NEW WORKS AND NEW EDITIONS. 



WORKS ON 

 AGRICULTURE AND GARDENING 



ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE BREEDS OF THE 



DOMESTIC ANIMALS OF THE BRITISH ISLANDS; consisting of a 

 Series of Coloured Engravings of the 



HORSE-the OX— the SHEEP-the GOAT-the HOG, 

 From a Series of Oil Paintings, executed for the Agricultural Museum of the 

 University of Edinburgh, by Mr. Shiels, of the Royal Scotch Academy. 

 With Descriptive Memoirs. By David Low, Esq., F.R S.E., Professor of 

 Agriculture in the University of Edinburgh. 



Part I., Atlas 4to., with' Four beautifully coloured Plates, with Descriptive 

 Letterpress, One Guinea. 



In the year 1832, a grant, by authority of Government, was made from the 

 Funds of the Board of Trusteesof Scotland, for forming an Agricultural Museum 

 in the College of Edinburgh. Among the objects which this institution embraced 

 was a Collection of Paintings illustrative ot the British Breeds of the Domestic 

 Animals. This branch of the Museum has now become very extensive, embracing 

 all the more essential Native Breeds, as well as some of Foreign Countries. It 

 is from this fine collection that the materials for the present work are derived. 

 It is intended to make such a selection from the originals as will fulfil the pur- 

 poses of illustration without extending this work beyond the limits which it will 

 be proper to assign to it. The Paintings are all Portraits of Animals selected 

 from the stocks ot eminent Breeders, wherever the best examples presented them- 

 selves in any part of the kingdom. They hare been executed by a distinguished 

 artist, Mr. Shiels, of the Royal Scotch Academy, whose time has been devoted 

 for upwards of seven years to the subject, and who is still engaged in com- 

 pleting the series of the Native Breeds. The Paintings have been made ^\ith 

 the utmost regard to fidelity of representation, so that all the essential characters 

 of the external form may be shown. 



Contents of Part I. The Ox. 

 Plate 1. The Wild or White Forest Breed:— Cow, eight years old, from Haver- 

 ford West, in the county of Pembroke. 

 Plate 2. The Pembroke Breed: — Bull, three years old, bred by Robert Innes 

 Ackland, Esq., of Houlston ; Cow, five years old, bred by Mr. tones Ack land. 

 Plate 3. The West Highland Breed:— Bull, four years old, bred by Colonel 

 M'Neil, of Barra, by a Bull bred by Mr. Stewart, Chesihill ; Heifer, bred by 

 Alexander Campbell, Esq., of Caolis, by a Bull bred by Mr. Campbell. 

 Plate 4. The West Highland Breed :— West Highland Cow, bred by Mr. Max- 

 well, of Aross, Mull, by a Dun Bull, bred by Mr. Maxwell; Young Bull, 

 eighteen months old, bred by Mr. Campbell, of Cnolis, by a Black Bull, bud 

 by Mr. Campbell. 

 " This is decidedly one of the most important and valuable works which has ever yet 

 appeared in this country, as far as the breeder of the horse, the oj, the sheep, the gout, and 

 the hog, is concerned. The object of the author is to show, from practical and scientific 

 knowledge, the various gradations and improvements which have taken place in the breed- 

 ing of the domestic animals we have mentioned, and by comparisons of treatment and 

 crossing*, to prove how the greatest advantages may be acquired. The work we should say 

 is national, and ought to receive the encouragement and patronage of every agriculturist 

 and breeder in the kingdom."— Bell's Life in London. 



*»* Part II. will be published on April 1st. 



Just published, by the same Author, 



ELEMENTS OF PRACTICAL AGRICULTURE; 



comprehendingthe Cultivation of Plant?, the Husbandry of Domestic Animals, 

 and the Economy of the Farm. Third Edition, with Additions, and abov< 200 



Woodcuts, 1 vol. Svo. 18s. cloth lettered. 

 "No work on agriculture has appeared in our time which will bear a comparison with 

 this excellent, and we would say classical work, of Professor Low. It will become the 

 manual of practical agriculture for the British empire: and t h,-,ud,c.<,u, practical rules 

 andsLnd views of our author will unquestionably prove beneficial '"< ""• agriculturUtt 

 of other countries."-Eilin\mrgh New Philosophical Journal. 



