PREFACE. Vll 



the country, where, in the cultivation of the products of the 

 earth, and the propagation and training of the domestic ani- 

 mals, man finds, as I judge, his most honorable and happy- 

 employment. I have no sympathy with that professional 

 exclusiveness which forbids to the intellect the powers and 

 pleasure of general knowledge and universal studentship; 

 nor do I ever wish to see the day, when, restrained by a false 

 sense of professional dignity, I shall refuse to impart needed 

 information to any one, of whatever walk and pursuit of 

 life, who may be assisted and bettered thereby. With this 

 purpose, and prompted by this impulse, I now send this vol- 

 ume forth, and bespeak for it the careful perusal of those 

 who admire and are interested in the noble animal of which 

 it treats. 



W. H. II. MURRAY. 

 Boston, 1873. 



