PUBLISHERS' ANNOUNCEMENT. 



We have now, according to the last census, a population press- 

 ing close upon fifty Millions. Every one of this vast number is 

 individually interested in the milk question. What is true of 

 perhaps no other element of food and nourishment, milk is 

 consumed in some form by all, old and young. It is because of 

 this necessarily universal personal interest in milk that the publish- 

 ers offer this volume which aims to show all how to obtain the 

 best milk, plenty of it, and at the cheapest rates. The book em- 

 braces the experience and advice of able, well known writers 

 such, for example, as Professor Slade, of Harvard College, and 

 Henry E. Alvord elicited in response to propositions presented 

 by the Publishers for articles upon the subject. The editorial 

 supervision of the work has been in the hands of Col. Mason C. 

 Weld and Professor Manly Miles recognized authorities on Dairy 

 Matters who would have included many other valuable and in- 

 teresting papers submitted, were it not that they would have made 

 the volume too bulky. Mr. Orange Judd has added a leaf from 

 his personal experience. 



Tbe topics treated are only those legitimately connected with 

 the subject, yet they cover a wide field, and will prove of great 

 interest to all occupied in the culture of the soil, while as a 

 handbook and guide to those who keep one or more family cows 

 it must be of almost daily practical use. The prominent subjects, 

 such as soiling, stabling, care of manure, the tillage of the soil, 

 the cultivation of various crops, care of the cow and of the calf, 

 are each treated in detail, and yet there is so great a variety and 

 such genuine personal experience and sincere conviction on the 

 part of each writer, that his or her way is the best way as indeed 

 it may be, under the circumstances that there is little or noth- 

 ing of sameness or repetition in the book, but the reader's interest 

 is sustained to the last. 



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