CONTENTS, 



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Hay-tea and linseed proper - 505 



L/scd in Lincolnshire - ibid. 



Duke of Northumberland s method - ibid. 



Mr. Crook s 506 

 Time of castrating calves - ibid. 

 Necessary attentions after weaning - Ibid. 

 Buds, or yearling calves - 508 

 Young heifers - - ibid. 

 Young cattle-stock should be well fed ibid. 

 DAIRYING - - ibid. 

 Lands proper for different kinds of 509 

 The profit depends much on the manage 

 ment - 511 



Minute attention necessary to this ibid. 



Must not be trusted to common ser 

 vants - - ibid. 

 A proper dairy-house necessary - ibid. 



High degree of cleanliness useful in ibid. 



Proper apparatus for -. ibid. 



Cows proper for this business- - ibid. 



What necessary in choosing - 512 



Must be plentifully fed - 513 



Modes of winter-feeding - ibid. 



Times of milking - - 514 



Summer and winter food most proper 



for 



Labour necessary in - 5-17 



Number of persons proper ibid. 



Cows should be examined after milkers ibid. 



Proper management of milk - 518 



Modes of disposing it for creaming 519 



Heat necessary for this - 5*21 



Circumstances to be attended to in churning 524 



What necessary in . 525 



Making butter - 5 26 



Processes necessary in ibid. 



Circumstances to be attended to in 527 



Making cheese * - 5 t 29 



Proce.sses proper for ibid. 



Best seasons - - il/id. 



Various points necessary to be attended 



to in - - 530 



Skim-milk cheese - 532 



Preparing the rennet - ibid, 



Colouring - - 533 



Setting the curd - 534 

 Breaking and gathering it, - 537 



Management in the press - 540 



Salting - - 541 



Management in the cheese-room 61 i 



Profits of different sorts of dairies -.- ibid. 



515 



SECTION IX. 



CULTIVATION OF GRASS LAND METHODS OF FATTENING ANIMALS, 



FATTENING ANIMALS 



Different in different cases 

 GRAZING 



Kinds of lands where most profitable 

 Situations for 



PAGE. 

 546 

 ibid, 

 ibid, 

 ibid, 

 ibid. 



Circumstances which shouH be regard 

 ed in ibid. 

 On what it depends - ibid. 

 Proper mode of stocking lands in - 547 

 What necessary to be considered in 



this - - ibid. 



Should be adapted to the nature of the 



land - ibid. 



Purchasing animals for - 548 



What necessary in this i ibid. 



Principles to be regarded in - ibid. 



Different situations require a difference in 

 animals of both the cattle and sheep 

 kinds . - . 549 



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Advantages of different sorts of ibid. 



What to be regarded in their age 550 



Sheep-stock - . - 551 



Soils most beneficial hi different sorts 



of grazing-land - - ibid. 



Different systems of management ibid. 



Advantages of each ; with cattle ibid. 



With sheep - 563 



Importance of having early grass-lambs 554 



Circumstances to be attended to in this 



respect ibid. 



Proportions of different sorts of cattle and 



of sheep-stock in different cases 555 

 Land should never be overstocked 5o5 

 Disposal of fatted stock - - ibid. 



Farmers must be directed by circum 

 stances in 557 

 Advantage of gra/ing is influenced by a 

 variety of causes - - ibid. 



