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ing notice, for it would be foreign to our present purpose to consider them parti- cularly. Neither do they include all the circumstances that relate to the feeding of live stock; for the temperature of the season or of the situation in which our domestic animals are kept, is a ma- terial point and deserves attention in that business. A dry kind of food would seem to agree better with all animals in winter, when the perspiration is less, than in sum- mer, during which season moister provision is more suitable. In the case of particular sorts, the food should be adapted to the nature of their exercise or work; the dis- tance of time after feeding, when they are put to it; and its degree or duration, These remarks having extended farther than was at first meant, it would be im- proper to enter more particularly on the consideration of a subject which has only come in our way, in consequence of its connection with their principal object. In conclusion, and in apology for the in- troduction of some particulars apparently extraneous, it may be right to mention,