Excerpt from Farmer's Cyclopedia of Live Stock There are many books devoted to the different kinds of stock, as cat tle, horses, hogs, and poultry; the subject has also been treated with refer ence to special features, like breeds of live stock, feeding, animal diseases, dairying', stock judging, breeding, refrigeration of animal products, curing of meats, meat and milk inspection, blacksmithing and marketing stock. Occasionally two or more of these features have been combined; but here tofore no attempt has been made to bring all these matters and the multi tude of other features of animal industry into a symmetrical whole. 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.