TATil.E OP CONTESTS. 
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PART VUI. 
DISEASES OF SWINE. 
HOW TO KNOW AND HOW TO CURE THEM. 
CHAPTER I. 
DISEASES OF SWINE. 
Explanation of Cut. — Difficulty of Administering Medicine. — Good Nursing the Essen- 
tial. — Malignant and Contagious Diseases. — Malignant Epizootic Catarrh. — How to 
Know it. — What to Do. — Intestinal “Hog Cholera.” — How to Know it. — Causes.— 
Treatment. — Prevention. — Contagious Pneumo-enteritis. — Its Origin. — The Erysipel- 
atous Form. — The Form with Malignant Throat. — What to Do. — Malignant Anthrax. 
Splenic Fever. — True Charbon. — Inflammatory Diseases. — Quinsy, or Strangles. — 
Rising of the Lights. — Pneumonia. — Catarrh in the Head. — Diseases of the Skin. — 
Measles. — How to Know it. — The Lard Worm. — What to Do. — Trichina Spiralis.— 
How to Cure. — Lice.— Diarrhoea.— Summary 381; 
PART IX. 
POULTRY. 
HISTORY; BREEDS, THEIR CHARACTERISTICS; BREEDING 
AND GENERAL MANAGEMENT. 
CHAPTER I. 
History and Wild Types „ 397 
CHAPTER II. 
VARIETIES OF BARN-YARD FOWLS. 
J. Dorking Fowls.— II. Silver Grey Dorkings.— III. Black Dorkings.— IY. Fawn-Colored 
Dorkings. — Y. Bolton Greys. — VI. Dominique Fowls. — VII. Plymouth Rocks. — 
VIII. The Ostrich Fowls— IX. Hamburg Fowls.— X. Black Hamburg*.— XI. Leg- 
horns.— XII. White Leghorns.— XIII. Spanish Fowls.— XIV. French Fowls.— XV. 
The Houdans.— XVI. La Fleehe Fowls.— XVII. The Creve Cceurs— XVIII. Largo 
Asiatic Breeds. — XIX. The Chittagongs. — XX. Buff Cochins. — XXI. Partridge 
Cochins.— XXII. White Cochins.— XXIII. Brahma Fowls.— XXIV. Light Brah- 
mas.— XXV. Frizzled Fowls.— XXVI. Silkies— XXVII. Breda or Guelder Fowls. — 
XXVIII. Game Fowls.— 1. Brown-breasted Reds— 2. Earl Derby Game.— 3. Duck- 
winged Game. — 4. White Georgian Game. — 5. Game Bantams. — 6. Other Bantams. 
— L Seabright Bantams.— 8. Japanese Bantams 405 
CHAPTER III, 
BREEDING. 
Jhe Plumage. Ideal Shape. — Breeding to Type. — Disparity of Sexes. — Mating. — Breed- 
ing Grades * m 
CHAPTER IV. 
MANAGEMENT OF FOWLS. 
Ooing into Business.— Village Yards— The Poultry House.— Proper Food for Fowls.— 
Best Breeds for Market.— Egg Producers.— How to Fatten.— How to Kill and Dress 
Fowls.— Packing for Market 445 
