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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