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A Walk from London to John O’Groat’s

CHAPTER VII
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Hence it received a more elegant and domestic appellation than the variegated nomenclature of high-blooded animals often allows.
When the last volume of the "English Herd-Book" was about to be published, Mr.Webb sent for insertion a list of sixty-one cows, with their products.

He generally kept from twenty to thirty bulls in his stalls.
Nor were his labors confined even to the two great spheres of enterprise with which his name has been intimately and honorably associated.

If it was the great aim of his intelligent activities to produce stock which should yield the most meat to the acre, he also gave great attention to the augmented production of the land itself.

He was the principal originator and promoter of the great Agricultural Hall, in London, for the exhibition of the fat stock for the Smithfield Show.

This may be called the Crystal Palace of the animal world.


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