PUBLISHED BY HORACE COX. 



NEW AND CHEAPER EDITION OF THE CATTLE, SHEEP. AND PIGS OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



With Illustrations from the original drawings by Harrison Weir, 

 in i vol., price 125. 6d., by post ijs. 



THE 



CATTLE, SHEEP, AND PIGS 



OF 



GREAT BRITAIN: 



BEING 



-A. SIEjZE&IIES OZET ^IR/TIGX-iES 



ON THE VARIOUS 



BREEDS OF THE UNITED KINODOM, THEIR HISTORY, 

 MANAGEMENT, fcc. 



Edited by the late JOHN COLEMAN, 



Editor of the Farm Department of " The Field," and formerly Professor of Agriculture at the Royal 

 Agricultural College, Cirencester. 



I. Introductory. 



II. Breeding and 



III. Principles of Feeding and 



II. Breeding and General Management, 

 "rinciples of Feeding and Val 

 Kinds of Food. 



CONTENTS. 



THE CATTLE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



I XII. Galloway Cattle. By Gilbert Murray. 



XIII. The Angus-Aberdeen Cattle. 



ue of Different XIV. The Ayrshire Breed of Cattle. By Gilbert 



Murray. 



XV. West Highland Cattle. By John Robertson. 

 XVI. The Glamorgan Breed of Cattle. By 



Morgan Evans. 

 XVII. Pembrokeshire or Castlemartin Cattle. By 



Morgan Evans. 



XVIII. The Anglesea Cattle. By Morgan Evans. 

 XIX. The Kerry Breed of Cattle. By the late 



XX. The JerseTBreed of Cattle. By John M. 



XXI. The 3 Guernsey Breed of Cattle. By "A 

 Native." 



By T. Duck- 



IV. Buildings and the Management of Manure. 

 V. Dairy Management, the Milk Trade, &c. 

 VI. Shorthorns. By John Thornton. 

 VII. The Hereford Breed of Cattle. 



VIII. Devon' Breed of Cattle. By Lieut.-Col. J. T. 



Davy. 



IX. The Longhorns. By Gilbert Murray. 

 X. The Sussex Breed of Cattle. By A. Heas- 



man. 



XI. Norfolk and Suffolk Red-Polled Cattle. By 

 Thomas Fulcher. 



THE SHEEP OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



IV. 



V. 



VI. 



VII. 



VIII. 



IX. 



X. 



XI. 



XII. 



XIII. 



Introductory. 



The Management of Ewes up to Lambing. 



Preparations for and Attention during 



Lambing. 



Management from Birth to Weaning. 

 From Weaning to Market. 

 On Wool. 

 Leicester Sheep. 



Border Leicesters. By John Usher. 

 Cotswold Sheep. 

 Long-Woolled Lincoln Sheep. 

 The Devon Long-Wools. By Joseph Darby. 

 Romney Marsh Sheep. 

 Southdown Sheep. 



XIV. The Hampshire or West Country Down 



Sheep. By E. P. Squarey. 

 XV. Shropshire Sheep. 

 XVI. Oxfordshire Down Sheep. By Messrs. A. 



F. M. Druce and C. Hobbs. 

 XVII. The Roscommon Sheep. By he late R. O. 



Pringle. 



XVIII. Negrette Merino Sheep. 

 XIX. Exmoor Sheep. 



XX. The Black-faced or Scotch Mountain Sheep. 

 XXI. Cheviot Sheep. By John Usher. 

 XXII. Dorset Horned Sheep. By Joseph Darby. 

 XXIII. Welsh Mountain Sheep. By.V 

 Mo 



. lorgan Evans. 



XXIV. The Radnor Sheep. By Morgan Evans. 

 XXV. Herdwick Sheep. By H. A. Spedding. 



I. Introductory. 

 II. The Berkshire Pig. 

 III. Black .Suffolk J>igs. 



THE PIGS OF GKEAT BRITAIN. 



V. Small White Pi 



Large White Breed of Pigs. 



V. Small White Figs. 

 VI. Middle Bred White Pigs. 

 VII. The Black Dorset Pig. 

 VIII. The Tamworth Pig. 



THE FIELD " OFFICE, BREAM'S BUILDINGS, LONDON, E.G. 



