat. His, 
