10 COXTKNTS. 



CHAPTER XXVII. 

 Sale Milk Dailies— Value of Milk Sold in the City of New York— In the United 

 States— Swill Milk— Good Milk— Cooking Food— Why Fodder Should be Cut- 

 Mixing Pood— Straw Cutters— Values of Different Food— Steam Apparatus— R«.- 

 sults of Cooking — Experiments, &c 333 



CHAPTER XXVra. 

 Milk Cows— Their Selection— Mr. Magne's Essay on their General Character— Marks 

 —Shape— Appearance— Hygienic.Couditions— Selections for Breeding— Mr. Hax- 

 ton's Modes of Selection— Guenon's Theory, &c 3t)5 



CHAPTER XXIX. 

 The Common Mode of Obtaining Dairy Cows— Milking, &c 402 



CHAPTER XXX. 

 Value Invested in Cows — Low Average in Production — Dairy Soils— J)airy Factories 

 —Dairy Women— Love of Fine Cattle 408 



CHAPTER XXXI. 



Miscellaneous — Pregnancy, and What Follows — As Maternity Approaches— Marks 



Indicating Ages of Cattle — Diseases, Treatment, and Cures — Habits and Tiicks 



of Cattle — Kicking Cows — Kicking Oxen — Breachy Animals — Cows Sucking 



Themselves — Hooking and Quarreling .9. 415 



CHAPTER XXXII. 

 Diseases Proper — Water Treatment — Garget — Puerperal, or Milk Fever — Wounds, 

 Bruises, Sprams, &c. — Lowson's Treatise on Diseases and Cures 43.3 



CHAPTER XXXm 

 Castration— Spaying Heifers and Cows — Free-Martins— Drinking Water— Bloody, 

 and Curdly Milk— Handling— Proof— Large or Overgrown Cattle 51li 



