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COnside portionally small. The quantum of food required,

T speci depends on such a variety of accidents, of age,

ler, anf form, and constitution, that it may sometimes, and

ays does really often happen, that animals of an un-

vanity der size, will require as much meat, and nearly

be prt as much time, as those which are larger. This

ned, to has been proved by a number of experiments, par- i but ft ticularly by those of Mr. Billingsley, on the feed- i tas ing of hogs; and I have, myself, frequently found y

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ort two styes Pas hogs to consume each a like quantity i

mae of food, although one of them, from inferiority of|

of a size, has made between twenty and thirty shillings

4 ea per head less in price than the other, It is not al-

ae ways the quantity eaten which determines this

nes matter, in which the strength of the digestive fa-

quan- culty is a prime agent; and I believe width and

What substance in the loins, may be in general consider-

1 bone ed as a token of great powers of digestion. It may

‘the su- sometimes happen, that a large species shall con-:

ore pa: sume less than their proportion, which assures their A

re pet superiority beyond all doubt. of

gesare Thus much on the question of size generally; and if \ inde- to generalize still farther, although in practice, lo- u ac OUs: cal circumstances may require this or that parti-| long cular size, We may, perhaps, safely assert, that an i we mls animal of middle-sized bone and frame, thorough-: ly con shaped, is most likely to combine all the valuable i amo properties of each, and to subserve most the pub-‘ | lic, as well as private interest. Small and deli-. el cate animals, as well as very young ones, for the; tt slaughter, minister rather to luxury, than plenty;\

oat and where uncontroulable circumstances relative

wept to keep, or the state of the markets, require a small

snl HH? species,