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belonging to the Agriculture Department of the University 

 of Edinburgh, and presented by the author, who was for 

 over thirty years Professor of Agriculture and Rural Economy 

 in that University. (5) Pringle's Live Stock. (6) Warfield's 

 Cattle Breeding. (7) Sheldon's Dairy Farming. (8) Polled 

 Cattle ; and (9) Hereford Cattle, by Macdonald and Sinclair. 



Without naming any, I desire most heartily to thank 

 all who have been good enough to lend me assistance in 

 the accomplishment of the work entailed in the reproduction 

 of this volume. I have, as has always been my wont, 

 discontinued the use of the prefix Mr. I trust that each 

 authority named will fully understand that this is done from 

 no lack of courtesy, but because I believe that in a book 

 of this sort it is right and proper to name men as authorities 

 and not as private individuals. 



R. W. 



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THE object of this volume is to lay before the student, 

 in the shortest possible form, the many interesting facts 

 about Farm Live Stock which ought to be known to every 

 one who takes an interest in this branch of the extensive 

 subject of Agriculture. 



The subject-matter has been selected and arranged 

 with the main object of making it a students' text-book. 

 This accounts for the unusual number of intricate though 

 very necessary calculations which occur here and there, 

 and which will require much close attention and study. 

 It is hoped, however, that all those of the farming community 

 who may think the book worthy of their patronage will 

 find the time taken up in reading it profitably spent ; as 

 besides a record of the many common facts known almost 

 instinctively to many practical men, it contains descriptions 

 of the causes, prevention, and remedies of the common 

 diseases of stock, given in the ordinary language with which 

 a farmer is familiar. 



R. W. 



