PREFACE. 



THERE is no branch of English Agriculture 

 which has more profited by the spirit of investi- 

 gation and the practice of recording observations 

 which have of late more or less possessed us all. 

 To Mr. H. M. Jenkins, of the Koyal Agricultural 

 Society, we are indebted for a knowledge of French 

 and Danish Dairying, which has done a great deal 

 during the past ten years to improve our own dairy 

 practice. And to the rivalry and records of breeds 

 and of individual animals on the other side of the 

 Atlantic we owe a knowledge of the possibilities of 

 milk and butter produce of which no idea formerly 

 existed. It is not too much to say that the 

 traveller and the enthusiast, the inventor and the 

 chemist, have together of late years lifted what 



