INDEX. 



PART L PRIVATE DAIRYING. 



Abortion, 49, 50. 

 Age to breed, 23. 

 Autumn, why cows should freshen in, 



46. 

 Average cow, the, 9. 



Babcock tester, the, 20. 

 Babcock test, value of the, 14. 

 Baker's, Mr. W. D., ration for cows, 54. 

 Barrel dairy churn (illustration), 96. 

 Barrels, return milk in. 64. 

 Bollert's, Mr. Herman, ration for cows, 



56. 

 Bourquin's, Mr. A., ration for dairy 



cows, 53. 



Box churn, square (illustration), 97. 

 Boynton's, Mr. W. J., ration for cows, 



53. 



Bradley's patent pail packages (illus- 

 tration), 111. 



Brand for butter, have a, 113. 

 Breeding cows, Intelligent, 22. 

 Breed to select, what, 24. 

 Busick's, Mrs. Kate M., ration for dairy 



cows. 53. 

 Butter color, 99. 



average yield of, par cow, 9. 



from silage, 35. 



from the test, estimating, 16. 



have a brand for, 113. 



individuality of, 113. 



ladle, Anderson's (illustration), 106. 



loss on poor, 110. 



marketing dairy, 110. 



once working, 104. 



packages, kind of, 107. 



packer (illustration), 106. 



profit on fine, 110. 



putting up for market, 108. 



salting, working and packing, 103. 



shipping box (illustration), 108. 



should not be touched by hands. 

 102. 



spades (illustration), 106. 



twice working, 105. 



washing the, 100. 



Butter-worker, the Eureka (illustra- 

 tion), 104. 



the Mason (illustration), 105. 



lever, (illustration), 107. 

 Buttermilk, value of as food, 141. 



Vermont Station on skim-milk and, 



142. 

 Buying cows, 24, 26. 



Caldwell's, Prof. W. H., views on 



breeds, 25. 

 Calves, dehorning, 58. 



Dr. Goessman on skim-milk for, 137. 



Iowa Station on skim-milk for, 140. 



Mississippi Station on skim-milk 

 for, 140. 



Pennsylvania Station on skim-milk 

 for, 140. 



Prof. Plumb on skim-milk for, 138. 



remedy for scours in, 135. 



rules for feeding, 135. 



should be kept dry, 136. 



skim-milk for, 133. 

 Calving time, the, 44. 

 Care pays well, 114. 

 Centrifugal separators, 88. 

 Chaff, wet, for weighting the silo, 39. 

 Churn and worker, washing the, 63. 



barrel, dairy (illustration), 96. 



Davis swing (illustration), 101. 



rectangular (illustration), 99. 



room, temperature of, 99. 



square box (illustration), 97. 



straining cream into the, 98. 



test for cows, 12. 

 Churning at low temperature, 101. 



different temperatures for, 96. 

 Cleanliness in milking, 66. 

 Clover, when to cut, 31. 

 Commission houses, 112. 

 Confine the cows, how to, 49. 

 Cooke, Prof., on feeding pigs, 120. 

 Cooley creamer, the (illustration), 85. 

 Cooling, repeated, recommended, 83. 

 Corn and skim-milk compared, 122. 



cost of growth of pigs with, 117. 



for silage, when to cut, 33. 



planting for silage, 35. 

 Cottrell's, Mr. M. H., ration for cows, 



54. 



Cow beef, cost of, 27. 

 Cows, a New York experiment In feed- 

 ing, 45. 



breeding, 22. 



buying, 24. 



churn test for, 12. 



comparative profitableness of, 19. 



cost of feeding, 10, 27. 



cream test for, 12. 



disposing of unprofitable, 27. 



Dr. Pierson on feeding, 45. 



drying off, 24. 



how to confine the, 49. 



