22 CATTLE-BREEDING. 



too little given to remembering that there are 

 any other considerations except such as are 

 closely reckoned in dollars and cents. I should 

 prefer to regard the monetary return only as 

 a fair and just standard whereby to gauge the 

 judgment of the world on our work; and as we 

 are prone to be very partial judges of our own 

 work such a standard is not unlikely to measure 

 in no inaccurate way our success in turning out 

 art products. The world may, indeed, be de- 

 luded for a time into giving more for a poor 

 beast than a fine one, just as it was into rank- 

 ing Guicjo Reni with Raphael, and into giving 

 $17,000 for the "peach-blow vase," but such ab- 

 erations are rarely of long duration and will 

 in good time right themselves. 

 And so in the following pages I propose to 

 treat of the theory and practice of breeding in 

 a plain and unambitious way, but I shall con- 

 sider at the same time that I am treating of 

 the science and the art of breeding; and while 

 my aim is to prepare a manual for the farmer 

 and breeder in his ordinary course of breeding 

 and handling cattle I shall endeavor to pre- 

 sent the subject in such a way as to show the 

 scope and unity of it in its higher relations. 



