8 CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER XI. 



CATTLE THE DAIRY. 



The Butter Product of the Country. Selecting the Cows for a Dairy. Test- 

 ing. Breeds. Gilt-edged Butter. Pastures and Food. Full Feeding profitable. 

 Milking. Milking Tubes. How to manage the Milk. Ice-houses. Ice-chests. 

 Causes of Bad Flavor in Butter. Skimming. Churns and Churning. Washing 

 and Working. Keeping Butter. Brining Butter. Family Cheese-making. 

 Curing. The Factory System and its Variations. Milk. A good Cow. Main- 

 tenance. Handling Milk. Modern Invention. Lowering Temperature. Deep or 

 Shallow Setting. The Centrifugal Cream-separator. Its Superiority. Results. 

 Associated Dairying. The Stock Factory. Private Factories. Different Factory 

 Systems. At a Creamery. A Full Stock Cheese. The Curing Room. Supply- 

 houses. The Exclusive Creamery. The general Plan. Co-operative Creameries. 

 A New System. Creamery Butter. Sweet and Sour Cream Butter. Warnings. 

 Wastes of the Dairy, Pages 833-877 



CHAPTER XII. 



CATTLE HERDING. 



Herding Cattle in Kansas. Personal Experience. Hard, long Winter. Dis- 

 asters. Herding. Selecting a Ranch. Fire-guards. The Best Breed. Land 

 Titles. New Beginners. Markets. Brands. Branding Chutes and Corrals. 

 Castration, 878-897 



CHAPTER XIII. 



DISEASES OF CATTLE. 



Pulsation and Temperature. Catarrh. Anaemia. Hollow-horn. Broken 

 Horns. Bronchitis. Choking. Hoven. Grain-sick. Diarrhoea. Scours 

 (white). Enteritis. Parturition. Abortion. Inversion of the Uterus. Parturient 

 Apoplexy. Paralysis. Milk Fever. Caked Bag, or Garget. Texas Fever. 

 Mange. Wounds. Fractures. Rheumatism. Bathing. Doses for Young Ani- 

 mals. Condition Powders. White Lotion. Carbolic Lotion. Black-leg, . . 899-930 



CHAPTER XIV. 



SWINE AND THEIU MANAGEMENT. 



Hogs on the Range. Of no particular Breed. Hogs in the United States. 

 Who should raise Hogs ? Improvement of Stock. Selection of Breeding Stock. 

 Management of Swine. Litters. Diseases of Swine. Causes of Disease. Prevent- 

 ive Measures, 931-947 



CHAPTER XV. 



SWINE DESCRIPTION OF BREEDS. 



The Poland-Chinas. The Berkshires. The Chester Whites. The Essex. 

 Jersey Reds. The Suffolks. The Yorkshire. The Cheshire. Lancashires. 

 Victorias, 948-965 



