Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1880, by the
ORANGE JUDD COMPANY,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
- Absorbents in the Stable, [14], [17], [19], [26], [55], [75], [80], [94], [99], [127]
- Accounts, Dr. and Cr., [11], [31], [38], [45], [111], [113], [131]
- Ailments, [28], [89], [115]
- Alfalfa Clover, [97]
- Cut six times, [98]
- Artichokes, Jerusalem, [64-77]
- Feeding, [69], [75]
- Nutritive Value of, [75], [76]
- Barley as an Autumn Crop, [107]
- Barn—See [Stable]
- Barre System of Feeding, [105]
- Butter, [14]
- Buying Feed, [78], [93]
- Brewer’s Grains, [9], [109], [130]
- Calf, Care and Disposal of the, [12], [21], [27], [28], [57], [62], [71], [89], [119]
- Rations for, [21], [28]
- Scours in, [28]
- Teaching to Drink, [12], [22], [28]
- Clover, White and Red, compared, [104]
- Corn (Indian) for Fodder, [12], [17], [20], [25], [29], [31], [44], [60]
- Compost Heap, [19], [81]
- Cow, Care at Calving Time, [21], [27], [41], [50], [72], [83], [87], [114]
- Carding, [37], [56], [84]
- Drying Off, [14], [37], [87]
- Fat at Calving, [110], [114]
- General Treatment, [9], [17], [30], [37], [50], [96], [98], [119]
- How to Select a, [80]
- Kept in the North, [9]
- Kept in New York, [78], [99], [123]
- Kept in the South, [25]
- Kept in the Eastern States, [35], [92], [103], [110]
- Kept in the Town, [108], [130]
- Kept in Ohio, [53]
- Kept in Pennsylvania, [16], [64]
- Kept in Indiana, [119]
- Kept on Cape Cod, [92]
- Kept in California, [97]
- Kept in Connecticut, [110]
- Points of a Good, [9]
- Rations for, [29], [30], [37], [43]
- Stabled in Town, [108]
- Yield of Milk, [15], [42], [57], [72], [114], [132]
- Cow Doctors, [89]
- Diseases—See [Ailments]
- Draining Land, [125]
- Drouth, Effects of, on Milk, [39]
- Dry Fodder for Winter, [87], [108]
- Dung Heap, the, [125]
- Ellsworth’s, System of Feeding, [105]
- Exercise, Need of, [81], [109]
- Fastening for the Stable, [63]
- Feeding, System of, [18], [27], [29], [37], [43], [83], [103]
- Fertilizers, Commercial, [47], [59], [117], [118]
- Food, Am’t Required for a Year, [10], [64]
- Daily, [106]
- Garget (Inflamed Udder), [89], [115]
- Grasses, Mixed, as Soiling Crops, [103]
- Grass Seed Mixtures, [103]
- Ground Feed, Bran, [37], [87]
- Cotton-seed Oil Cake Meal, [29], [44], [87]
- Corn Meal, [37], [57], [59]
- Ground Feed, Oats and Peas, [10]
- Hay, [30], [82], [100]
- Hay Tea, [28]
- Hungarian Grass, [108]
- Land, Area Required, [9], [11], [16], [22], [47], [64-65], [78], [82], [93], [99], [106], [117-118], [125]
- Land, None Absolutely Required, [130]
- Sloping to the South and East, [125]
- Leaves as Bedding, [18], [94]
- Litter for Bedding, [18], [55], [80]
- Manure, [11], [100], [125]
- Care of, [19], [26], [62], [74], [80], [126]
- Liquid, [128]
- Supply Increased by Soiling, [38]
- Milk Flavored by Turnips, [14]
- Weeds, [103]
- In the Family, [11], [14], [58], [90], [130]
- Milking, [13], [62], [83]
- Three Times a Day, [72], [102], [104]
- Prior to Calving, [27], [41], [115]
- Milk-Pail, [50]
- Muck, Value as an Absorbent, [80]
- Parturition, [50], [72], [87]
- Pasturing, [39], [82]
- Peas, Canada Field, [92]
- Cow, [30]
- Pea-Vine Hay, [30]
- Pearl Millet, [21], [31], [116]
- Pigs to Work Over Manure, [94], [127]
- to Consume Sour Milk, [58], [79], [90]
- Profits of Keeping One Cow, [11], [35], [45], [58], [90], [115], [130]
- Rotation, [65-66], [83], [91]
- Roots, Culture of, [19], [41], [98], [107]
- Cutting Up, [18]
- Storing in Pits, [12], [20], [37], [95], [108]
- Storing in Barrels, [95]
- Root Crops, Artichokes, [64], [70], [75]
- Carrots, [20], [43]
- Mangels, [12]
- Parsnips, [37]
- Sugar-Beets, [16], [19], [60]
- Turnips, [42], [93]
- Root Cellar, [128]
- Salting, [122]
- Sea-Weed as an Absorbent, [94]
- Shade in the Yard, [81]
- Soiling Crops, [21], [25], [92]
- Alfalfa, [97]
- Artichokes, [64]
- Cabbages, [32], [94]
- Canada Peas, [92]
- Cow Peas, [30]
- Golden Millet, [25], [31]
- Hungarian Grass, [92], [108]
- Minnesota Corn, [92]
- Mixed Grasses, [103]
- Oats and Peas, [92]
- Peas, [11]
- Rye, [20], [108]
- Stables, Plans, etc., [10], [17], [25], [48], [49], [72-73], [78-79], [94], [121], [126-127-128]
- Stable Requisites, [11], [63]
- Stable-Tie, [63]
- Tethering, [116], [119]
- Tank for Liquid Manure, [128]
- Udder, Inflammation of, [89], [115]
- Vermin, [36]
- Water, [10], [26], [44], [84], [103]
- Weeds Flavoring Milk, [103]
PUBLISHERS’ ANNOUNCEMENT.
We have now, according to the last census, a population pressing close upon fifty Millions. Every one of this vast number is individually interested in the milk question. What is true of perhaps no other element of food and nourishment, milk is consumed in some form by all, old and young. It is because of this necessarily universal personal interest in milk that the publishers offer this volume which aims to show all how to obtain the best milk, plenty of it, and at the cheapest rates. The book embraces the experience and advice of able, well known writers—such, for example, as Professor Slade, of Harvard College, and Henry E. Alvord—elicited in response to propositions presented by the Publishers for articles upon the subject. The editorial supervision of the work has been in the hands of Col. Mason C. Weld and Professor Manly Miles—recognized authorities on Dairy Matters—who would have included many other valuable and interesting papers submitted, were it not that they would have made the volume too bulky. Mr. Orange Judd has added a leaf from his personal experience.
The topics treated are only those legitimately connected with the subject, yet they cover a wide field, and will prove of great interest to all occupied in the culture of the soil, while as a handbook and guide to those who keep one or more family cows it must be of almost daily practical use. The prominent subjects, such as soiling, stabling, care of manure, the tillage of the soil, the cultivation of various crops, care of the cow and of the calf, are each treated in detail, and yet there is so great a variety and such genuine personal experience and sincere conviction on the part of each writer, that his or her way is the best way—as indeed it may be, under the circumstances—that there is little or nothing of sameness or repetition in the book, but the reader’s interest is sustained to the last.