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concerned, and if refinement be the im- provement wanted, lies, it would seem, in supplying it with rich provision from its earliest life, during all seasons, and in a favourable or not exposed situation.

For those who rear males to let out for improving the stock of other husbandmen by coupling with them, it is mght to pay attention to the early rich feeding of their own; but this might not suit with the situation and circumstances of many who keep coarser stock, and possess lands of different descriptions. In the use of their vegetable produce, such would require to be more discriminative: While they supply with inferior provision their young stock, they should reserve the better for the aged. Accordingly, it is pretty com- mon, in the case of pasture grounds, to have two or three divisions for separate allotments of the animals. Graziers in Yorkshire, and other districts of England, have, upon this principle, the“ fatting” and “ following’ stocks. In other situations, husbandmen class together the fatting stock with the breeding one, the dams and their