CONTKNTS. 9 



CHAPTER XVni. 

 What Constitutes a Good Animal ?— Coarse Cattle— Fine Cattle— Beauty— Perfec- 

 187 



tion. 



CHAPTER XIX. 

 On Breeding— General Principles — Rules for Good Breeding— In-and-in Breeding- 

 Examples— Establishing the Variety as an Improved Breed— Contending Opin- 

 ions 193 



CHAPTER XX. 



Treatment of Breeding Cows— Strange Influences— Mistaken Theories— Doctor 



Harvey's Essay— Occasional Barrenness— Professor Tanner's Essay— Mr. E..W. 



Stewart's Remarks— Feeding in Advanced Stages of Pregnancy— Duration of 



Pregnancy 219 



CHAPTER XXI. 

 Breeding Grade Cattle for Grazing— Breeding Dairy Cows— Do not Change the 

 Breed— Age at which Heifers should be Bred— Rearing and Treatment of 

 Bulls 254 



CHAPTER XXn. 

 Rearing Stock Calves — ^Their Treatment — Calves for Veal — Calves Running with the 

 Cows — Handling Young Anknals — Shelter — Rearing Thorough bred Heifers— In- 

 fluencing the Sex of Calves 2(i7 



CHAPTER XXIII. 

 Beef Cattle — Differences in Breed — Regularity of Condition — Proper Ages for Fat- 

 tening — Modes of Feeding— Shape of Fat Cattle — Cattle in the London Mai'k- 

 ets, by Mr. A. B. Allen — Transportation of Stock to Market — Railway Cattle 

 Yards 378 



CHAPTER XXIV. 

 Working Oxen — Rearing, Matching, and Training— Devons and Herefords the Best 

 Breeds for Labor 293 



CHAPTER XXV. 

 Cattle Food— The Gr.isses— Full Peed and Water— Shade in Pastures— Change of 

 Pastures- Winter Forage, and Care of Neat Stock— What Winter Feeding and 

 Care of Stock Should be— Barns and Sheds 297 



CHAPTER XXVI. 

 Summer Food for Dairy Cows— Pastures— Soiling— Proper Soiling Crops— The Best 

 Kind of Corn for Soiling— Mr. E. W. Stewart's Experunents— Condition of Ani- 

 mals Soiled— Eflfect of Soiling upon the Product of Milk— Saving in Fences- 

 Saving in Manure— Saving in Land— Method of Feeding— Arrangement of Ani- 

 mals—Another Experiment— Fall Feeding— Winter Feeding 309 



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