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On tlie Management of Breeding Cattle. 



tition is likely to continue, as it is much less expensiv'e to 

 forward meat to London than live stock ; besides which, the 

 offal is frequently worth more in the provinces than in the metro- 

 polis. In concluding this Report, we have to direct particular 

 attention to the annexed statement of what may be termed the 

 " district " bullock supplies for the metropolitan market in the 

 last six months. 



This table shows that, in the last six months of 1858, 66,260 

 beasts reached the above market from the Northern districts, 

 against 81,600 in 1857 ; 60,760 in 1856 ; 52,800 in 1855 ; 55,200 

 in 1854 ; and 54,650 in 1853. Ireland furnished the largest 

 number on record ; and from other quarters the supplies were 

 liberal. 



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XXIII. — An Essay on the Management of a Herd of Breeding 

 Cattle, loith especial reference to the kind of Diet, the Treatment, 

 and Condition best calculated to ensure regnlar Fecundity and 

 successful Gestation, and. the Causes which, operate adversely in 

 particular Seasons. By William Wright. 



The consumption of beef is undoubtedly on the increase, and 

 it becomes therefore of great importance to inquire by what 

 means tlie supply can be kept equal to the demand — how the 

 best quality may be produced — and in what way the breeding 

 of cattle may be made profitable. 



A perusal of the tours of Arthur Young, published a century 

 ago, will show that the feeders of cattle for the butcher were then 

 only to be found dispersed at wide intervals over the country ; 

 and though the importance of obtaining good breeding stock 

 was not wholly unknown, it was not until within the last half 



* In the Metropolitan Cattle-Market the " Northern Districts " are understood 

 to include the counties of Lincoln, Leicester, Northampton, and Warwick ; the 

 Eastern Districts include Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, and Essex. 



