A treatise on cattle : showing the most approved methods of breeding, rearing, and fitting for use, asses, mules, horned cattle, sheep, goats, and swine ; with directions for the proper treatment of them in their several disorders : to which is added, a dissertation on their contagious diseases ; carefully collected from the best authorities, and interspersed with remarks / by John Mills, Esq.

  • John Mills
Date:
1795
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Credit: A treatise on cattle : showing the most approved methods of breeding, rearing, and fitting for use, asses, mules, horned cattle, sheep, goats, and swine ; with directions for the proper treatment of them in their several disorders : to which is added, a dissertation on their contagious diseases ; carefully collected from the best authorities, and interspersed with remarks / by John Mills, Esq. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of thefc animals is rendered ferviceable and profit- able after they are dead-, for of it, being very hard and very elaftic, are made drums, lieves, &c. The merit of the aiVs (kin pocket-books is well known; and in many parts the peafants make good itrong {hoes of the tanned fkin of the afs's back. It is alfo with the hinder part of the au's fkin that the Orientals make the fagri (), which we call fha- greenf. The dung of afles is an excellent manure for fti'ong or moift lands. Is it then, as M. de Buffon compaffionately afl:s on this occalion (c), that men extend their con- tempt of thofe who feive them too well and too cheaply, even to animals? The horfe, continues lie, is trained up; great care is taken of him, lie is inftructed and exercifed ; whilft the poor ais, left to the brutality of the meaneft fervant, and tl e wantonnefs of children, inftead of improvin :, can- Shot but be alofer by his education. Mo ft certainly, if he had not a large fund of good qualiti , he manner in which he is treated, would bt fufficient to exhauft them all. He is the fp -rt, rhe butt, the drudpe of clowns,who, without t heleaft thought or concern, drive him along with a cudgel; beat- ing, over-loading, and tiring him. It is not re- membered, that the afs would be, both in himfelf and for us, the moll ufeful, the moft beautiful, and moft diftinguilhed of animals, if there were no horfe in the world. He is the fecond, inftead of being the firft; and for that alone he is looked up- on as nothing. It is the companion that degrades him. He is confuiered, he is judged of, not in himfelf, but relatively to the horfe. We forget (a) See Thevcnot's Travels, torn II p. 64. + The belt is made with 1 he (km tl at covers the rump and but- tock* of the wild als. It is picparcd ia Syria, and comes from Conltantinople. [c] Hijioht NatureUc dc I'/ifne.