CONTENTS. 



PART III. DOMESTIC ANIMALS. (Continued.) 



Cattle. 



Valuable to mankind Various breeds Characteristics Heavy, or beef breeds Short-horns Descrip 

 tion Short-horns as beeves As milkers Middle-horned or Devon cattle Description Devons in 

 the dairy Devons for beeves Long-horns Description, etc. Herefords Characteristics Their 

 value for the dairy and the beef market Herefords as Oxen Galloway or Polled Cattle High 

 land Cattle Dairy Breeds Alderneys or Jerseys Description Scale of points for cows Charac 

 teristics Quality of milk Testing Jersey Cows Guernseys Dairy Characteristics Guernseys for 

 beef Ayrshires Origin of the breed Ayrshires in the United States Dairy Characteristics 

 The Dutch Description Holsteins General description Holsteins in the dairy Swiss Cattle 

 Suffolk Duns Kerry Shetland Grades of various breeds Native Cattle Texas Cattle What 

 constitutes a first-class bovine animal Beef production Marbled Beef Classes of Dairy Cows 

 What breeds to keep Cattle one should never buy Breeding How to improve farm stock Thor 

 oughbred bulls and grade cattle Care and food Drying off cows Care at time of calving Care 

 of calves Feeding Castration Fall care of calves Shelter for stock Handling young animals 

 Generous feeding Care of bulls Winter management of cattle Food Quality Quantity 

 How often to feed Water Salt Care of beef cattle Feeding value of different articles of food 

 Soiling Advantages Objections Soiling and pasturing compared Stables Heavy weight of 

 fat steers Weighing with a tape line How to cut up a carcass of beef Training steers Work 

 ing Oxen Diseases of cattle and their treatment. 1 



The Dairy. 



Milk and its composition Relative nutritive value of cow s milk Analysis of milk Variation of milk 

 Difference in quality of one milking Cream Effect of different kinds of food on the milk of 

 cows Swill Garbage Milk Roots Cotton-seed meal, etc. Only good cows should be kept All 

 inferior cows should be sold Selecting cows for the dairy The Guenon System The escutcheon 

 The escutcheon on bulls The ovals Prof. Magnes system of selecting cows Good milkers 

 Healthy animals necessary Testing cows A variety of food required A sufficient quantity 



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