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Title: Cattle and Cattle-breeders
Author: William M'Combie
Release Date: September 5, 2007 [EBook #22520]
Language: English
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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.
CHAP. PAGE
I. THE FEEDING OF CATTLE, ETC. 1
II. REMINISCENCES, 34
III. THE CATTLE TRADE, THEN AND NOW, 67
IV. BLACK POLLED ABERDEEN AND ANGUS CATTLE AND SHORTHORNS, 86
V. 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._)
As my friend Mr Stevenson and some other members of the Chamber of
Agriculture have expressed a desire that I should read a paper on my
experience as a feeder of cattle, I have, with some hesitation, put
together a few notes of my experience. I trust the Chamber will
overlook the somewhat egotistical form into which I have been led in
referring to the subject of dealing in cattle.
My father and my grandfather were dealers in cattle. The former carried
on a very extensive business: he had dealings with several of the most
eminent feeders in East Lothian; among others, with the late Adam
Bogue, Linplum, John Rennie of Phantassie, Mr Walker, Ferrygate, &c. I
cannot express how much I reverence the memory of the late Adam Bogue,
as one of the finest specimens of a kind-hearted
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