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application of these animals. It is more than prebable that the advantages are only beginning to be understood, which in

economical management might be derived.

from judicious endeavours, either origin- ally to form and regulate, or afterwards to alter, the habits and inclinations of our domestic animals in respect to their food; and that, in particular, a considerable saving might be made by attending, among others, to the following circumstances: 1. The kind and quantity of food which live stock should receive in early life; 2. The preparation of the food, and the mix- ture of different sorts of ittogether*, where-

* By the due preparation and mixture of the food, and attention to the mode of expending it, there might be a considerable saving in a costly article. Passing what con- cefns the preparation for the purpose of rendering it more digestible, it need only be hinted, respecting the mixture of the different sorts of food consumed by live stock, that this is a matter which deserves more consideration than it has hitherto received. It enables one to give them food of any quality, any degree of richness, succulency or dryness,&c, To horses and other animals when they are kept in the house,

and have only moderate exercise, giving bruised corn, oats, L