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 LIVE STOCK HANDBOOKS.

The Stock'breoder's Library.

This series covers the whole field of our British varieties of Horses, Cattle, Sheep, Pigs, etc., and forms a thoroughly practical guide to the Breeds and Management. The volumes can be had separately ', each is complete in Itself.

I. — SHEEP : Breeds and Management. 6th Edition. By JOHN WRIGHTSON, M.R.A.C.. F.C.S.. President of the College of Agriculture, Downton. With 23 FulUpasre Illustrations. Contents — Effects of Domestication — I-ong and Fine Woolled Slieep — British Long-woolled Sheep — Border Leicesters — Cotswolds — Middle-woolled — Mountain or Forest— Apparent Differences in Breeds — Management — Lambing Time— Ordinary and Extraordinary Treatment of Lambs — Single and Twin Lambs — Winter Feeding — Exhibition Slieep— Future of Sheep FarmiMg — A Large Flock — Diseases.

II.— LIGHT HORSES : Breeds and Management. 5th Edition. By W. C. A, BLEW, M.A. ; W. SCARTH-DIXON ; Dr. GEORGE FLEMING, C.B., F.R.C.V.S. ; VERO SHAW, B.A., etc. With 28 Pull-page Illustrations. CoNTENT.s — Thoroughbreds— Hackneys — Cleveland Bays and Yorkshire Coach Horses — Arabians — American Trotters — Hunters— Hacks— Pontes — Asses and Mules — Management — Diseases and Injuries.

III.— HEAVY HORSES : Breeds and Management. 4th Edition. By HERMAN BIDDELL ; C. L DOUGLAS; THOMAS DYKES ; Dk. GEORGE FLEMING, C.B., F.R.C.V.S. ; ARCHIBALD MACNEILAGE ; GILBERT MURRAY, and W. R. TROTTER. With 29 Full-page Illustrations. C9NTENTS— The Shire Horse— The Suffolk Horse— The Clydesdale Horse— The Breeding of Heavy Cart Horses for Street Work —The London Work Horse in Street and Stable— Farm Management of the Heavy Horse— Diseases and Injuries to which Heavy Horses are liable.

IV.— CATTLE: Breeds and Management. 6th Edition. By WILLIAM HOUSMAN. The VETERINARY SECTION by Professor J. WORTLEY-AXE. With 33 Full-page Illustrations. Contents — The Ox, Wild and Domesticatki> : (i) Original Species — (z) The Park Herds — (3) Changes under Domestication. Anciknt Hokned Breeds : (i) Scotch Highland— ^2) Welsh — {3) Kerry and Dexter— (4) Devon and South Hams — (5) Sussex. Improved Horned Breeds : Longhorn — Shorthorn — Hereford— Ayr- shire. Polled Breeds : White Polled — Galloway— Aberdeen-Angus — Red Polled. Channel Islands Breeds : Jerseys — Guernseys. Management ; (i) General Manage- ment — (2) Dairy Management and Records. Diseases of Cattle, Index, etc.

v.— PIGS : Breeds and Management. 4th Edition. By SANDERS SPENCER, With a Chapter on the Diseases of the Pig by Professor J. Wortley-Axe, and a Chapter on Bacon and Ham Curing by L. M. Douglas. With 20 Illustrations. Contents — Breeds of Pigs — Scales of Points — Selection of the Boar — Management of the Boar — Selection of the Sow — Management of the Sow— Mating— Management of Young Pigs — Exhibition Pigs — Breeding Cross-breds— Housing Pigs— Experimental Pig Feeding— Pig Census and Value— Diseases of the Pig— Bacon and Ham Curing — Index, etc. 3/6 each, by post 3/10; or the set of five volumes, if ordered direct from the ofTice, carriage free, 17/6. VINTON & COMPANY, LTD., 8, Bream's Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, E.G., England.