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INDEX.

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Animals, domestic, reared in the U. States	9
their number and value	9
their improvement	10
adaptation to various objects	10
general form and characteristics	13
the lungs	14
respiration	14
effects of	17
perspiration	18
food which supplies respiration	18
circumstances which augment respiration	19
food	21
purposes fulfilled by food	22
nutritive qualities for various animals	23
profit of feeding	23
See Cattle, Sheep, &c.
Ass, the	181
varieties	181
characteristics	182
breeding in the U. States	182
as a beast of burden	183

Breeding—principles of	11
See Cattle, Sheep, &c.

Cattle—neat or horned	26
various domestic breeds	26
native cattle	27
Devons	29
short horns	30
Herefords	35
Ayrshire	38
management of calves	39
breeding	41
breaking steers	42
management of oxen	42
fattening and stall-feeding	45
Diseases	41, 50
hoven	50
choking	52
inflammation of stomach	52
mange or scab	52
horn-ail—jaundice	53
mad-itch—bloody murrain	54
hoof-ail	55
loss of cud—scours or diarrhœa—warbles or grubs—wounds—puerperal or milk-fever	56
caked bags—garget—sore teats—warts	57
Cows for dairy	60
management of	61
milking	61
See Dairy.
Comparative value of oxen and horses	190
Churns	69

Dairy, the	60
Dairy—selection and management of cows	60, 61
milking	61
properties of milk	62
variations in	63
cream—clouted ditto	65
Making butter from sour, sweet, and clouted cream	66, 67
sourness of cream	68
quickness in churning	68
over-churning	69
temperature of milk and cream	69
advantages of churn'g the whole	69
cleanliness in churning	70
premium butter, how made	70
Orange county do. do.	71
Making cheese, how effected	72
creamed and uncreamed	73
buttermilk cheese	73
whey do.	74
vegetable substances added	74
preparation of rennet	75
different qualities of cheese	77
warming the milk	77
quality of rennet	78
quantity of rennet	78
treatment of curd	79
separation of whey	80
cheese, salting	81
addition of cream	81
size of cheese	81
mode of curing	82
ammoniacal cheese	82
inoculating do.	82
premium cheese, how made	83
Ducks—see Poultry.

Farm dogs	207-214
Feeding defined	21
See Cattle, Sheep, &c.
Food, comparative nutritive qualities of	22
how given, purposes fulfilled by it	22
changes in	24
See Animals, Products, &c.

Geese—see Poultry.
Guinea-hen—see ditto.

Hens—see Poultry.
Hinny—see Ass.
Horse—the Arabian and Barb	138
the English	139
American	141
Arabians in America	139, 140
Ranger, the Barb—Bussorah—Narraganset pacers—Messenger, imported	140
Morgan horses	142
Canadian and Spanish	143
Conestoga	143
Norman	144
Cart, Cleveland bay, Belfounder	145
Eclipse, American	141
points of	146
habits	147
breeding	148
management of colts	149
breaking	150
longevity, feeding	151
Diseases	154
glanders	154
lampas, heaves, &c.	155
catarrh or distemper, spasmodic colic	156
flatulent colic	158
inflammation of bowels	159
physicking	162
worms	164
bots	164
wind-galls	165
the fetlock	166
cutting	166
sprain of the coffin-joint—ringbone	167
enlargement of the hock	168
curb	168
bone-spavin—swelled legs	170
grease	171
setons	173
founder—poison from weeds	174
inflammation of the eyes	175
stings of hornets, &c.	175
sprain	175
bruises—fistula	176
wounds—galls	176
shoeing, contraction of the foot	176
corns	177
over-reach, forging or clicking	178
the bearing-rein	178
the bit	179
stables	180
comparative labor with oxen	190

Mule, the—breeding in the U. S.	183
rearing and management	184
advantages over horse labor	185
valuable qualities	185
enduringness of	186
in California	188
economy of mule-labor	189

Poultry—their value	214
Hens—constituent of eggs	214
food	215
general management	216
the poultry-house	218
varieties	220, 221
diseases	222
Turkey, the	223
breeding and management	223
Peacock, the	224
Goose, the—varieties—breeding	225
feeding and food	225
Ducks—feeding—varieties	226
breeding and rearing	227

Sheep, the	84
uses of—importance of	85
varieties of wild—domesticated	87
native	89
Merino, the, history of	90
exportation from Spain	92
importation into the U. States	93
varieties	94
Saxon, the	96
Rambouillet, the	99
history of Merino in U. States	101
improvements of	102
peculiarities of	103
breeding	104
localities for rearing	106
South-Down, the, history of	106
Cheviot, the	109
Long-wools, the	110
improvement of the Bakewell	110
improvement of Cotswold and Lincolnshire	112
peculiarities of the Long-wools	113
importation into the U. States	113
breeding sheep	113
Winter management	116
sheep-barns and sheds	116
racks, mangers, and troughs	117
food	118
management of ewes, yeaning	119
management of lambs	119
castrating and docking	120
tagging or clatting	121
Summer management and food	121
washing	122
shearing	124
smearing and salving	125
weaning	126
drafting	126
stall feeding—management on the prairies	127
Diseases	128
diarrhœa or scours	129
looseness in lambs, dysentery	130
hoven, braxy	130
costiveness, stretches, poison, inflammation of lungs, rot	131
foot-rot	132
flies, maggots, gad-fly	133
swollen mouth, foul noses, weakness, scab	134
ticks, pelt-rot, staggers or sturdy	135
abortion, garget, bleeding	136
wounds	137
to protect from wolves and foxes	138
Shepherd's dog	209
Swine	192
various breeds	194
breeding and rearing	198
rearing and fattening, large weights	199
treatment of food	201
products of the carcass	202
lard oil, how made	203
slearine and oleine	203
curing pork and hams	203
Diseases	204
coughs and inflammation of the lungs, costiveness, itch, kidney-worm	205
blind staggers	206

Wild Boar	193

DOMESTIC ANIMALS.

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