VI PREFACE. 



used to be the homeliest and most stagnant of all 

 departments of our Agriculture into the very fore- 

 most rank of all, so far as energy, activity, and all 

 the other evidences of life are concerned. In the 

 following pages, accordingly, along with the sub- 

 stance of a former handbook 4 '' published many years 

 ago for the present writer, there will be found not 

 only those pages brought down to the present date 

 and re-written and condensed, but much added 

 information on Foreign Dairying, contributed by 

 Mr. James Long, and a tolerably full account of 

 the improved practice and experience in our own 



Dairy districts at home. 



J. C. M. 



* "Handbook of Dairy Husbandry," by J. Chalmers Morton. Long- 

 mans. 1860. 



