

PUBLISHED BY HORACE COX. 



NEW AND CHEAPER EDITION OF THE CATTLE, SHEEP. AND PIGS OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



With Illustrations from the original drawings by Harrison Weir, 

 in i vol., price i2s. 6d., by post ijs. 



THE 



CATTLE, SHEEP, AND PIGS 



OF 



GREAT BRITAIN: 



BEING 



.A. SEIR/IIES OIF 1 -A-IR/TIOLimS 



ON THE VARIOUS 



BREEDS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM, THEIR HISTORY, 

 MANAGEMENT, &c. 



Edited by the late JOHN COLEMAN, 



Editor of the Farm Department of " The Field," and formerly Professor of Agriculture at the R y 

 Agricultural College, Cirencester. 



CONTENTS. 



THE CATTLE OF GBEAT BBITAIN. 



XII. Galloway Cattle. By Gilbert Murray. 



By Gilbert 



Introductory-. 



Breeding and General Management. 

 Principles of Feeding and Value of Different 

 Kinds of Food. 



IV. Buildings and the Management of Manure. 

 V. Dairy Management, the Milk Trade, &c. 

 VI. Shorthorns. By John Thornton. 

 VII. The Hereford Breed of Cattle. By T. Duck- 



VIII. Devon' Breed of Cattle. By Lieut.-Col. J. T. 



Davy. 



IX. The Longhorns. By Gilbert Murray. 

 X. The Sussex Breed of Cattle. By A. Heas- 



man. 



XL Norfolk and Suffolk Red-Polled Cattle. By 

 Thomas Fulcher. 



THE SHEEP OF 

 I. Introductory. 



II. The Management of Ewes up to Lambing. 

 III. Preparations for and Attention during 



Lambing. 



Management from Birth to Weaning. 

 From Weaning to Market. 

 On Wool. 

 Leicester Sheep. 



Border Leicesters. By John Usher. 

 Cotswold Sheep. 

 Long-Woolled Lincoln Sheep. 

 The Devon Long- Wools. By Joseph Darby. 

 Romney Marsh Sheep. 

 Southdown Sheep. 



IV. 

 V. 



VI. 



VII. 



VIII. 



IX. 



X. 



XL 



XII. 



XIII. 



XIII. The Angus-Aberdeen Cattle. 



XIV. The Ayrshire Breed of Cattle. 



Murray. 



XV. West Highland Cattle. By John Robertson. 

 XVI. The Glamorgan Breed of Cattle. By 



Morgan Evans. 

 XVII. Pembrokeshire or Castlemartin Cattle. By 



Morgan Evans. 



XVIII. The Anglesea Cattle. By Morgan Evans. 

 XIX. The Kerry Breed of Cattle. By the late 



R. O. Pringle. 

 XX. The Jersey Breed of Cattle. By John M. 



XXI. The Guernsey Breed of Cattle. By "A 

 Native." 



GBEAT BBITAIN. 



XIV. The Hampshire or West Country Down 



Sheep. By E. P. Squarey. 

 XV. Shropshire Sheep. 

 XVI. Oxfordshire Down Sheep. By Messrs. A. 



F. M. Druce and C. Hobbs. 

 XVII. The Roscommon Sheep. By he late R. O. 



Pringle. 



XVIII. Negrette Merino Sheep. 

 XIX. Exmoor Sheep. 

 XX. The Black-faced or Scotch Mountain Sheep. 



XXI. Cheviot Sheep. J3y John^Usher. 

 He 



mntain Sheep. By Morgan 

 XXIV. The Radnor Sheep._ By^ Morgan Evans. 



XXII. Dorset Horned Sheep. By Joseph Darby. 

 XXIII. Welsh Mountain Sheep. By Morgan Evans. 



XXV. Herdwick Sheep. By H. A. Spedding. 



THE PIGS OF GBEAT BBITAIN. 



I. Introductory. 

 II. The Berkshire Pig. 



III. Black Suffolk Pigs. 



IV. Large White Breed of Pigs. 



V. Small White Pigs. 

 VI. Middle Bred White Pigs. 

 VII. The Black Dorset Pig. 

 VIII. The Tamworth Pig. 



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