BREEDING AS AN ART. 9 



referring to their past experience with animals that 

 were entirely unfitted for any useful purpose, it is not 

 strange that the assumption that " live-stock will not 

 pay " is so often repeated. 



The same opinion seemed to prevail among the 

 farmers of Eome in the first century, and Columella 

 pointed out to them the fallacy of this prejudice 

 against one of the most important interests of the 

 farm. 1 



Conrad Heresbach, qiioting Fundanius in Yarro, 

 compares the tillage of jfche soil and the interest in 

 live-stock to two instruments in an orchestra, each 

 differing in sound ; and he terms " the grazier's trade 

 the treble, and the tiller's occupation the base," each 

 aiding in the harmony as a whole. 8 



Fitzherbert expresses the same idea when he says, 

 " An husbande cannot well thryve by his corne with- 

 out he have other cattell, nor by his cattell without 

 corne, for els he shall be a byer, a borrower, or a 

 beggar.'- 



George Culley, in his valuable treatise on live- 

 stock, says, "According to the present improved sys- 

 tem of farming there is such a connection between 

 the cultivation of the ground and breeding, rearing, 

 and fattening cattle, sheep, and other domestic ani- 

 mals, that a man will make but an indifferent figure 

 in rural affairs if he does not understand the latter as 

 well as the former." * 



1 " Columella of Husbandry," book vi., p. 255. 



2 " Foure Bookes of Husbandrie" (1586), p. 111. 



3 " Boke of Husbandry" (1532), p. 34 (reprint, 1767). 



4 "Live-Stock," by Culley, fourth edition, 1807, p. 1. 



