PEEFACE. 



I am indebted to the owners of the animals illustrated in this 

 volume for the use of the engravings which they have so kindly fur- 

 nished. 



The beautiful Shorthorn heifer " Lucy," received the first prize 

 of the Middlesex Agricultural Society as the best under three years 

 old. She is roan, bred by and the property of Jos. A. Harwood, 

 Littleton, Mass. ; calved May 10th, 1868 ; got by " Roan Prince," 

 6,370, out of "Flirt," by "Marmion," 1843,— "Lady Sale Ninth," 

 by "Comet," 3,772,— "Lady Sale Sixth," by "Red Knight," 890,— 

 " Lady Sale Third," by imported " Duke of Cambridge," 1,034 

 (5,941),— "Lady Sale Second," by "Earl of Chatham," (10,176),— 

 "Lady Sale," by "General Sale," (8,099),— " Clara," by "Napier," 

 (1,238),—" Maid of Orleans," by " Mameluke," (2,258),—" Helena," 

 by "Waterloo," (2,816),— "Moss Rose," by "Baron," (58),— "An- 

 gelina," by " Phenomenon," (491),—" Anne Boleyn," by " Favorite," 

 (252),— "Princess," by " Favorite," (252),—" Brighteyes," by " Fa- 

 vorite," (252),— "Beauty," by " Masterman's," (273),—" Tripes," by 

 the Studly bull, (621). 



The little Brittany beauty, the " Empress," owned by William 

 Knowlton, Esq., of Upton, was imported by me from France in the 

 month of June, 1868 then coming two years old and with calf. She 

 dropped a beautiful heifer calf two days after reaching the end of 

 her long journey. She is a perfect dairy cow in miniature, of won- 

 derful delicacy and fineness of limb and skin, neck and head. Her 

 weight at the present time, being in high condition and with calf, is 

 about 400 lbs., color, black and white. In disposition she is gentle 

 as a kitten, and a good-natured, frolicsome pet. She gives from 

 seven to eight quarts of a milk that is remarkable for making the 

 finest flavoi-ed butter in the world, the Bretons being adapted espe- 

 cially to the butter dairy in regions of short pasturage and limited 

 fertility. The consumption per day in food is about ten to twelve 

 pounds of hay, or its equivalent. The height of the Brittanies varies 

 from thirty-two to forty inches. The bull imported at the same time 



