From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth breaks the chain alike.
It should be the business of _every one_ to cultivate such sentiments as those which are contained in the extract below, given from a work[2] which the celebrated DUGALD STEWART declared when presenting a copy of it to one of our countrymen, now a resident of Philadelphia, to be the finest piece of composition in the English language: "_That to feel much for others, and little for ourselves, that to restrain our selfish, and to indulge our benevolent affections, constitutes the perfection of human nature; and can alone produce among mankind that harmony of sentiments and passions in which consists their whole grace and propriety._" Even a BACHELOR, actuated by principles of this character, might emerge into the character of a worthy, useful, and amiable man! ☞
[2] "Theory of Moral Sentiments," by ADAM SMITH, author of the "Wealth of Nations."
_Cheap food for horses, from M'Arthur's Financial Facts, 8vo. p. 258._
The author lived in London and kept three horses which he fed as follows.
Two trusses and a half of clover or meadow hay cut and mixed with four trusses of wheat, or barley straw, when cut up, make nearly equal quantities in weight; two heaped bushels of this mixture equal to fourteen pounds weight, are given to each horse in twenty-four hours, being previously mixed with half a peck of corn, (in England oats) ground or chopped, weight 5_lbs._ with water to wet it; that is, 7 pounds of hay; 7 pounds of straw; 5 pounds of meal; given at six different times, each day and evening. Add 5 pounds of hay at night, makes 24 pounds to each horse in twenty-four hours; and it kept them much fatter than with double the corn each day unground, two trusses of hay a week.
An ox, unworked, eats about 32 pounds of meadow hay per day.
If fed in the stable each head of horned cattle will eat 130 pounds green clover just cut, or 30 pounds clover hay a day.
At work, 3 horses eat in all, 48 stones a week of hay, also 48 quarts of oats a week each horse.
At work 18 horses in 12 days, eat 430 stones of hay, which is 14 stones a week for each horse, also 64 quarts of oats a week for each.
An idle horse eat 14 stones of hay a week and no corn.