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Regarding some kinds of live stock, cattle for example, a question has been moyed—

ginally was. This last effect of pampering is perfectly well understood by the breeders in certain districts of Great Britain, in the treatment of the best sorts of cattle and

sheep; and it applies, more or less, to all descriptions of

animals,

The effect of pampering, no doubt, is considerably differ.

ent on horses from what it is on these kinds of live stock;

but this circumstance can perhaps be accounted for by the

different ways in which these animals are otherwise treated,

In the latter, cattle and sheep, the full and rich feeding,

with the want of exercise, has a tendency, besides causing

them mature early, to make them accumulate fat in all

parts of their body, and, in certain breeds

more than in others.

, Ia some parts This last circumstance, however, as well as the increase of size in particular parts of their body, is vety much the consequence of selecting and coupling together animals that perhaps at first accidentally acquired 4 particular conformation or size of certain patts,(By acer. dentally, is not meant that the change arose without a cause, but only without any well-marked or assignable cause.) In the case of horses, the exercise which they are eatly sub- jected to, tends to preserve them from so great a change as

happens to the others, The rich feeding, indeed, gives

them an early tendency to plumpness, and perhaps fatness;

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