. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness; tr. from the French of Gos. De Voogt, by Katharine P. Wormeley;. Domestic animals. later. The photographs here presented endeavor to recall them. In the following jjages there will also be found much advice that may be useful to the breeder of each particular race. It does not enjoin moi'e or less precise methods, or gi\'e sjiecial rules, but simply gives counsels of general utility, recognized, collected, and applied for many \'ears by the most noted breed- ers with fortimate results. The breeding of stock for jji'oht or pleas
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness; tr. from the French of Gos. De Voogt, by Katharine P. Wormeley;. Domestic animals. later. The photographs here presented endeavor to recall them. In the following jjages there will also be found much advice that may be useful to the breeder of each particular race. It does not enjoin moi'e or less precise methods, or gi\'e sjiecial rules, but simply gives counsels of general utility, recognized, collected, and applied for many \'ears by the most noted breed- ers with fortimate results. The breeding of stock for jji'oht or pleasure (but siieciall)" for j^rofit in the care of horses, sheep, and poultry of all kinds) has become very extensive of late, and the regions where it is chiefly carried on ha\'e cleri\'ed much benefit from it. The. raising of useful and handsome animal stock has become a science, which now actually forms a subdi\-ision in zoology. The zoologist could prob- ably derive large profits from the breeding of horses, dogs, and poultry, if closer relations could be established between the two sciences, and if the halls of study opened wider in the direction of stables and kennels. Zoology is the theor)' of practical breeding; for without exact knowl- edge of the life of animals the breeder will never succeed in perfect- ing certain qualities. But it is not from books that he can learn the prac- tical working of life or the art of giving it: he must, above all, rely on experience. The special literature on these topics is not in all hands. He who owns a dog or a pony does not fill his library with books on dogs, nor does he put in his stable a shelf of books treating of ponies. But there are many things to be told of the dog and the pony which would in- terest that owner and perhaps give him fresh ideas about them. The history of dogs, like that of other domestic ani- mals, is of very ancient date, and is closely related, in fact is even parallel, to that of. Please note that these
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