INTRODUCTION TO THE PRACTICE OF 

 BREEDING METHODS. 



WE have already seen that while all the 

 various departments of the theory of breeding 

 are properly reducible to a science, and that 

 the body of laws which we have hitherto been 

 engaged in investigating may be justly regarded 

 as the framework of that systematized series 

 of facts, that there is no less in the finished 

 rules of application of these scientific laws to 

 the daily practical work an art. An art useful 

 in itself, honorable and noble in its end, lofty 

 in its application. I do not deal in rhetoric; I 

 claim in all soberness of spirit all these things 

 for the art of cattle-breeding. I have already 

 shown some grounds for my belief in its dig- 

 nity. It is for me nOw merely to give some 

 of the rules and to show the reasons for their 

 existence. 



The outline of this practical art may be 

 drawn out under two heads: the choice of the 

 material to work on and the treatment of it. 

 And under the latter head we have three prin- 

 cipal divisions: housing, feeding, and general 

 care and attention; divisions more dependent, 



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