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‘The head should be small, by which the birth is facilitated. Its smallness affords other advantages, and generally indicates that the animal is of a good breed.

‘ Horns are useless to domestic animals, and they are often a cause of accidents. It is not difficult to breed animals without

’¢ them.—tThe breeders of horned cattle, and

horned sheep, sustain a loss more extensive than they may conceiye; for, it is not the

it proper to continue more or less the supply; at least not to change too suddenly, in the case of a refined breed, from rich food, which must be, of course, in a small bulk, toa great parcel of inferior forage. In feeding animals, then, one ought to distinguish particularly the breeds, and regulate the treatment accordingly; for though not exactly in the same manner, or though not fed with the same articles, yet in — way pretty similar, the refined breeds of each kind require to be treated on a comparison with the coarser ones. All the finer sorts should have early supplied to them plenty of food; and when advanced in life, plenty of rich food: Where this is not done, they are apt to grow weakly and

deformed; and where done, they will be found to be hardy

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in enduring exercise or exposure to cold, and in keeping free

of diseases, to nearly as great a degree as the coarser and

apparently more hardy breeds,

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