IMPROVED BREEDS. 49 



those giving the subject little study, can scarce realize. As such 

 they have come to us, and only as such we know them. 



We commence a description of the different breeds, which our 

 volume is intended to enumerate, with the middle-horned 

 breeds of England; and first of these, take that one appa- 

 rently most ancient in lineage. 



