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of their growth is slower, and the general period of their life longer, and partly for reasons already mentioned, the nature of their constitutions, the conformation of their stomachs, and other circumstances about them.

Besides these particulars, others deserve attention in breeding live stock. The food should be more or less adapted to their present condition of body. It would be very improper not to preserve in a healthy and rather plump state, all the finer and quickly maturing breeds; and it would also be wrong, if it could be avoided, to let any description of live stock get into an unduly lean or unthriving condition, from any failure in the quantity or quality of its food. Seeing, however, it might be diffi- cult, at every season, to preserve the flocks or herds, or any parcel of live stock, in equally good plight, it would be improper to change too rapidly the food they have been accustomed to. It would be impro- per to reduce suddenly full fleshed or fat animals by giving them scanty or poor pro- vision, or even, all at once, to bestow on

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