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Much of the fiiccefs of the grazing farmer Jtper.da upon 

 a eoircd knowlcdre and judgnttciit in ftltCting and chooliii^j 

 thofe breeds of different kinds of animals tiiat arc the moll 

 adupttJ to the iiamre, circumllances, and litualion of bis 

 land. Sic GKAiiNG and Stocking 1'astures. 



In the fmaller kinds of domclUc animals, there are like- 

 vife diffeient breeds, which will be dcfcribed in confidcring 

 their particular applications and ufes in the prailice of the 

 farmer. 



Breed's Hill, in Geography, an eminence, near Bofton in 

 America, where the Americans withllood the attack of 'he 

 Ijritiih troops at the commencmcnl of the An:cricanwar, and 

 where the former loll five pieces of cannon and 139 men, and 

 the latter loll 1054 mei>, among whom were nineteen olTicers 

 who were killed, and fevcn wonndcd. This battle is com- 

 monly called " the battle of Bunker's Hill," from the 

 name of another hill near Breed's Hill. It happened on 

 the i;th of June-, 1775. 



BREliDBAND, in Natural I/i/hry, one of the fynonyms 

 of Echinus sax^^tilis, which fee. 



BREEDING, in a general fenle, is ufed for the care of 

 Tearing or brin;^ing up the young of divers animals. 



BatEDiNG, in a moral fenfe, denotes a perfi;n's deport- 

 ment or behaviour in the external offices and decorums of 

 focial life. In this fenfe, we fay, wcW-bred, iW-iirJ, a man 

 of breeding. Sic. Good breeding amounts to much the fame 

 with what is otherwife called poliu-ncfs, among the ancient 

 Romans urhanil^. Good breeding is nearly allied to virtue, 

 and wdl, of itfelf, lead a man a great part of the way towards 

 the fame ; it teaches him to rejoice in acls of civilily, to fetk 

 out objcfts of companion, and to be pleafcd with every 

 occafion of doing good offices. Lord Shaftcfbnry compares 

 the well-bred man with the real philofopher : both charaders 

 aim at what is excellent, afpire to a jull talle, and carry in 

 view the model of what is beautiful and becoming. The 

 conduft and manners of the one are formed according to the 

 r.ioft perfedl cafe, and good entertainment of company ; of 

 the other, according to the ftriftell interell of mankind ; the 

 one according to his rank and quality in his private ftation, 

 the other according to his rank and dignity in nature. 

 Horace feems to have united both charafters. 

 •'Quid verum atqne decenscuroet rogo,etomnisin hocfum." 



bhaftcs. Charatt. vol. i. p. 64. vol. ii. p. 242. vol. iii. p. 

 161. Hor. lib. i. Ep. ver. 12. 



Breeding, in Mnlwifery. Immediately after having 

 conceived, a woman is faid to be breeding, and this ftage of 

 pregnancy continues for the fpace uf three or four months, 

 or to the time of quickening, after which (he is faid to be 

 young with child, and at feven or eight months, great or 

 big with child. Thefe ftages, not of themfelves of im- 

 portance enough to be noticed, ar-e here mentioned on account 

 of fome lymploms, peculiar to each of them. The moll 

 rem.arkable of ta-le, and which frequently attacks wom.en 

 almoll immediate'y after conception, is naufea and vomiting, 

 particularly in a'morning, and as foon as they rife from their 

 beds ; though in feme cafes, it continues through the whole 

 of the day, fcarce fulftring them to retain any part of their 

 food. It is ufual to attribute this fymptom to nervous irrita- 

 tion, occafioned by the dillenfion of the minute veffels ofthe 

 uterus, the ilomacli fympathlfing with the part. As it is fo 

 general an attendant on breeding, perhaps, by the (hock it 

 gives to the frame, it may be intended to affift in unfolding 

 thofe veffels. Whatever may be ths caufe, vomiting in preg- 

 nancy is rather a troublefonie.than dangerous fyniptom, and 

 the violence of it may ufually be mitigated, though it cannot 

 be entirely quieted, by a moderate and flender diet ; and by 

 t jkiug fmall dofcs of rhubarb and magnelia, by lofing three 



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or four ounces oFbboJ from the arm, or by going for a (hcrt 

 time into the country. It ufually ceafes foon after quicken- 

 ing, though in fome women it continues through the whole 

 time of gcllation. Cardialgia or heart-burn, which fee, 

 pnolher frequent attendant on this llage of pregnancy, is 

 equally untraclable and laliing, and only to be alleviated by 

 rem.cdies and management limilar to thofe recommended for 

 naufea and vomiting. Colliventfs, to wiilcli women in this 

 Hate are alfo fubjefted, is perhaps occafioned by the lofs of 

 the bile, whicli is thrown up by vomiting, in Head of going 

 down through the inteilincs, where, by its (limulus, it is fup- 

 pofcd to keep up the perlflaltic motion of the bowels, and 

 thence to facilitate tiie defccnt, and difcharge of the faeces, 

 Magnt fia and rhubarb, fenna, manna, Epfom, and glauber's 

 fait:, in fmall doles, are the moil convenient and efficacious 

 remedies for f>bviating this complaint. When the ilomach is 

 fo weak as to reje£l thefe remedies, recourfe may be had to 

 aloes, of which four, five, or fix grains, in the fonn of pills, 

 may be given at night going to bed. The cullom of giving 

 womai a larger portion of food, while breeding, which by 

 the common people is thought to be necefTary, as they have 

 then two to fnpport, if not the mofl frequent caufe of the 

 inconveniences here noticed, as attendant on pregnancy, cer-- 

 tainly tends to increafe ar.d aggravate them, as the Ilomach 

 is at that time generally very weak and delicate, particularly 

 in the laft months, when the uterus has acquired Inch a bulk 

 as to prefs on and llraiten the bowels, and confequently to 

 impede the paffage of the food. 



A moderate diet, air, and exercife, are necefTary in every 

 ftage of pregnancy. Thole women thereiore err exceed- 

 ingly who live at fuch times too fedentary a life, particularly 

 thofe who fpend much of their time in eroudcd rooms, at the 

 card-table, &c. as befides the injury done by fitting too long 

 in one pollure, which they always find troublelome to them, 

 they breathe an impure and noxious air, whence proceed 

 head-achs, ficknefs, taintings, and a train of nervous fymp- 

 toms, which not unfrequently lead on to abortion. 



Breeding, in Rural Economy, the art or fcience of 

 raifing different forts of live flock, in the bell and moll per- 

 fedl manner. This is a branch of the art of hufbandry, on 

 which great attention has lately been bellowed, but which 

 probably depends on principles and circumllances that are 

 not yet fully inveftigated or underflood. Much improve- 

 ment has, however, been effefted in the railing of almoft 

 every kind of live flock, fince the nature and means of its 

 fupport have been better known and more abundantly pro- 

 vided. The greatly increafed demand for the animals, either 

 in confequence of their ufefulnefs for the purpofes of labour 

 or thofe of fapplying the food of mankind, has probably 

 had much effetl in promoting this fort of improvement, as 

 rendering it more an objett to the breeding as well as graz- 

 ing farmer. It has been well remarked by the author of 

 " Pradlical Agriculture," that notwithllandlng much has 

 been done in different dlftritls, in bringing diflercnt breeds 

 of different forts of live flock to a greater ftate of perfee'ition, 

 much ttill remains to be effcrted ; and that it is probably far 

 from having reached that point to which it is capable of being 

 carried, by the judicious combination of the bell and molt 

 appropriate breeds of domeftic animals, with the improve- 

 ments in the cultivation of herbage, or other forts of green 

 food for their fupport. To fully explain the means of ac- 

 complilliing luch improvements in every fort of ilock, many ad- 

 ditional fatts and experiments arc, however, ncceffary. All 

 that can be done at prefent is, perhaps, that of prcfentlng 

 the farmer with a few hints and direftions, which may fcrve 

 as guides in conduCling the bufinefs. 

 In purfuing attempts of this nature to any extent, Mr. Mid- 

 I dletoa 



