EXTERNAL FORM. CXV 



while the power of the females to secrete milk diminished ; 

 and both sexes were rendered more subject to diseases, as 

 apoplexy, and inflammation of the digestive and respiratory 

 organs. While, then, it is important to be aware of this 

 mean of communicating certain properties to animals culti- 

 vated for human food, it is no less important to be aware 

 of its tendency to impair that sound health, and constitu- 

 tional hardiness, on which the profit of the breeder may 

 often more depend, than even on an early maturity of the 

 animal system. 



