History Of The Short Horn Cattle Their Origin Progress And Present Condition

Author : Lewis F. Allen
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ISBN 13 : 9781332344468
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (444 download)

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Download or read book History of the Short-Horn Cattle written by Lewis F. Allen and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-06 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from History of the Short-Horn Cattle: Their Origin, Progress and Present Condition This book has cost me much labor. The material from which it has been drawn was difficult to obtain - much more than those not conversant with the subject would imagine - and many years have elapsed in its gathering. Short-horn cattle history, in a connected form, has never existed since the race has been known, and it is only through the scraps and desultory notes made from time to time by different breeders and occasional writers within the past seventy years that we learn anything with certainty, and then in such disconnected fragments that the toil of dissecting, arranging, and putting them together understandingly has been most perplexing and difficult. Still, the work, such as it is, has been accomplished; and that a volume of this character is needed by the Short-horn breeders, of America, and other countries where the race exists, must be evident to every intelligent breeder. Many of the various writings relating to Short-horns, their breeding and progress, scattered through the agricultural publications of the day, both in Great Britain and America are of decided value; but portions of them have been intermixed with such partisan feeling, and sometimes so inaccurate in statement as to yield little of correct information to those who wish to arrive at the real truth of Short-horn history. The mass of cattle breeders have not been of the class addicted to scholastic pursuits, although they knew many facts, valuable and important. 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.