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they are not equally well nourifhed by thefe as 
by others. Thus the Dalecarlians are obliged 
in a fcarcity of wheat to fupport themfelves by 
bread made of the bark of the fine *, yet it does 
by no means follow from hence that this affords 
proper nourifhment. We fee that horfes in time 
of war, when preffed by extreme hunger, will 
eat dead hedges , but we cannot hence conclude, 
that wood is good food for them. 
The induftrious farmer may judge from 
hence, when he lows his meadows with hay 
feeds for pafture, that it is not indifferent what 
kinds of feeds he choofes, as the vulgar think. 
For fome are fit for horfes , others for cows, &c. 
Horfes are nicer in choofing than any of our cat- 
tle*, filiquofe and Jiliculofe plants particularly 
are not relifhed by them. Goats feed upon a 
greater variety of plants than any other cattle, 
but then they chiefly hunt after the extremities 
and flowers. Sheep on the contrary pafs by the 
flowers and eat the leaves. Not to mention the 
different difpofition in different animals as to 
grazing near the ground or not. The coun- 
treyman who underflands thefe things, and knows 
how in confequence to difpofe of his grounds, 
and aflign each kind of cattle to its propereft 
food, muft neceffarily have them more healthy 
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