CONTENTS. 1 



CHAPTER V. 



HYGIENE AND SANITARY CONDITIONS OF THE FARM. 



The Air. Ventilation. Location of Barns and Stables. Bank Barns. Light 

 and Pure Air. Impure Air Poisonous. Warm Stables. Temperature of the 

 Stable. Size. Ventilators. Predisposing Causes of Disease. The Stable Floor. 

 Care of the Feet. Grooming. The Stalls. The Rack or Manger. Disinfectants. 

 Labor and Fatigue. Feeding, how and what. Economy in Feeding. Value of 

 Bulky Food. Corn-meal. Accumulated Experience. Drink. Grooming for 

 Health. Condition Powders. Hospital. The Horse-blanket, .... Pages 635-672 



CHAPTER VI. 



THE ASS AND THE MULE. 



The Ass. His Antiquity. Value. Sire. The Mule. In America. General 

 Washington's Asses. Breeding and Breaking Mules. Experience in Breed- 

 ing. Managing. Will-power and Stubbornness. Longevity. Whiter Care. The 

 Hinny 673-685 



CHAPTER VII. 



DISEASES OF HORSES. 



Catarrhs. Pneumonia. Pleurisy. Influenza. Pink-eye. Strangles, or Dis- 

 temper. Scratches, or Cracked Heels. Mud Fever. Grease-heel. Eczema. Sur- 

 feit. Mange, etc. Lymphangitis. Elephantiasis. Conjunctivitis (sore eyes). 

 Splints. Spavin. Collar-galls. Saddle-galls. Poll Evil. Fistula of the Withers. 

 Sweeny. Puffs. Bog-spavin. Blood Spavin. Thorough-pin. Curb. Lami- 

 nitis. Navicular Disease. Corns. Punctures. Bruises and Abscesses. Lampas. 

 Wolf-teeth. Indigestion. Colic. Worms. Diarrhoea, or Scours. Enteritis. 

 Azoturia. Blistering. Bots, 686-737 



CHAPTER VIII. 



CATTLE HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF BREEDS. 



Short-horns. Their Origin. Short-horns in America. Characteristics. The 

 Herefords. The Aberdeen- Angus, Galloway, or Polled Cattle. The Holstein. 

 Devons. In the United States. The Ayrshires. In the United States. Channel 

 Island Cattle : Jerseys, Alderneys, Guernseys. Spanish, or Texan Cattle, . . 738-769 



CHAPTER IX. 



CATTLE GENERAL MANAGEMENT. 



Mistakes of Stock-men. Raising Calves. Fall Calves. Plan of J. G. Oxer. 

 Pastures and Grazing. Winter Care of Cattle. Feeding for Beef. Different Sys- 

 tems of Feeding. The Labor-saving System. Stall-feeding. Feeding in general. 

 Grass and Grain combined. Summer Feeding, 770-808 



CHAPTER X. 



CATTLE SOILING AND ENSILAGE. 



What is Soiling ? Saving of Land. Saving of Fences. Extermination of 

 Weeds. Saving of Food. Of Manure. Greater Production of Milk. Objections 

 to Soiling. Who should Soil? Soiling Crops. Double-cropping in Soiling. Silos 

 and Ensilage. How to make a Silo. Filling the Silo. Cost of Ensilage. Crops 

 for Ensilage. Experiments, 809-832 



