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duces large, boney, lop-eared pigs; Suffolk, small, prick-eared ones; make a complete change in each county, to the last individual, substituting the one for the other, and persevering in it: in fifty years’ time, the Suffolk-men would not believe that their county had ever produced a small, delicate, and prick-eared pig. Even the natural characters of grea

and small, in size, will always remain visibly distinct and unalterable, although the one species may be, in degree, debased fori: their, original standard, by inferior; and the other prapbertoally exalted above it, by superior keep. The flesh of females is gene- rally supposed less savoury and nutritious, than that

of males; with respect to those females which have

bred, I doubt not the fact; and if we weré to fatten cows, without previously having them bulled;(a me- thod often enoug gh successfully practised, both here and in Ireland), ihe public, Ebeli lieve, would be great gainers, both in the quantity and quality of the

_beef: the butchers’ common reasonings on. this

head, seem inconclusive, and merely ev parte of the custom, SIZE, as well as a in animals, is admira bly varied by nature, and thence adopted to all pos- sible circumstances of ai and human con- venience. Largeness of size, in the species, whic assures growth, a technical ie m to denote that i

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