CATTLE-BREEDING A SCIENCE AND 

 AN ART. 



REFLECTIVE men have in all ages acknowl- 

 edged the charm of agricultural pursuits, and, 

 above all, of those which are especially con- 

 cerned with the breeding of domesticated 

 animals. They draw man's mind away from 

 the daily vexations and cares of life to a con- 

 templation of the course of Nature and those 

 laws which God ordained in creation for the 

 ordering and governing of the world. The 

 cultivation of the soil and the raising of the 

 annual crops which each season yield after their 

 own kind teaches a dependence upon the higher 

 power which controls the seasons and sends the 

 sunshine and the rains of heaven in due pro- 

 portion. To those who follow the avocations 

 of this branch of agriculture there is little room 

 for any other action than a close observation of 

 natural laws and a wise and strict conformity 

 to them. But in the breeding of live stock, of 

 what kind soever it may be, while the observa- 

 tion of the course of Nature is no less important, 

 there is, furthermore, place for the exercise of 

 much higher faculties. 



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