Domestic Animals / History and description of the horse, mule, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry and farm dogs; with directions for their management, breeding, crossing, rearing, feeding, and preparation for a profitable market; also their diseases and remedies. Together with full directions for the management of the dairy.

INDEX.

	Page
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
	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
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