VIII. TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



CATTLE DEPARTMENT. 



THE VARIOUS BREKDS. 



Pagb. 

 The Short-horns. Their Characteristics. Climate Adapted to the 

 Short-horns. The Herefords. As a Dairy Cow. As a Working 

 Ox. As a Beef Animal. Aberdeen-Angus. Characteristics. 

 The Devons. Description. The Ayrshires. As a Dairy Cow. 

 As a Beef Animal. The Jerseys. Their Characteristics. The 

 Red Polls. The Holsteins and their Characteristics 271 



DISEASES. 



,'^tomatitis. Sore Throat. Choking. Hoven, Tympanitis, or Bloat- 

 ing. Indigestion. Colic. Eoss of Cud. Diarrhea. Dysentery. 

 White Scours. Inflammation of the Bowels. Worms. Jaundice. 

 Eiver Diseases. Peritonitis. Pleurisy. Pneumonia. Bloody 

 Urine. Contagious Abortion. Mange or Itch. Eousiness. Etc. 298 



GENERAE TOPICS. 



Dehorning Cattle. Use of the Separator. How to Take Care of 

 Milk. The Aeration of Milk. Birth and after-birth 335 



SHEEP HUSBANDRY. 



THE VARIOUS BREEDS. 



Descriptions of the Southdowns, the French Merinoes, the Cheviots, 

 the American Merinoes, the Shropshires, the Black-Faced Scotch, 

 the Oxford-Downs, the Hampshire-Downs, the Dorsets, the Ein- 

 colns, the Eeicesters, the Cotswolds, and the Cross-Bred Sheep . . 351 



DISEASES. 



Constipation or Costiveness. Diarrhea. Dysentery. Inflammation 

 of the Bowels. Hoven. Cold or Catarrh. Bronchitis. Inflam- 

 mation of the Eungs. Influenza. Congestion of the Eiver. 

 Inflammation of the Eiver. Poisoning by Sheep Laurel. Injur- 

 ious Effects of Plaster and Eime. Inflammation of the Bladder. 

 Inflammation of the Brain. Water on the Brain. Staggers. 

 Contagious Foot-Rot. Common Foot-Rot or Gravel. The Sheep 

 Gad-fly. The Sheep Eouse. Scab Insect. Castration. Tape 

 Worms. Spasmodic Colic. Constipation in Eambs 375 



