THE DAIBY OF THE FARM 



INTRODUCTION. 



A BOOK on Dairy Husbandry ought to describe the 

 management of the farm so far as that is directed to the 

 production of milk, as well as the processes of the dairy 

 by which that milk is made to yield its various market- 

 able products. 



The present Handbook is, however, one of a series ; and 

 some of the topics included in an extended review of dairy 

 farming have been discussed elsewhere. The particular 

 management both of breeding stock and of the crops 

 cultivated for their food has already been described. In 

 the Handbook of the Livestock of the Farm, also, there 

 are chapters on dairy and other breeds of cattle, and short 

 instructions are given not only on the duties of the herds- 

 man, but on those of the dairyman also ; and the reader 

 will find, in a condensed form, some of the information 

 which is more fully given here. Although, therefore, in the 

 present Handbook it is intended to give shortly the answers 

 of experience to such questions as What crops should 

 be grown ? what cattle should be kept ? how should they 

 be managed ? in order to the production of the largest 

 quantity and best quality of milk ? yet our chief purpose 



