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a little more than four feet fix inches high, fells for 70 louis ; and 15 louis have beenoffered for a colt at one year old. The paflures are good, and proper for breedinghorfes.

Cahors. —Bean -frraw they reckon excellent for horfes, but not that of peafe, whichis too heating.

Agen. —Meet women going to this market, loaded with couch roots to fell for feed-ing horfes. The fame pradice obtains at Naples.

Saintonge. — Monlieu. —Never give chaff to their horfes, as they think it verybad for them.

Isle of France. — Dugny. —Monf. Crette de Palleul has found cut chaff one ofthe mod ceconomical foods that can be given to horfes; and his machine for cuttingit is by far the mod powerful one that I have any where feen. It is a mill turned bya horfe ; the cutting indruments are two fmall cylinders, that revolve againd eachother, circular cutting hoops being on their furface, that lock into each other; thofe ofone, plain, but of the other, toothed ; juft above them is a large trough or tray, tohold a trufs of draw, which weighs twelve pounds, and the machine cuts it into chaffin three minutes, without putting the horfe out of his pace; and in two minutes, bydriving him quicker ; a man attends to fpread the draw equally in the tray, as it isfucked in by the revolving cylinders ; a boy driving the horfe. One of the machinescommon in England, for drefling corn, is at the fame time turned 1 the whole is in abuilding of eight yards fquare.

Normandy . — Jftgny. —The rich herbages here are fed, not only with bullocks andcows, but alfo with mares and foals.

Carentan. —Colts, bred here, fell for very high prices, even to 100 louis at threeyears old ; but in general good ones from 25 to 30 louis.

Bretagne. — Rennes . —Good horfes fell at 150 livres. The author of the Conside-rations fur le Commerce de Bretagne , fays, p. 87. that he has feen many markets in thebifhopricks of Rennes and Nantes , where the bed: horfe was not worth 60 livres.

Morlaix . —See in this vicinity, for feveral miles, fome fine bay mares with foals.

Auvergnac. —Informed that Bretagne exports twenty-four thoufand horfes, from 1 2to 25 louis each ; and the country that chiedy produces them, is from Lamballe to thefea beyond Bred.

Alsace . — Strajbourg. —A good farm houfe, 12 louis.

To Schelejiadt .—Clover mown for foiling all the way.

The Norman horfes for draught, and the Limoufin for the faddle, are efteemed thebed in the kingdom. Great imports have been made of Englifh horfes for the coachand faddle. It is no objed to leffen that import, for their own lands can be applied tomuch more profitable ufes than breeding of horfes. The eeconomijlcs were great ene-mies to the ufe of oxen, and warm advocates for that of horfes becoming general j oneof the many grofs errors which that fanciful fed were guilty of.

Hogs.

Gascoicn.— St. Palais to Anfpan. —See many fine white, and black and white hogs;they are fed much on acorns, but are fattened throughout this country on maize groundto flour, and boiled with water to a pade, and given frefh, milk warm, every day. Someon beans. They are turned a year old when put up to fatten; rife to the weight oftwo or three quintals. Thefe are the hogs that furnifh Bayonne with the hams and ba-con, which are fo famous all over Europe . The hams fell at 20 f. the pound..

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