Sheep, Swine, And Poultry

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Author

Jennings, Robert, 1824-1893

Title

Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc.

Credits

Produced by Steven Giacomelli, Harry Lamé 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

Sheep

Category

Text

eBook-No.

39205

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39205

Release Date

March 19, 2012

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.PREFACE.
3. 3.CONTENTS. — AMERICAN SHEEP. — NATIVE SHEEP. — THE SPANISH MERINO. — THE SAXON MERINO. — THE NEW LEICESTER. — THE SOUTH-DOWN. — THE COTSWOLD. — THE CHEVIOT. — THE LINCOLN. — THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE SHEEP. — FORMATION OF THE TEETH. — THE STRUCTURE OF THE SKIN. — THE ANATOMY OF THE WOOL. — LONG WOOL. — MIDDLE WOOL. — SHORT WOOL. — POINTS OF THE MERINO. — BREEDING MERINOS. — GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF BREEDING. — USE OF RAMS. — LAMBING. — MANAGEMENT OF LAMBS. — CASTRATION AND DOCKING. — FEEDING. — YARDS. — FEEDING-RACKS. — TROUGHS. — BARNS AND SHEDS. — TAGGING. — WASHING. — CUTTING THE HOOFS. — SHEARING. — MARKING OR BRANDING. — SELECTION AND DIVISION. — THE CROOK. — DRIVING AND SLAUGHTERING. — ADMINISTERING MEDICINE. — BLEEDING. — FEELING THE PULSE. — APOPLEXY. — BRAXY. — BRONCHITIS. — CATARRH. — MALIGNANT EPIZOÖTIC CATARRH. — COLIC. — COSTIVENESS. — DIARRHŒA. — DISEASE OF THE BIFLEX CANAL. — DYSENTERY. — FLIES. — FOULS. — FRACTURES. — GARGET. — GOITRE. — GRUB IN THE HEAD. — HOOF-AIL. — HOOVE. — HYDATID ON THE BRAIN. — OBSTRUCTION OF THE GULLET. — OPHTHALMIA. — PALSY. — PELT-ROT. — PNEUMONIA. — POISON. — ROT. — SCAB. — SMALL-POX. — SORE FACE. — SORE MOUTH. — TICKS.
4. 4.SWINE AND THEIR DISEASES. — AMERICAN SWINE. — THE BYEFIELD. — THE BEDFORD. — THE LEICESTER. — THE YORKSHIRE. — THE CHINESE. — THE SUFFOLK. — THE BERKSHIRE. — THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE HOG. — FORMATION OF THE TEETH. — BREEDING — POINTS OF A GOOD HOG. — TREATMENT DURING PREGNANCY. — ABORTION. — PARTURITION. — TREATMENT WHILE SUCKLING. — TREATMENT OF YOUNG PIGS. — CASTRATION AND SPAYING. — SPAYING. — WEANING. — RINGING. — FEEDING AND FATTENING. — PIGGERIES. — SLAUGHTERING. — PICKLING AND CURING. — VALUE OF THE CARCASS. — CATCHING THE PIG. — BLEEDING. — DRENCHING. — CATARRH. — CHOLERA. — CRACKINGS. — DIARRHŒA. — FEVER. — FOUL SKIN. — INFLAMMATION OF THE LUNGS. — JAUNDICE. — LEPROSY. — LETHARGY. — MANGE. — MEASLES. — MURRAIN. — QUINSY. — STAGGERS. — SWELLING OF THE SPLEEN. — SURFEIT. — TUMORS.
5. 5.POULTRY AND THEIR DISEASES. — THE BANTAM. — THE BOLTON GRAY. — THE BLUE DUN. — THE CHITTAGONG. — THE COCHIN CHINA. — THE CUCKOO. — THE DOMINIQUE. — THE DORKING. — THE DUNGHILL FOWL. — THE FRIZZLED FOWL. — THE GAME FOWL. — THE GUELDERLAND. — THE SPANGLED HAMBURGH. — THE JAVA. — THE JERSEY-BLUE. — THE LARK-CRESTED FOWL. — THE MALAY. — THE PLYMOUTH ROCK. — THE POLAND. — THE SHANGHAE. — THE SILVER PHEASANT. — THE SPANISH. — THE NATURAL HISTORY OF DOMESTIC FOWLS. — THE GUINEA FOWL. — THE PEA FOWL. — THE TURKEY. — THE DOMESTIC TURKEY. — THE DUCK. — THE WILD DUCK. — THE DOMESTIC DUCK. — THE GOOSE. — THE DOMESTIC GOOSE. — THE BERNACLE GOOSE. — THE BREMEN GOOSE. — THE BRENT GOOSE. — THE CHINA GOOSE. — THE EGYPTIAN GOOSE. — THE JAVA GOOSE. — THE TOULOUSE GOOSE. — THE WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE. — THE EGG. — SELECTION OF STOCK. — FEEDING. — LAYING. — PRESERVATION OF EGGS. — CHOICE OF EGGS FOR SETTING. — INCUBATION. — REARING OF THE YOUNG. — CAPONIZING. — FATTENING AND SLAUGHTERING. — POULTRY-HOUSES. — ASTHMA. — COSTIVENESS. — DIARRHŒA. — FEVER. — INDIGESTION. — LICE. — LOSS OF FEATHERS. — PIP. — ROUP. — WOUNDS AND SORES.
6. 6.LIST OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. — Transcriber’s notes:

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