Domestic Animals

About this eBook

Author

Allen, Richard Lamb, 1803-1869

Title

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.

Credits

Produced by Simon Gardner, Steven Giacomelli and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images produced by Core Historical Literature in Agriculture (CHLA), Cornell University)

Language

English

LoC Class

SF: Agriculture: Animal culture

Subject

Domestic animals

Category

Text

eBook-No.

34175

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34175

Release Date

October 31, 2010

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Transcriber's Notes — DOMESTIC ANIMALS.
2. 2.INTRODUCTION.
3. 3.INDEX.
4. 4.CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY REMARKS—GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF BREEDING, NUTRITION, MANAGEMENT, &c. — PRINCIPLES OF BREEDING. — GENERAL FORM AND CHARACTERISTICS. — The Lungs. — RESPIRATION IN ANIMALS. — The Effects of Respiration. — Perspiration — The Food which supplies Respiration. — Circumstances which augment Respiration. — THE FEEDING OF ANIMALS. — Purposes fulfilled by different Kinds of Food. — The Changes in the Food of Animals. — The Profit of Feeding.
5. 5.CHAPTER II. NEAT OR HORNED CATTLE. — Various Domestic Breeds. — Native Cattle. — The Devon — The Short Horns, or Durhams. — THE IMPORTATION OF SHORT HORNS INTO THIS COUNTRY. — Herefords. — The Ayrshire — MANAGEMENT OF CALVES. — Diseases and Remedies. — Breeding. — Breaking Steers — Management of Oxen. — Management of Bulls or Vicious Animals. — The proper time for turning off Cattle. — Fattening Cattle. — The selection of Animals for Stall Fattening. — Stall-Feeding. — DISEASES IN CATTLE. — Hoven, or Swelling of the Paunch, — The Proper Mode of giving the above Remedies — Choking — Inflammation of the Stomach. — Mange, or Scab. — Hollow Horn, or Horn Ail. — Jaundice, or Yellows. — Mad Itch. — Bloody Murrain, or Red Water. — Hoof Ail — Loss of Cud — Scours, or Diarrhœa. — Warbles — Wounds — Milk, or Puerperal Fever, — Caked Bag — Garget — Sore Teats — Warts — Sore Necks on Working Oxen. — The Bite of Poisonous Snakes — For Stings of Bees, Hornets, &c. — For a Forming Tumor. — Lice and Vermin — The Trembles,
6. 6.CHAPTER III. THE DAIRY. — Cows for the Dairy. — Management of Dairy Cows. — Milking. — MILK — The Constituents of Milk — Circumstances which modify the Quantity and Character of Milk. — Cream. — BUTTER. — Electricity — Sour Cream. — Sweet Cream — Clouted Cream — Churning the whole Milk — Sourness of the Cream. — Quickness in Churning. — Over-churning. — Temperature of the Milk or Cream. — The alleged advantages of Churning the entire Milk. — Cleanliness in all the operations of the Dairy. — CHEESE. — The Circumstances affecting the Quality of Cheese. — Natural Differences in the Milk — Milk of Different Animals. — Creamed or Uncreamed Milk. — Buttermilk Cheese. — Whey Cheese. — Mixtures of Vegetable Substances with the Milk. — Potato Cheeses, — Preparation of Rennet. — Salting the Stomach. — Making the Rennet. — Different Qualities of Cheese. — Mode in which the Milk is warmed. — The time during which the Curd stands. — The quality of the Rennet. — The quantity of Rennet added. — The way in which the Rennet is made. — The way in which the Curd is treated. — The Separation of the Whey — The Mode in which the Salt is applied. — Addition of Cream or Butter to the Curd. — Size of the Cheese. — The Method of Curing. — Ammoniacal Cheese. — Inoculating Cheese.
7. 7.CHAPTER IV. SHEEP — Uses. — VARIETIES. — The Domesticated Sheep ( O. Aries ) — Native or Common Sheep of the United States. — The Merino. — Exportation of Merinoes from Spain. — The first importation of Merinoes into the United States, — Varieties of the Spanish Sheep. — The Saxon, — The first Importation of Saxons into this Country — The Rambouillet Flock. — The first Importation of the Rambouillets to this Country. — The Progress of the Merino in the United States. — Peculiarities of the Merino. — Breeding Merinoes. — The South Down. — The form and characteristics of the South Downs. — The Cheviot — The Bakewell or Leicester, the Cotswold and Lincolnshire, — Improvement of the Long-Wools. — The Cotswold and Lincolnshire. — Peculiarity of long Wool and its Uses. — Importation of Long-Wools. — Breeding the Long-Wools. — The ewe goes with young — Winter Management and Food. — Shelters. — Racks or Mangers. — Troughs. — Food. — The Care of the Ewes with Young — Yeaning. — Management of Lambs. — Castrating and Docking Lambs. — Tagging, or Clatting, — Summer Management. — Washing Sheep. — Shearing. — Smearing or Salving Sheep — Weaning. — The time for taking Sheep from the Pastures. — Drafting the Flock, — Stall-Feeding. — Management of Sheep for the Prairies. — DISEASES OF SHEEP. — Diarrhœa or Scours, — Dysentery. — Hoven. — Braxy. — Costiveness. — Stretches. — Poison, — Inflammation of the Lungs. — Rot. — Foot-Rot. — Corrosion of the Flesh by Flies or Maggots, — Flies on Sheep — Protection from the Gad-Fly. — Swollen Mouth — Foul Noses. — Scab. — Ticks and Lice — Pelt-rot — Staggers or Sturdy, and Water in the Head, — Abortion — The Uterus — For Garget, or Caked Bag. — Bleeding. — Large cuts are healed — To protect lambs from wolves and foxes,
8. 8.CHAPTER V. THE HORSE. — Some of the prominent external points of a fine Saddle or Gig Horse, — Considerations which affect the Value of the Horse. — Breeding. — The Gestation of the Mare — The Mare comes in Heat — Management of the Colt. — Castrating. — Docking — Nicking. — Breaking. — Longevity of the Horse. — Feeding. — DISEASES. — Glanders. — Farcy. — Lampas. — Poll-evil. — Heaves. — Catarrh or Horse Distemper. — Spasmodic Colic. — Flatulent Colic. — Inflammation of the Bowels. — The second variety of Inflammation of the Bowels — Physicking. — Worms. — Bots. — Wind-galls. — Inflammation of the Fetlock. — Cutting. — Sprain of the Coffin-Joint. — Ringbone. — Enlargement of the Hock. — Curb. — Bone Spavin. — Swelled Legs. — Grease. — Cutting the Hair from the Heels. — Setons — Founder, — Poison — Epidemics among Horses, — Inflammation of the Eyes. — The Sting of Hornets, — For Sprains, — For a Bruise or Blow. — Fistula. — Wounds — Galls, — Shoeing. — Contraction of the Foot. — Litter. — Corns. — An Over-reach — Forging, or Clicking, — The Bearing Rein — The Bit — An Unruly Stud may be controlled — Blinds — The Crib Biter. — The Stable
9. 9.CHAPTER VI. THE ASS, THE MULE, AND THE COMPARATIVE LABOR OF WORKING ANIMALS. — THE ASS — Varieties. — THE MULE — Breeding Mules in the United States, — The Breeding, Rearing, and Management of Mules — ADVANTAGES OF MULE OVER HORSE LABOR. — The comparative Economy of Horse and Ox Labor.
10. 10.CHAPTER VII. SWINE. — Breeds of Swine. — Breeding. — Management and Fattening. — Curing Hams and Pork. — Hams and Shoulders — DISEASES OF SWINE. — Pulmonary Affections, Colds, Coughs, and Measles. — Blind Staggers.
11. 11.CHAPTER VIII. FARM-DOGS. — The Newfoundland Dog. — The Shepherd's Dog. — The Drover's Dog. — The Terrier.
12. 12.CHAPTER IX. POULTRY. — Hens — The Food — The Hen-house — Varieties. — The Diseases of Hens. — THE TURKEY. — Breeding. — THE PEACOCK AND GUINEA-HEN. — THE GOOSE. — Breeding. — DUCKS — Transcriber's Notes

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