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tUfally to divers parts of the body. There is more fat se+ perated tro:n the blood, than can be well deposited in the adi» pose cells. Hence tne body enlarges very considerably, and the parts are S0O'"etimes distended to a monstrous bulk.

But be this a morobid or a Salutary State, it is now the grea desideratum of graziers, whose leading object is not to consult the Strength, heaith, and beauty of the animal, but to sacri- fice his vigour. galubrity, and correct proportions, in order to make the beast, as Mr. Bakewell expressed it, into a machine the best coninved for converting herbage into money. Ac- cording to his principle, we lose Sight ot the animal entirely; he becomesa Sort of mill, of which vegetable produce is to be thrown into the hopper, aud to be extracted in the form of gold dust, or he is a chemical apparatus which answers all the designs of the philosopher's Stone, to transmute or exalt im- pure materials into the precious metals.

Although this be the universal object with graziers, yet ac- Cording io the fluctuation of circumstances, he 1s to produce this result in different ways. He must consider whether the forcing food he employs, be to prepare the animal for the dairy, the Shambles, or the tallow and Soap chandler. With respect to th? first, we are told on the authority of Walter Trevelyan, Esq. of Nether Witton, in Northumberland, that a well-bred Teeswater cow will give on an average, fourteen wuarts at each of two milkings, or twenty-eight quarts per day. Some of the Teeswater breed, according to Culley, give even to the amount of thirty-Six quarts per day. But cal- culating at twenty eight quarts, this, at four pence per quart, amounts to 95. 4d. per day, and in Six months, to 841. Ano- ther intelligent gentleman who has had great experience in cattle-farming, observes, that any cow at all calculated for the dairy, will in Seven months milking, pay double her price to the butcher. Take for example, an Lrieh or Scottieh cow, calving in May, and value the grass She eats at 31.; ifshe SIVve from ten to twelve quarts per day, the farmer wili not only be indemnißfied ,for attendance, rent,&c. but at the end ot the Season he will have the cow for nothing.

Perbaps, notwithstanding this appearance of extensive ad- vantage, the preparation of cattle for the Shambles is not less profitable, but whether the animal is to be loaded with fat, or with Sybstantial flesh for this purpose, must be determined by the comparative prices of meat ayd tallow. Perhaps'the avarage price of beef in the carcase, is 7d. per pound in Smithfield market, Sinking the offal; the average price of tallow in St. James's, Clare, and White-CQhapel markets, was the last market day exactly the Same, So that in the present Situation ofthe Sale, itis certainly the interest of the breeder to occasion that prodigious corpulency for which 5ome of the cattle at the exhibitions we have noticed are 59 remarkable,