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comfort and solidity. If in her progeny, (the ox) 
strength and speed be less combined than in the 
horse, it will be also remembered, that his subsistence 
is cheaper, and his labor more continued and perse- 
vering; that he is besides, less liable to accidents 
which diminish his value, and that he may even be- 
come lame and blind, without eventual loss to his 
owner: for, when prepared for the shambles, like his 
parent, he gives us beef, tallow, &c. and those of asu- 
perior kind. How important then isit, that this use- 
ful animal should be multiplied, and that pains should 
be taken to ameliorate the breed. In England and in 
Holland, wealth, enterprize and philosophy have 
combined, to exalt the character of domestic animals, 
arid the effect has been to create many new, artificial 
and more perfect races. These are examples we 
ought to follow, and these are the countries which 
can best enable us to do so. 
It has, however, been found, that in temperatures, 
either very ‘bot or very ‘cold, the bulk of the cow is 
diminished, and though it is by no means verified, that 
animals secrete milk in proportion to their size, still, 
on other accounts, the largest cows may justly be 
considered the best. ‘Treatment, or the quantity and 
quality of food, has.a still more decided influence 
than climate, on animal growthand developement, and 
hence it is, that when the cows of England, Holland 
or Switzerland are transfered .to pastures less abun- 
dant or nutritive than those inwhich they have been 
reared, or are otherwise put on shorter allowance 
than that to which they have been accustomed, their 
qualities degenerate, and ‘their progeny with them. 
