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Recent Agriculhiral Publications. 
The subjoined is the specimen of a breeding register : — 
No Name Breed 
Date and Place of Birth 
Where and from whom bought 
Colour, markings, and peculiarities 
Size and state of the udder 
Condition of the body 
Dam by 
Sire by 
Details of last 
service 
Last calf 
MUk production 
Live weight 
Calf 
ex- 
pected 
Actu- 
ally 
calved 
Be- 
niark) 
Name aiirt 
No. of 
bull 
Date 
Sex 
Colour 
and 
mark- 
ings 
How 
disposed 
of 
Year 
Days 
in- 
milk 
Am- 
ount 
of 
milk 
Am- 
ount 
of 
fat 
Date 
Sto- 
nes 
lb. 
lb. 
Pascha 20 
26.6.85 
3,4.86 
10.4.86 
Bull 
Black, 
1885 
315 
8,688 
265 
18.4.85 
87 
white 
star ou 
1887 
326 
7,924 
230 
10.4.86 
88 
brow 
The fifth section, on the feeding and maintenance of cattle, com- 
mences by discussing the subjects of digestion and of preparation of 
food, follotyed by references to unsound food and dangerous plants. 
The general principles of feeding, and of pasturing and stall-feeding, 
also receive attention, and are accompanied by suggestions specially 
applicable to calves, milch cows, fatting bullocks, and working 
oxen. 
The concluding section treats of the industrial uses of cattle, and 
afiFords opportunity for discussing the milk trade and the butter 
and cheese- making industries, also the business of breeding, fatten- 
ing, and selling of cattle. 
About one-third of the volume is occupied by a series of 136 
full-page plates, illustrating the cattle of the various European 
breeds. Many of the drawings are well executed, and must confer 
upon the work an enduring value as a mirror of the cattle 
industry in Europe in the last decade of the nineteenth century. 
Shorthorns are represented by the bull Baron Uojje, and the cow Bose 
of Connaught 'ird, though it is surprising to find the female Short- 
horns exemplified by an Australian cow. The Red Polls are Mr. 
(j-AVVGttT‘Ay\or’& Falstaff aiA Dolly Bo. 2. The Jersey cow is Mr. 
Joseph Brutton’s Baron's Progress, and the Guernseys are Mr. 
George Long’s Emin Pasha and Nora III. Devons have for their 
representatives two Windsor champions, the late Lord Falmouth’s 
Wolseley and Sir William Williams’s Flower ‘Ind. Mr. Louis Huth’s 
Lord Beckley (jth and Lilly 2nd do duty for the Sussex breeds. 
Herefords are represented by the Earl of Coventry’s bull Rare 
Sovereign, and by the Windsor champion cow Rosewater, also from 
the Croome Court herd. In the way of illustration, probably 
nothing better than tins work has been produced since the publi- 
cation in 1862 of Les Races Bovines au Concours utiiversel agricole 
