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338 Shew of Prize Tattle(Dee.

the produce of tbeir farms, we Should have had a very res- pectable addition to the sShew of this year. It is certaimly to the honöur of his Grace of Bedford, and Mr. Westear, that 50 many prizes Should have been assigned for the animals they have exhibited, butit should be recollected, that with So litile opposition, their praise 1s rather of a negative kind, for& might be the case that the prizes were awarded to them, be- cause they had to encounter no competitors. The French 0X, and the Devonshire heifer of the Duke last year, were only esteemed worthy of prizes on that very account, and it will be remembered, that the liberality of bis Grace would not admit bim to receive tbe rewards determined in his favour under Such circumstances.

We think it unnecessary to enter into more particulars re- garding the prize cattle, but as our attention is at present di- rected tothis Subject, we will Subjoin a few remarks on the re- quizites in breeding. We must, however, Say a parting word 10 the friends of improvement in the various provincial SOCIE-= ties, that if they do not approve of the Shew this year in the great market ofthe capital, we hope they will make exertions in tbeir respective districts 10 promote a Spirit of emulation Suited to produce the highest possible excelleuce in this im» portant department.

The question respecting cattle for food, is very different from that which concerns borses. With the latter the object Is to bring them to the greatest correctness of Symmetry, be- cause their Strength depends ou preserving the proportions un« Sophisticated nature has designed. The former, on the con- trary, are brought into a morbid state, as the best means of extracting profit from them.

No person acquainted with the animal economy, can doubt that this unnatural concretion of the white oily Sub- Stance collected in the membranous loculi, or cells, in various parts of the body 1s astate of disease, and itis followed by all 118 SYmptoms: It 15 attended with heavimess and drowsiness, not only from the unwieldiness of an over grown body, but from loading and stuffing the cavities of the thorax, and pre- venting the due expansion of the diaphragm and the lungs, it Sometimes termiuares fatally.

W hatever construction breeders may put upon it; when we explain by what means this vast obesity is engendered, our reäders will be Satisfied that It is not a natural, and, therefore, cannot'be a healthy State. It ariges“ from a copilous, o1ly, Soft blood, containing less than its Sharo of Salt."

Such a copstitution ot blood occasioning but a feeble fer- meutation, there is less' consumed, than is made; the ymph, which Seews to be the matter of nutrition, prezerves its viscid consistence longer; and by that means adheres the more plen-

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