Excerpt from The Theory and Practice of Cattle-Breeding Together such parts of my contributions to the periodical press for a number of years past as seemed to be of sufficient value for the prac tical breeder to justify a more permanent form. If an earnest effort to do something for my fellow-laborers in the great domain of cattle breeding needs any justification, I may, perhaps, find it in the kind reception which my occa sional writings have met with from the cattle breeders of the country. I am grateful to them for many years of friendly appreciation, and I ofier this digest of my work in the hope that it may prove of some value to them and to those who shall succeed them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.