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ing properties of the various kinds of stock which they may have occasion for; yet as much advantage has been derived, in many

> should situations, from attempts made to improve hich at merely the form of the different kinds, or It pro. to acquire the best shaped sorts for the d look purpose of breeding, rearing or fattening, and he it may not be improper, separately, to so- with licit the attention of husbandmen to this carry subject. It is not therefore intended, in \ lore: these cursory remarks, to take particular e, per rshall’s separate investigation, in order to ascertain their actual! and ind the relative influence), does not permit us to conclude, that the oh cay: selection of such standards of comparison has been at all ‘ pon so ample, or so unbiassed, as to afford strong conclusions in ton, he their favour, or to furnish claims for the general and indis- | of the criminate adoption of the forms described, as the chief, not ‘ls now to say the exclusive, models of good shape.!t would be carrying these remarks to the length of undue minuteness, to yiven in descend to criticism on particular descriptions. It 1s suffi- istrust; cient to mention, that those which have been given of the s far as best shaped of several of the most noted breeds, are in many the pre- particulars discordant.‘The constituents of excellence are, 11 know- some of them, hardly ascertained ,; but were they even fully act set of known and admitted, individual animals rarely, if ever, ent their exhibit, and perhaps equally seldom, can ordinary observers

recognise, the whole.