A

GENERAL TREATISE

ON

CATTLE,

THE OX, THE SHEEP, AND THE SWINE:

COMPREHENDING THEIR

BREEDING, MANAGEMENT, IMPROVEMENT AND DISEASES.

DEDICATED TO

THE RIGHT HON. LORD SOMERVILLE.

BY JOHN LAWRENCE,

Author of the New Farmer's Calendar, Modern Land Steward, &c. &c.

SECOND EDITION, WITH ADDITIONS.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR SHERWOOD, Neely, anD JONES, PAternoster ROW;
J. HARDING, ST. JAMES'S STREET; AND ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE

AND CO. EDINBURGH;

By C. WHITTINGHAM, Goswell-Street,

18978.

d:.2.

TO THE

RIGHT HONOURABLE

JOHN LORD SOMERVILLE,

THE REAL PATRIOT AND FRIEND OF MAN;

THE STEADY, Active and indEFATIGABLE PROMOTER OF THE
AGRICULTURAL INTERESTS OF HIS COUNTRY,

THIS BOOK

IS DEDICATED,

FROM MOTIVES OF THE MOST PROFOUND RESPECT,

AND THE SINCEREST GRATITUDE AND ATTACHMENT,

BY HIS LORDSHIP'S MOST HUMBLE,

AND MOST FAITHFULLY DEVOTED SERVANT,

THE AUTHOR.