PREFACE vii 



to all these gentlemen for their valuable co-operation in the 

 production of this Manual. 



In the preparation of this Edition, I have consulted a 

 very scattered literature, but would particularly mention 

 Dr. Pream's Edition of Youatt's ' Complete Grazier,' which 

 is a store-house of information, and has afforded me many 

 valuable references to original papers. 



I am indebted to Mr. F. B. Smith, Director of Agri- 

 culture, Transvaal, for permission to utilize the excellent 

 Library of that Department, which has given me an oppor- 

 tunity of consulting in the original many valuable papers 

 in the Eoyal Agricultural and Highland and Agricultural 

 Societies' publications. 



The work of reading the final proofs of this book has 

 been very kindly undertaken by Major Butler, A.V.D. 

 Owing to my absence abroad, this has been both time- 

 saving and of immense service, and I beg to offer him my 

 best thanks. 



I am obliged to several firms for the loan of blocks, and 

 hereby beg to express my indebtedness to Messrs. F. and 

 A. Dickson, Seedsmen, Chester, for the figures of ' Grasses'; 

 Messrs. Musgrave and Co., Belfast, for nearly all the blocks 

 illustrating ' Stable Fittings '; and the St. Pancras Iron- 

 works Co., London, for the remainder. Messrs. Manlove, 

 Alliott and Co., Nottingham, furnished the figure of an 

 ' Incinerator '; The Deeming Co., Ohio, U.S.A., supplied 

 those of Spray Pumps ; The Ice and Cold Storage Publica- 

 tion Co. the blocks illustrating the apparatus for the 

 sterilization and destruction of Flesh unfit for Food ; 

 Messrs. Eansomes, Sims and Jefferies, Ipswich, the figure 

 of Plough attachments ; Messrs. Piands and Jeckell, of 

 Ipswich, the figures of Sheep Shelters ; and Messrs. Cross- 

 kills, of Beverley, the block illustrating an Ambulance for 



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