Keeping one cow

About this eBook

Author

Various

Title

Keeping one cow Being the experience of a number of practical writers, in a clear and condensed form, upon the management of a single milch cow

Original Publication

United States: Orange Judd Company,1880.

Credits

deaurider and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

SF: Agriculture: Animal culture

Subject

Cows

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 68093

Release Date

May 15, 2022

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.TABLE OF CONTENTS.
3. 3.PUBLISHERS’ ANNOUNCEMENT.
4. 4.INTRODUCTION.
5. 5.KEEPING ONE COW. — THE FAMILY COW AT THE NORTH. — YARD, STABLE, AND RATIONS. — LAND AND CROPS. — WEANING THE CALF. — A FEW WORDS AS TO GENERAL MANAGEMENT.
6. 6.THE COW IN THE MIDDLE STATES. — THE BARN. — SYSTEM OF FEEDING. — MANURE. — CROPS AND TILLAGE. — CALVING.
7. 7.THE COW IN THE GULF STATES. — TEACHING THE CALF TO DRINK. — FOOD OF THE COW.
8. 8.THE VILLAGE COW IN NEW ENGLAND. BEING THE JOURNAL OF THE KEEPER. — CALVING AND AFTER-TREATMENT. — THE METHOD OF FEEDING
9. 9.JOSEPH EARNEST AND HIS COW “COMFORT.” A STORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE. — CORN FODDER. — SUMMER QUARTERS. — CONCLUSIONS.
10. 10.A GOOD STABLE “TIE.”
11. 11.JERUSALEM ARTICHOKES AS COW-FEED. — VALUE OF ARTICHOKES. — FEEDING ARTICHOKES. — HARVESTING ARTICHOKES. — THE STALKS — THE CALF AND THE CARE OF IT. — CALVING. — MAKING AND SAVING MANURE. — CONCLUSIONS ABOUT ARTICHOKES. — RURAL ECONOMY.
12. 12.VIEWS AND PRACTICE OF A PRACTICAL FARMER. — PROFIT IN BUYING PART OF THE FEED. — MANAGING THE MANURE PILE. — YARD ROOM AND EXERCISE. — HAY. — DAILY FEEDING. — WINTER FEED AND TREATMENT. — CALVING. — ACCIDENTS AND FAILURES. — ONE YEAR’S RESULTS.
13. 13.KEEPING A COW ON CAPE COD. — COW KEPT ON HALF AN ACRE. — THE STABLE AND THE MANURE CELLAR — BARRELS FOR KEEPING ROOTS.
14. 14.ALFALFA OR LUCERN.
15. 15.PERMANENT GRASS AS SOILING CROP. — BEST KINDS OF GRASSES. — MILKING THREE TIMES A DAY.
16. 16.THE ELLSWORTH OR “BARRE” SYSTEM OF FEEDING. — COW STABLED IN THE TOWN.
17. 17.FACTS REFUTE PREJUDICE. — ONE YEAR’S EXPENSES AND RETURNS. — GARGET. — TETHERING. — PEARL MILLET. — AN EXCELLENT COMPOST.
18. 18.A WOMAN’S SUCCESS AND EXPERIENCE. — HOW WE MANAGED THE CALF. — SUMMER MANAGEMENT. — A WINTER SHELTER. — ABOUT SALTING.
19. 19.UNDERDRAINING AND CARE OF MANURE. — THE DUNG HEAP.
20. 20.KEEPING A COW IN A VILLAGE STABLE. — THE COW’S DEBIT AND CREDIT FOR ONE HUNDRED DAYS.
21. 21.PORTRAITS OF FAMOUS DAIRY COWS.

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