CONTENTS. XVll 



CHAPTER XVII. 



The Goat : its mode of life and yield of milk — Goat's whey 

 — Flesh ; and delicacy of that of the kid — Habits : consti- 

 tution and disposition p. 340 



CHAPTER XVIII. 



Establishment of a dairy — Purchase and choice of cows — 

 Long and short homs — Ayrshires — Suffolk polled — Welsh 

 — Alderney, with portrait — Kerry cows and produce — 

 Stall-feeding, and general management .... 347 



CHAPTER XIX. 



Description of a milch-cow — The udder — Name at different 

 periods of life — Age, and mode of ascertaining it — Term 

 of gestation — Symptoms of pregnancy — Parturition — 

 Management at and after calving — Slinking — Beestings — 

 Diseases and means of cure — Reasons for rearing a calf — 

 Time and mode — Process of weaning — Hay-tea and lin- 

 seed jelly — Method of suckling by hand — Diseases . 364 



CHAPTER XX. 



Dairy buildings — Cow-stalls and sheds — Construction of the 

 cow-house — Stalling of cows — The Royal dairy at Wind- 

 sor — Construction of the dairy-house — Walls, roof, and 

 pavement — Temperature — Utensils 386 



CHAPTER XXI. 



Qualities of milk — Adulteration — The black cow — Matter 

 of which milk is composed — Cow's udder — Lactometer — 

 Milking syphon — Dairy-maids — Unruly cows, and hold- 



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