PREFACE. 



T N this little book I have endeavored to gather 

 together such parts of my contributions to 

 the periodical press for a number of years past 

 as seemed to be of sufficient value for the prac- 

 tical breeder to justify a more permanent form. 

 If an earnest effort to do something for my 

 fellow-laborers in the great domain of cattle- 

 breeding needs any justification, I may, perhaps, 

 find it in the kind reception which my occa- 

 sional writings have met with from the cattle- 

 breeders of the country. I am grateful to them 

 for many years of friendly appreciation, and I 

 offer this digest of my work in the hope that it 

 may prove of some value to them and to those 

 who shall succeed them. 



I wish to take this opportunity to acknowl- 

 edge the assistance my sons have given me in 

 preparing all my work for the press. Without 

 their aid much even most of it could never 



have been done. Much of the work of prepar- 

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