PEEFACE. 



IT has been said, " What England is, she has been 

 made by the thinking and working of many 

 generations/' and the remark has an application 

 quite as special to the British stockowner as to 

 the merchant prince. 



By the concentration of talent and English 

 perseverance the stock of Great Britain has been 

 raised to a standard of unparalleled excellence. 

 Throughout the operations of agriculture have 

 kept this end prominently in view, and with un- 

 paralleled excellence has been also derived a 

 proportionate collateral value. Both are qualities 

 which call for regard, and forcibly point out 

 the necessity for an orthodox system of preser- 

 vation. But neither successful as they have 

 become are the result of outside assistance, 

 which, as in other countries, the agriculturist 

 and horseowner can obtain on the most approved 

 and easy principles. They are due to the patient 

 working and deep intelligence which forms one 

 of the innate portions of English character. 



