Cattle and Cattle-breeders

Project Gutenberg's Cattle and Cattle-breeders, by William M'Combie This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Cattle and Cattle-breeders Author: William M'Combie Release Date: September 5, 2007 [EBook #22520] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CATTLE AND CATTLE-BREEDERS *** Produced by Steven Giacomelli and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images produced by Core Historical Literature in Agriculture (CHLA), Cornell University) CATTLE AND CATTLE-BREEDERS By WILLIAM M‘COMBIE, M.P. TILLYFOUR SECOND EDITION, REVISED WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS EDINBURGH AND LONDON MDCCCLXIX Transcriber's Note: The advertisements and reviews that preceded the title page have been moved to the end of this text. CONTENTS. PAGECHAP. II. THE FEEDING OF CATTLE, ETC. 1 III. REMINISCENCES, 34 IV. THE CATTLE TRADE, THEN AND NOW, 67 V. BLACK POLLED ABERDEEN AND ANGUS CATTLE AND SHORTHORNS, 86 VI. HINTS ON THE BREEDING AND CARE OF CATTLE, 99 CATTLE AND CATTLE-BREEDERS. I. THE FEEDING OF CATTLE, Etc. (Read before the Chamber of Agriculture.