A larger space has been purposely devoted to the last topics, in preference to the subject of diseases, as prevention is not only less troublesome than cure, but much more economical. Feeding and management, after breeding, are really the important objects in view to the Stock-breeder and Grazier, for if these be judiciously attended to, disease among the herds will rarely be known.

The subject of animal diseases is complicated and little understood; and to be properly comprehended, requires years close, intelligent study, under every advantage for obtaining the necessary information. Nearly every disorder assumes various shades of difference, and to remove it effectually a corresponding change of treatment is required. How absurd then the idea, that a compilation of formal remedies, administered by an unskilful or inexperienced manager, will be of material service in rescuing his herds or flocks from the ravages of disease. All that can consistently be done, is to give a few simple remedies for the most common and well-known ailments, and leave to nature or a professional farrier, such as are more complex or unusual.

This work (with many subsequent and important additions) constitutes a small part of the "Compend of American Agriculture," the favorable reception of which, though but recently given to the public, has induced the writer to offer this important division of the subject in its present detached form.

New York, November, 1847

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]
mad-itch—bloody murrain[54]
hoof-ail[55]
loss of cud—scours or diarrhœa—warblesor 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]