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Part V.-CATTLE. 



Chapter XCIV. Buffaloes. Classification of Bovirue ; wild buffaloes j 

 domesticated buffaloes ; the buffalo-cow ; feeding of working and milking 

 buffaloes ; points of a working and milking buffalo ; breeding ; age ; 

 diseases. pp. 57810581. 



Chapter XCV. Oxen. Three types; crossing with foreign breeds ; 

 superior native breeds ; crossing not advisable (for draught animals) with hump- 

 less breeds ; points of a good milker, and of a good draught animal; breeding ; 

 telegony and atavism; periods of gestation of different animals; tests of preg- 

 nancy; Kdmdhenu] bringing on heat artificially; feeding; special foods for 

 milch cattle ; drinking water; special means of enhancing flow of milk; treat- 

 ment of calves and of working bullocks ; change of food ; relative value of food- 

 stuffs j preparation of food; relation of. food to weight ; housing; treatment of 

 bulls; age; castration ; docility ; dehorning; general remarks on breed, feed 

 and trouble. pp. 581 to 953* 



Chapter XCVI. Goat-keeping, Utility of keeping goats; richness of 

 milk ; fleece of Angora goats. pp. 593 and 594. 



Chapter XCVII. Calculation of weight of live stock. 



Chapter XCVIII. Poultry-keeping. Breeds preferred for India; arti* 

 ficial incubation and rearing ; egg-production ; personal attention ; roosting and 

 laying house; yard; open shed for sitting hens; points of a good fowl ; feeding^ 

 drinking water ; prevention of disease (specially fowl-cholera or guti) ; outturn ; 

 brooding-nests ; feeding of brooding hens and chickens ; dust-bath ; preserva^ 

 tion of eggs. pp. 59510601* 



Chapter XCIX. Diseases of cattle. Enumeration of the common dis* 

 eases ; first-aid ; Anthrax (guti); small-pox proper (Besherd) ; "Serum simul- 

 taneous " method of treating ' rinderpest ' ; foot-and-mouth disease (khurd) ; 

 hoven (pashchimd) ; quarter-ill (gala-phuld) \ pleuro-pneumonia ; cyst-disease; 

 Impactton of rumen ; red- water or bloody urine ; diarrhoea ; mammites ; bloody* 

 milk ; abortion ; warts ; yoke-galls and sores ; cuts and bruises j apthae (ckhdru). 



pp. 601 to 609. 



Chapter C. The theory of health in relation to foods and fodders. 

 " Blood is life "; composition must not vary too much ; predisposition to dis- 

 eases ; proportion of water in blood; white and red corpuscles and their- 

 functions ; h^ematoblast ; serum ; effects of excess and defect of water in food ; 

 of excess and defect of proteids ; of excess and defect of fat; effects of 

 certain salts ; of carbon-dioxide and monoxide gases ; effect of certain food-, 

 substances on urine ; diseases caused by excess or defect of the different con^ 

 stituents. pp. 60910616. 



Chapter Cl. Utility of growing fodder crops. The plea that the 

 native cattle are hardy and need no improving, wrong; improvement by better 

 feeding and not by crossing with foreign breeds which are not suited to this 

 Climate ; what is proper feeding P Yield of grass and of superior fodder crops 



