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LETT.IL is more than probable, that the great noife that has been made, arts TT fofhte years, about increafing the fize of live ftock, 15 a fpecies ere of quackery which is a real lofs to the nation. Small animals cheh certainly take on more fat, in proportion to their food, than| por! large ones, for two obvious reafons: 1/, The furface of fmall| of c animals is much greater, in proportion to their weight, than| frot large ones; and as the fat is moflly laid on the furface, they| dith have confequently a larger fpace to lay it on. 2dly, The muf-| pan cular fibres of fmall animals are lefs tenfe than thofe of large| orde

ones, and admit more eafily that portion of the fat which 1s| Lo infinuated, in the procefs of fattening, into the intertor veficles of the mufcular flefh. Iknew an experiment that was tried on

the fattening of large and fmall oxen with turnips and hay: The

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large oxen ate doublethe quantity of the fmall ones while fatten-: ing; they were all fold at the fame time, each large ox brought L.12 Sterling, but two fmail ones, which confumed no more 4 food, were fold for L.16.. Thus, it is probable, that a con-# fiderable wafte is occafioned in the nation, from increafing hi the fize of the domefticated animals, and certanly not a little L : alfo from rendering them extremelÿ fat before they are flaugkh-| D tered. D D Nor is the increafed confumption of animal food the only D caufe of the fcarcity of corn; the immenfe number of horfes| now trained for war, or luxury, or kept for the more necef-| D fary purpofe of carrying on the largely extended. internal commerce of this country; in tranfporting the rude materials to the fite of manufactures, and returning'the manufaétured:

articles to the different markets and ports in the kingdom, in the