CATTLE AND SHEEP. 



WE purpose to confine ourselves on the present occasion 

 to that department of agriculture -which is engaged in 

 furnishing a supply of animal food to the inhabitants of 

 these realms. Though we trust that we may be pardoned 

 for offering to our readers, almost exclusively, statements 

 and remarks drawn from our personal experience and 

 observation, we hope it will not be supposed that we are 

 indifferent to the rich and interesting literature of con- 

 temporary agriculture. Mr. Stephens' " Book of the 

 Farm "* (of a new and improved edition of which one volume 

 has just reached us) is only one of several comprehensive 

 Manuals that have been received with very general appro- 

 bation by the classes best able to judge of their merits. 

 The agricultural magazines published on both sides of the 

 Tweed may well be referred to with satisfaction, as evi- 

 dences of the spread of curiosity and speculation as to all 

 questions connected with this great department of national 

 industry ; and though neither France nor Germany has of 

 late been sterile in the same line, we believe we may 



* " The Book of the Farm ; detailing the Labours of the Farmer, Farm 

 Steward, Ploughman, Shepherd, Hedger, Cattleman, Fieldworker, and 

 Dairymaid." By Henry Stephens, F.R.S.E. Second Edition, in2vols., 

 with numerous Illustrations ; 8vo. ; Edinburgh and London, 1849. 



