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a time, yet it will not, ultimately, acquire a size equal to what it would do, were it more coarsely, and less expeditiously fed.‘That large breed of cattle, which, it is said, came originally from luxuriant meadows on the continent, or rather in the north of Europe, known in this coun- try by the names of the Holstein, Dutch, Holderness, Lincolnshire, Teeswater, or short horned breed, though they acquire, in the course of time, when fed on very rich pastures, a quick growth and ra- pidly fattening habit, yet do not attain so greata size, as some of the same race are found to do, when raised on pastures exuberant but coarse.‘The late Mr. Bake- weil, and the other celebrated breeders in Leicestershire and the midland coun- ties of England, notwithstanding all their care and good feeding of their stock, have not raised the size either of the long horned, Lancashire, or Craven cattle(for these were once the same) or of that breed of sheep which was originally of nearly the same size and sort with those in the county of Lincoln. It might likely indeed