CONTENTS. Xix 



proved breeds Berkshire Chester White Poland China Essex Jersey Red or Duroc York 

 shire Large Yorkshire Small Yorkshire Chester Suffolk Description Special characteristics 

 Use and value of thoroughbred swine Selection of breeding stock Age for breeding Care of 

 breeding stock Suitable food for brood swine Care of young pigs How to prevent crushing 

 young pigs Feeding Castration Spaying Fattening pigs Variety of food necessary Cooked 

 food Soiling pigs Pasturing Salt Plenty of pure water Fat and lean pork Plenty of room 

 Pigs for profit General management of swine Convenient piggeries Eaising large hogs 

 Weight of hogs Curing pork Various methods of preserving pork Salting Smoking Curing 

 Hams Observance of sanitary conditions better than medicine, and a preventive of disease 

 Cleanliness Pure air Pure water Good food in quality, variety, and quantity Origin of hog- 

 cholera Its prevention Diseases of swine and their treatment. 359 



Breeds and the Principles of Breeding. 



Importance of having good stock The best types of the breed should be perpetuated Monetary aspect 

 of breeding Nature works according to fixed laws Influence of the sire Influence of the dam 

 Difference in circumstances will sometimes lead to different results Variability Heredity Pre 

 potency of transmission Objects to be secured Methodical selection Unconscious selection 

 Breeding of animals in a wild state Cross-breeding and grading up Art of breeding The animal 

 and the pedigree Breeding calendar Important facts for farmers The breeder and the farmer. 



Poultry. 



Domesticating native wild breeds of fowls Improvement of wild fowls by domestication Wild Jungle 

 fowl of the East Indies the progenitor of the domestic fowl Hens the .most profitable and most 

 numerously reared of the feathered tribes In order to be profitable, poultry should have intelligent 

 care and supervision Pleasure as well as profit attending the rearing of poultry Poultry on the 

 farm The best breeds to keep Varieties Their description Characteristics Merits and defects 

 Brahmas Light Brahmas Dark Brahmas Cochins Buff Cochins Black Cochins White Co 

 chins Partridge Cochins Pea-combed Partridge Cochins Silky Cochins or Emu Fowls Leg 

 horns Brown Leghorns White Leghorns Rose-combed White Leghorns Dominique Leghorns 

 Black Leghorns Hamburgs Silver Penciled Hamburgs Silver Spangled Hamburgs Golden 

 Spangled Hamburgs Black Hamburgs White Hamburgs Games Their close resemblance to the 

 Gallus Bankiva or Wild Jungle fowl of India Black-breasted Red Games Brown-Red Games Sil 

 ver Duckwing Games Yellow Duckwing Games Ginger-Red Games Red Pile Games White Pile 

 Games White Games White Henny Games Black Games Blue Games Gray Games Spangled 

 Games Spanish fowls Black Spanish Minorca or Red-faced Black Spanish Anconas White 

 Spanish Andalusians Polish Fowls White-crested Black Polish Black-crested White Polish 

 Golden Polish Bearded Golden Polish Silver Polish Bearded Silver Polish White Polish 

 Bearded White Polish Black Sumatras French breeds Houdans Crevecoeurs La Fleche La 

 Bresse Bredas or Guelders Dorkings Silver Gray Dorkings Colored Dorkings White Dor 

 kings Cuckoo Dorkings Dominiques Plymouth Rocks Black Javas Mottled Javas Malays 

 Russians Sultans Silkies Dumpies or Creepers Rumpless Fowls Frizzled Fowls The Gray 

 Livonian Fowl Bantams Game Bantams Rose-combed Black Bantams Rose- combed White 

 Bantams Booted White Bantams Golden Seabright Bantams Silver Seabright Bantams Japan 

 ese Bantams Nankin Bantams Pekin Bantams General management of poultry Winter care of 

 fowls Summer care Incubation Rearing chickens artificially Incubators and their management 

 Fattening poultry Profits of poultry keeping Poultry houses Diseases of poultry. 439 



Turkeys, Water Fowls, Pigeons, etc. 



Turkeys The wild turkey Varieties The mammoth Bronze White Holland Black Buff Slate 

 Narragansett Crested turkey Rearing and general management Profits Diseases Ducks Wild 

 ducks Varieties Aylesbury Pekin Rouen Cayuga White-crested Muscovy The Black East 

 Indian Mandarin Carolina Their general management Geese Varieties Toulouse Embden 

 Canada Chinese Their management Swans Varieties Rearing Pigeons Varieties Rearing 

 and general management Guinea fowl Pea fowl Pheasants Quails Description and general 

 management. 608 



Dogs Useful to the Farmer. 



The value of a good dog on the farm Dogs useful to the shepherd Dogs should be thoroughbred as 

 well as other farm animals Useless curs should be exterminated Varieties most useful Intelli- 



