PREFACE. 



ALTHOUGH there is no dearth of books which treat 

 | on the subjects contained in this little volume they 

 are, for the most part, so expensive as to be out of the 

 reach of the average American farmer, who must, after 

 all, when considered in the aggregate, do the great 

 bulk of breeding, and they must necessarily be the own- 

 ers of a vast majority of the domestic animals contained 

 in the whole country. 



Again ; they treat, for the most part, on special tub- 

 jects and, therefore, contain a great deal of matter that 

 is useless and not clearly understood by the average 

 stockowner. Neither has he the time to devote to a 

 complete and detailed study of each of the subjects 

 treated in this work. ^Jt TTJ1 1 IQ ^ be found that most 



books on Breeding ;fll|^WBHHHHimals that are 

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