CATTLE. 



CHARACTERISTICS OF THE VARIOUS BREEDS. 

 Their Diseases and How to Cure Them. 



DISCUSSIONS ON, SII.OS AND ENSILAGE, THE USE OB 



THE SEPARATOR, AND THE CARE OF MILK. 



A DESCRIPTION OF AERATING MILK. 



BEAT cattle have been the useful and cherished companions of 

 mankind from the earliest date of history. The great regard and 

 esteem the ancients had for this useful animal is shown by the fact 

 that Moses on his return from Mt. Sinai found the Israelite wan- 

 derers worshipping a golden calf. The Egyptians worshipped an ox, 

 Apis, the magnificent tomb of which has been recently discovered. Job, 

 in his days of prosperity, was the owner of one thousand yokes of oxen. 

 Homer, who lived eighteen hundred years before the Christian era, 

 wrote of the noble bullocks with ' 'golden knobs on the tips of their 

 horns. 



In the modern world there has been great improvement in the dis- 

 tinctive characteristics of cattle. By gradual and natural progress each 

 nation throughout western Europe has developed a grade of cattle dis- 

 tinctly its own. The Moors of Spain raised cattle from which descended 

 the savage and headstrong bulls used in the arena of bull-fights and 

 picadores. The islands south of England have produced the Jerseys, 

 the Alderneys, and the Guernseys, while Holland has given us the 

 large, noble Holstein or Dutch cattle, and England has produced for her 

 beef-lovinp lords the Durhams. 



