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This circumstance, however, is now pretty generally understood, and attended to by husbandmen at all correct in their manage- ment.

Farther, whatever may be the general condition of live stock, with respect to fatness or leanness, their past habits should likewise have some share in regulating their supply of food. Indeed, the habits not of the present individuals merely, but those of their race should likewise be ad- verted to; for these predispose and render fit certain parcels more for one descrip- tion of grounds than another, Mr. Mar- shall mentions, what others too may have had an opportunity ot remarking, that the young of different breeds of sheep separate and draw off to different pas- tures; and probably this happens prior to

their having any choice arising from the.

experience of some being better or more suitable than others. In one instance, a parcel of Lincolnshire and Norfolk lambs, dropped and suckled in the same pasture, and accumstomed to feed promiscuously,

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