It is easy to be smart upon corpulent oxen or unwieldy* pigs, and to protest against fat
... cattle shows, as giving vulgar turn to agricultural enterprise. _ ulgar, or not vulgar, the feeding of stock is the mainspring of improved husbandry. On the extent to which well-fed stock is kept chiefly depends the measure of abundance, with which the British consumer will be supplied with meat and grain from British soils. And from our own soil, after all, must come our principal supplies ...