PREFACE - This book is written for amateur as well its professional livestock and dairy farmers. It makes a popular appeal to all men engaged in animaI and dairy husbandry. Ages of farm experience have given us a vast store of practical knowledge on the raising of crops and animals. This knowledge is scattered ttuough many volumes on different phases of the subject, in experiment station bulletins, agricultural journals and encyclopedias. The important facts on which the most successful livestock and dairy farming is based are here brought together in orderly and readable form, Not only are directions given for thc management and care of farm animals but the business end of the problem is fully discussed, showing why some achieve success and why others fail. The subject-matter is arranged in several parts of a number of cIlapters each, and by referring to the Table of Contents any subject may be quickly found. Each department has been prepared by a specialist in the subject presented. The name of thc author appears at the beginning of each chapter. Those unacknowledged have been prepared by myscIf. The illustrations have been secured from many sourccs. Due credit has been gien these. Special acknowledgment is due the publishem of this volume and the other volumes in the series for its conception, and for many helpful suggestions in the presentation of the subject-matter.