us = 182 
Contents. 
CHAPTEE 111— Management of Cattle. 
Age when beginning to Breed — Seasons for Calving — Spring Calving — Autumn 
Calving — Removing the Calf from its Dam — The Calf's Diet — Feeding the 
Calf — Milk Substitutes — Detailed Example of Rearing Calves — Weaning — 
Ailments of Calves — Grazing Calves — Wintering Calves — Open Yards for 
Cattle — Stall-feeding — Hammels — Boxes — Size of Yards, Stalls, and Boxes 
— Arrangements and Fittings of Feeding-houses — Covered Yards — Roots 
for Fattening Beasts — Mr. J. C. Morton on Money Value of Roots — Cooked 
Cattle-food — Mr. Wames's Practice — Mr. Kennedy's Practice — Mr. Russell's 
Practice — Another Example of Feeding — Mr. Lawrence's Practice — Mr. 
Horsfall's Practice — Pulping Roots — Cattle Diet without Roots — Mr. Ran- 
dell's Practice — Straw for Feeding — Steaming Chaff — Mr. Evershed's Practice 
— Mr. Mechi's Practice — Storing Straw-chaff — Mr. Jonas's Practice — En- 
hanced value of stored Chaff — Breaking Straw — Fattening Yearling Cattle 
Pages 225-249 
CHAPTEE lY— Management of tie Flock. 
Ewes lambing twice in a Year — Selection and Age of Ewes for Breeding — Age 
of Rams used — Forwarding Ewes for the Ram — Matching Ewes and Rams — 
Time of putting Ewes to the Ram — Number of Ewes to a Ram — Marking 
the Ram — Treatment of Lambing Ewes — Losses by Abortion — Mr. Woods 
on Preventing A'oortion — Early Lamb — Grazing Ewes and Lambs — Hamp- 
shire and Wiltshire Management — Mr. Rawlence's Practice — Shearing Ewes 
and Dipping Lambs- — Time for Weaning- — Mode of Weaning — Grazing 
Lambs — Preparing Lambs for Winter Food — Dipping — Bottling — Pouring 
— Smearing — Dips — Smear — Ointment — Time for Shearing — Sheep-wash- 
ing — Winter Folding — Hurdles and Nets — Storing, Cleaning, and Cutting 
Roots — Changing the Keep — Dry Food — The Shepherd's Hut — Medicine 
and Dressing — Mountain Shelter — Wintering Sheep in Yards — Mr. Ruston's 
Practice — ^Mr. Randell's Practice — Shed-feeding Sheep .. Pages 249-263 
CHAPTEE Y.— Management of Pigs. 
Housing Pigs — Arrangements and Fittings of Sties — Age of Sows at com- 
mencement of Breeding — Farrowing — Feeding Young Pigs — Management 
of Store Pigs — Mr. C. S. Read, M.P., on Store Pigs— Fattening Pigs 
Pages 263-266 
CHAPTEE YL— Breeds of Cattle, Sheep, Pigs, and Horses. 
Shorthorns — Prices made — Eminent Breeders — Mr. Strafford's Description of ' 
a Shorthorn — Weights — Hereford Cattle — Points — Mr. Duckham's Descrip- 
tion of a Hereford — Properties of the Breed — Fairs — Locality of the Breed 
— Breeders — Devons — Points — Mr. Davy's Description — Fairs — Breeders — 
South Hams Cattle — Mr. A. Heasman on Sussex Cattle— Points and Merits 
of the Breed — Longhorus — Bakewell's Improvement — Points and Merita — 
