Chapter I: Front Matter

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MILCH COWS
AND
DAIRY FARMING;

COMPRISING

THE BREEDS, BREEDING, AND MANAGEMENT, IN HEALTH AND DISEASE,
OF DAIRY AND OTHER STOCK, THE SELECTION OF MILCH COWS,
WITH A FULL EXPLANATION OF GUENON’S METHOD;
THE CULTURE OF FORAGE PLANTS,

AND THE PRODUCTION OF
MILK, BUTTER, AND CHEESE:

EMBODYING THE MOST RECENT IMPROVEMENTS, AND ADAPTED TO
FARMING IN THE UNITED STATES AND BRITISH PROVINCES.

WITH A TREATISE UPON THE
DAIRY HUSBANDRY OF HOLLAND;

TO WHICH IS ADDED
HORSFALL’S SYSTEM OF DAIRY MANAGEMENT.

BY CHARLES L. FLINT,
SECRETARY OF THE MASSACHUSETTS STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE; AUTHOR OF
“A TREATISE ON GRASSES AND FORAGE PLANTS,” ETC.

LIBERALLY ILLUSTRATED.

BOSTON:
PHILLIPS, SAMPSON AND COMPANY,
13 WINTER STREET.
1859.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1858, by
CHARLES L. FLINT,
In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the District of
Massachusetts.

Stereotyped by
HOBART A ROBBINS,
New England Type and Stereotype Foundery,
BOSTON.

PRINTED BY R. M. EDWARDS.

~TO~
THE MASS. STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE,
THE
MASS. SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF AGRICULTURE,
AND THE VARIOUS
AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES OF THE UNITED STATES,
WHOSE EFFORTS HAVE CONTRIBUTED SO LARGELY TO IMPROVE THE
DAIRY STOCK OF OUR COUNTRY
~This Treatise,~
DESIGNED TO ADVANCE THAT HIGHLY IMPORTANT INTEREST,
IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED,
BY
THE AUTHOR.

CONTENTS.

PREFACE. vii

CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY.--THE VARIOUS RACES OF PURE-BRED CATTLE
IN THE UNITED STATES. 9

The Ayrshires -- The Jersey -- The Short-horns -- The Dutch --
Herefords -- The North Devons

CHAPTER II. AMERICAN GRADE OF NATIVE CATTLE.--THE PRINCIPLES OF
BREEDING. 49

CHAPTER III. THE SELECTION OF MILCH COWS. 79

CHAPTER IV. FEEDING AND MANAGEMENT OF DAIRY COWS. 113

Soiling -- Milking -- The Barn

CHAPTER V. THE RAISING OF CALVES. 155

CHAPTER VI. CULTURE OF GRASSES AND OTHER PLANTS RECOMMENDED FOR
FODDER. 169

Timothy grass -- June grass -- Meadow Foxtail -- Orchard grass, or
Rough Cocksfoot -- Rough-stalked Meadow grass -- Fowl Meadow grass
-- Rye grass -- Italian Rye grass -- Redtop -- English Bent -- Meadow
Fescue -- Tall Oat grass -- Sweet-scented Vernal grass -- Hungarian
grass, or Millet -- Red Clover -- White Clover -- Indian Corn --
Common Millet (Panicum miliaceum) -- Rye -- Oats -- Chinese Sugar-Cane
-- The Potato (Solanum tuberosum) -- The Carrot (Daucus carota) --
Turnip (Brassica rapa) -- Mangold Wurzel -- Parsnip (Pastinaca sativa)
-- Kohl Rabi (Brassica oleracea, var. caulorapa)--Linseed Meal--
Rape-Cake -- Cotton-seed Meal -- Manures

CHAPTER VII. MILK. 199

CHAPTER VIII. BUTTER AND THE BUTTER-DAIRY. 217

CHAPTER IX. THE CHEESE-DAIRY. 241

Cheshire Cheese -- Stilton Cheese -- Gloucester Cheese -- Cheddar
Cheese -- Dunlop Cheese -- Dutch Cheese -- Parmesan -- American Cheese

CHAPTER X. THE DISEASES OF DAIRY STOCK. 271

Garget -- Puerperal or Milk Fever -- Simple Fever -- Typhoid Fever --
Hoove or Hoven -- Choking -- Foul in the Foot -- Red Water -- Hoose --
Inflammation of the Glands -- Inflammation of the Lungs -- Diarrhœa --
Dysentery -- Mange -- Lice -- Warbles -- Loss of Cud -- Diseases of
Calves -- Diarrhœa, Purging, or Scours -- Constipation or Costiveness
-- Hoove -- Canker in the Mouth