Cattle Breeds and Their Origin

by David Roberts

This special reprint edition of “Cattle Breeds and Their Origin” was written by David Roberts in 1916 and delves into cattle breed and their origins. Some of the topics covered include Branches of Cow Study, The Breeds of Cattle in America, The Dairy Breeds, The Beef Breeds, Selecting a Breed of Cattle, A Model Dairy Barn, and more. Also features lots of wonderful old photographs. This rare old gem will be a wonderfully thoughtful gift for anybody interested in the history of cattle ranching, or in agricultural history in general. IMPORTANT NOTE – Please read BEFORE buying! THIS BOOK IS A REPRINT. IT IS NOT AN ORIGINAL COPY. This book is a reprint edition and is a perfect facsimile of the original book. As a result, some characters and images might suffer from slight imperfections, blurring, or minor shadows in the page background, due to the scanning process. This book appears exactly as it did when it was first printed.

186 pages, Paperback

Published July 6, 2017

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.
David Roberts is an English editor and novelist.
Roberts worked for several years as a book editor at Chatto and Windus, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, and Michael O'Mara Books. Since 2000 he has been a full-time writer, best known for a series of crime novels set during the late 1930s, and featuring the joint adventures of Lord Edward Corinth and Verity Browne. The novels use actual historical events as a backdrop and there is an Author's Note at the back of the books briefly outlining what happened to the historical characters subsequently.
Publishers Weekly has described his novels as "well-researched" and "first-rate fun".