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CATTLE-BREEDING. 



work of breeding. It is, in short, the theory of 

 breeding, and under that term I shall attempt 

 so much of an account of it as seems to me 

 useful to the practical breeder in his ordinary 

 course of breeding. 



Science is "knowledge systematized and ar- 

 ranged." A science is knowledge in some one 

 department so systematized and arranged. So 

 an art is defined by a high authority as the 

 "application of knowledge or power to practi- 

 cal purposes." Thus we see that the art of 

 breeding stands in the same relation to the 

 practical side of the calling as the science does 

 to the theory. If we have a science of breeding 

 and breeders lay hold of the knowledge thus 

 obtained and apply it to the daily problems 

 which they meet, they may fairly claim for 

 their work the dignity of an art. One of the 

 useful arts it most truly is. Knowledge is 

 power; knowledge or power, they are two dif- 

 ferent terms for the same idea, applied to prac- 

 tical purposes; applied to the breeding and de- 

 veloping of a breed of cattle this, then, is the 

 art of cattle-breeding. 



I have said that the nature of animals con- 

 sidered in a wide view was plastic. This sug- 

 gests a comparison with what are in common 

 speech known as the plastic arts. Think of 

 the potter moulding his vessels of clay; in the 

 highest department of his art he has before his 



