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THE GENESEE FARMER. 



May 



A NEW WORK ON CATTLE. 



We have just received from C. M. Saxton, of New 

 York, a book on cattle, of some 500 pages. It is 

 edited by Ambrose Stevens, well known as an im- 

 porter and breeder of stock, who has usually presented 

 some of the best specimens at our State Fair. It is 



NEW LEICESTER LONG-HORN BULL. 



an abridgement of Youatt and Martin, English 

 authors — but perhaps we could not better give a de- 

 scription of the work than by copying a portion of 

 the editor's preface : 



" In presenting an edition of Youatt to the Amer- 

 ican public, the American editor may justly say, that, 

 of all the treatises on cattle, none is so valuable as 

 hig. Mr. Youatt was a man of rare ability ; a 

 scholar, distinguished for the extent, variety, and 

 elogaiicc ol liis attainments ; for 

 his power of research, historical 

 and scientific ; for the brilliancy of 

 his style : and as a veterinary sur- 

 geon of profound knowledge, in 

 both the science and practice of 

 his art, and of devotion to its pur- 

 suit. Scarcely any man of all the 

 world was so happily fitted as he, 

 to produce a great historical and 

 medical work on cattle. 



" In preparing this treatise for 

 publication, the American editor 

 has abridged it of the history of 

 local and inferior breeds of cattle 

 in England, in which the American 

 farmer and amateur has no interest. 

 There is not a page in the whole 

 but has been carefully considered, 

 and, where it required, its matter 

 advanced to the present state of 

 knowledge on the subject. In 

 doing this, many works on the 

 Bubject, published since Mr. 

 Youatt's, have been examined. 

 »The chief of these is. The Ox, by 



Mr. W. C. L. Martiw, one of the officers of the 

 London Zoological Society, a work never published 

 in this country. 



"The editor has consulted three recent German 

 treatises on the diseases of cattle. The most valua- 

 ble of these is by Gunther, who has applied homoe- 

 opathy to animals. In addition to the ordinary modes 

 of practice, the editor has given 

 the treatment of Gunther. It 

 is within his knowledge that the 

 prescriptions of homoeopathy 

 have been eminently successful 

 in the diseases of both horses and 

 cattle. This method of man- 

 aging their diseases will be val- 

 uable to those who adopt tiie 

 school of Hahnemann, wliMe it 

 detracts nothing from tlie work 

 as a manual of ordinary veteri- 

 nary practice." 



The work is fairly printed, 

 and the character of the engrav- 

 ings may be seen by the speci- 

 mens we give of long and short- 

 horn cattle. We have not space 

 this month for any description, 

 or for further extracts from the 

 work ; but those who want a 

 good book on cattle, with de- 

 scriptions of the various breeds 

 in England and this country, 

 can not do better than purchase 

 this book, as it contains the in- 

 formation heretofore confined to 

 expensive English works. — 

 Those who have had no experience in the matter, 

 know little of the high cost of English books, as 

 compared with American. We have often paid from 

 five to ten dollars for an English work that if pub- 

 lished in this country would sell at from one to two 

 dollars. The present work sell* at t^l.25, and after 

 the new post-office law takes effect, can be sent by 

 mail to all parts of the country. For sale at our 

 office, and we presume by booksellers generally. 



THE REV. 



BERRT's SHORT-HORN COW. 



