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

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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.
This work is designed to embody the most recent information on the subject of dairy farming. My aim has been to make a practically useful book. With this view, I have treated of the several breeds of stock, the diseases to which they are subject, the established principles of breeding, the feeding and management of milch cows, the raising of calves intended for the dairy, and the culture of grasses and plants to be used as fodder.
For the chapter on the diseases of stock, I am largely indebted to Dr. C. M. Wood, Professor of the Theory and Practice of Veterinary Medicine, and to Dr. Geo. H. Dadd, Professor of Anatomy and Physiology, both of the Boston Veterinary Institute. If this chapter contributes anything to promote a more humane and judicious treatment of cattle when suffering from disease, I shall feel amply repaid for the labor bestowed upon the whole work.
The chapter on the Dutch dairy, which I have translated from the German, will be found to be of great practical value, as suggesting much that is applicable to our American dairies. This chapter has never before, to my knowledge, appeared in English.