lean ones much nutritious food to which they were formerly unaccustomed. The impropriety in the former case must be ob- vious; but in the latter, to turnin lean ani- mals to rich pasture, would not only be wasteful of the produce, but against the health of the stock. With such, too great a change, or too rich food, of which they are apt to take in over much, might hurt their digestive organs; and often live stock, otherwise thriving, receive a check from this cause, when under the management of unskilful people. It answers always well

to put the lean, at first, upon less rich pas-'

ture; and as its condition improves, to introduce it to better. Expert graziers, pos- sessing some of the best grass lands in Eng- land, never purchase for them lean stock, but usually such as are at least half fatten- ed. They find indeed, that those who have inferior grounds, can rear common stock and make them fleshy or give them a degree of fatness at a cheaper rate, than

they can do themselves; though the other’:

cannot finish them off, or give them that full pitch of fatness that takes the market.

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