A BOOK FOR STOCK BREEDERS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 20, 24 January 1903, Page 3

A BOOK FOR STOCK BREEDERS.

The Live St' o'c J jurnal Almanac for 1903, just ta hai.d, is a larga and c mprebensive volume. In addition to the specially compiled calendar and diary, feeders' tables,, list of societies arid fairp, statistics, breeders'directory, etc., it contains forty-seven special articles dealiog with all varieties of live stock, and numerous illustrations of noted specimens, chiefly prize-winners at leading shows of th<s yeir. The opening paper entitled " In the Coaching Days," acc rapaties the reproduction of a spirited picture "by the late Mr Palfrey, depicting an incident of old (ime, when intelligence as to the winner of the St. Leger was conveyed by the occupints of one coach to those if another in passing. Articles on " Shire Horsa Brooding," " Schools for Horses," " Hints aa to i.t e Prevention of Diseases Among . Horses for the Army," "Breeding Cattle f r Butter Production," "Our S ore Ca'tl"," and "Pi ofessiooal D irying" will all be 'ound interesting and instructive. There is also a reliible statistisal article on " Sheep," and Pigs in 1902. Toe Almanac, the pnee of which remains at Oiie Shilling, is published by Messrs "Vinton and Company, 9, New B idge-street, Lordon, E.U.