FARMER'S CYCLOPEDIA OF LIVE STOCK 



Page 

 scabies, corn stalk disease, bloat, loss of cud, indigestion, 

 verminous bronchitis, abortion, retained after-birth, milk 

 fever, garget, joint ill, scouring, rickets, creeDS, rheumatism. 



Diseases of swine; cholera, swine plague, infectious 

 sore mouth, swine erysipelas, tuberculosis, actinomycosis, 

 infectious catarrhal pneumonia, blood poisoning, infectious 

 joint ill, trichinosis, worms, mange, hog louse, rickets, 

 pitchy mange, thumps, sore mouth, loss of appetite, poison- 

 ing, constipation. 



Disease of sheep; sore mouth, white scours, catarrh, 

 croupous bronchitis, croupous pneumonia, pleurisy, abor- 

 tion, garget, sore eyes, eczema, foot rot, foot and mouth , 

 disease, arthritis, malignant edema, big head, rabies, para- 

 sitic ictero-hematuria, sheeppox, ulcerative leg infection, 

 aspergillosis, pseudo-tuberculosis, influenza, scab, dipping 

 sheep, head scab, botfly, sheep tick, scab mite, bladder 

 worm, gicl, fringed tapeworm, tape and stomach worms, 

 lung worms, nodular disease — Diseases of goats. 



Diseases of poultry; roup, fowl cholera, tuberculosis, 

 going light, chicken pox, leukaemia, losses in incubator 

 chicks, gapes, lice, mites, simple catarrh — Diseases of water 

 fowls — Diseases of turkeys — Diseases of pigeons — Dis- 

 eases of dogs; distemper, rabies, fleas, mange, tapeworm — • 

 Veterinary medicines — Castration and spaying — Artificial 

 impregnation — Sterility in animals — Horseshoeing — Poi- 

 sonous plants and mineral poisons. 



Business Aspects of Stock Farming Pages It 0-229 



Stock raising and soil fertility, pages 170-180 ; .loss of 

 fertility under different systems of farming, manure value 

 of farm products, quantity and value of farm manure, com- 

 position, fermentation, preservatives, applying manure. 



Systems of stock farming, pages 181-194, general stock 

 farming, pure breed stock farming — Dairy farming; soil- 

 ing system, pasture system — Systems of cattle farming; 

 range methods, beef cattle farms, baby beef farms — Horse 

 farming — Sheep farming — Swine farming — Goat farm- 

 ing — Poultry farming. 



Live stock organizations, institutions, and associations, 

 pages 195-206. "Work of the United States Department 

 of Agriculture and of the experiment stations, agricul- 

 tural colleges, farmers' institutes, national live stock asso- 

 ciations, breeders' associations, registry associations, exposi- 

 tions and fairs, state and county fairs, stock periodicals. 



Transportation and marketing of live stock, pages 206- 

 229. Local buyers, marketing pure breeds, auction sales, 

 horse markets, shipping to market, shipping laws, inspec- 

 tion of stock, live stock exchange, when to ship stock, 

 securing cars, shipping horses, bills of lading, liabilities 

 of railroads, shipping rates, rules of stock yards, com- 

 mission charges, shipping cattle, market quotations, mar- 

 keting hogs, marketing sheep, shipping stock abroad, 

 government inspection, shrinkage in shipping. 



PART V 



Animal Products Pages 231-278 



Slaughtering and curing of meats, pages 233-258 

 Slaughtering cattle, sheep, and swine, cutting up carcasses. 



