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THE FAMILY FARM AND GARDENS, AND THE DOMESTIC ANIMALS. In Three Parts, Illustrated. Published in 1859 by the Auburn Publishing Co., Auburn, New York. 9” x 6” leather binding. Illustrated with engravings. 809 pages. Condition: GOOD ANTIQUE CONDITION. Exterior as shown in photo. Rebacked with morocco leather spine. Text is clean and complete, light toning and foxing. Binding good, one signature partially loosened but not detached. No torn, detached or missing pages. Description: THE FAMILY FARM AND GARDENS, AND THE DOMESTIC ANIMALS is a pre-Civil War time-capsule loaded with practical wisdom and instruction for American families hoping to thrive on their farms, homesteads and in rural towns. It is actually three volumes published in a single book. A promotional statement for this book reads: THE FAMILY FARM AND GARDENS, AND THE DOMESTIC ANIMALS embraces a great variety of the most interesting and important practical subjects, adapted to the wants of all classes in town or country. It is not to the farmer only that this work is valuable. It is adapted equally to the mechanic, the merchant, the professional man — to all who own gardens, keep horses, cows, poultry, or bees — and, at the same time, to ALL WHO KEEP HOUSE. It will be found a very convenient and instructive hand-book upon the various and important subjects embraced in it, aiding the memories of the experienced and instructing the young. Its object is to lay before its readers in one volume, and in a convenient and easily accessible shape, the latest discoveries and improvements relating to the management and products of The Farm, The Kitchen-Garden, the Fruit-Garden, and the Flower-Garden. The Farm and Domestic Animals subjects will possess a special interest to the farmer, while the Gardening, Cookery and Housekeeping subjects will be found equally interesting to all classes. THE FAMILY, or How to Keep House, to Provide, to Cook, to Bake, to Wash, to Dye, to Paint, to Preserve Health, to Cure Disease, &c, &c. — a Complete Manual of Household Management: This volume contains the latest discoveries and improvements made, at home and abroad, in all the household arts, as in cooking, baking, washing, housekeeping, dyeing, etc. It’s not only a complete and reliable cookbook, but also a guide to the various other duties incident to housekeeping — an indispensable necessity in every family. THE FARM AND GARDENS, A Complete and Valuable Compend for the Management of the Farm and Gardens: In this volume will be found the collected observations and experiments of scores of the best farmers, gardeners, fruit-growers, and florists in this country and in Europe. A treasury of practical information for every farm or lot owner in the land, including: The Farm – Its Management, Crops and Products The Kitchen-Garden – What to Grow and How to Grow It The Fruit Garden – How to Have Choice Fruit The Flower-Garden – How to Cultivate All Outdoor Flowers THE DOMESTIC ANIMALS: This volume presents a complete treatise upon each of the domestic animals, from the best European and American writers. To every farmer, or even to the owner of a horse, or a cow, or the keeper of poultry and bees, this part of the book alone will annually pay many times its cost, in the instruction it gives for the selection of the best animals, in the. economy of feeding them, and in their consequent increased value to their owners. The Horse – How to Breed, Break, Feed, and Cure Cattle – The Best Breeds, and their Management Sheep – Their Breeds, Treatment, Etc. Swine – How to Breed, Feed, Cut Up and Cure Poultry – The Different Breeds and How to Keep Them Bees – Their Habits, Management, Etc. THE FAMILY FARM AND GARDENS, AND THE DOMESTIC ANIMALS is illustrated with numerous fine engravings of fruits, flowers, farm and agricultural implements, farm animals and more. Whether you’re an experienced or aspiring farmer … a seasoned or amateur gardener … a free-spirit who’s into homesteading … or simply someone passionate about sustainable living, THE FAMILY FARM AND GARDENS, AND THE DOMESTIC ANIMAL promises to be an invaluable companion. It’s not just a farm or home manual – it’s your passport to a simpler, more self-sufficient lifestyle, filled with purpose and connection to the land. For your convenience, I have prepared some helpful details below, starting with a thorough summary of the Contents and including a complete listing of the individual recipes found in the cookbook portion. Further down this page, you can see some of the beautiful engravings from this book. I hope you’ll take a moment to have a look. Contents Are: VOLUME I – THE FAMILY Chapter One ~ The Family Guide: Domestic Rules * The House * Furnishing the House * Frugality * How to Provide * Marketing * Choice of Articles of Food * To Preserve Potatoes * Choice of Meats * To Preserve Fresh Meats Chapter Two ~ Modes of Cooking: Boiling * Time For Boiling and Roasting * Roasting, Time Required * Ribs of Beef * Ribs of Beef Boned and Rolled * Mutton * The Leg, Haunch and Saddle * A Chine or Saddle * Shoulder * Loin of Mutton * The Neck and Breast * A Haunch * Mutton * A Fillet of Veal * A Loin * Shoulder of Veal * Neck * Veal Sweet-bread * Lamb * Leg, Shoulder, Ribs, Loin Chapter Three ~ Cooking Meats: General Principles * Boiling * Roasting * Broiling * Baking * Frying * Beef, Cold, Boiled * Beef (Rump) Steak and Onion Sauce * Round of Salt Beef * Utensils for Cooking * The Frying-Pan * The Dutch Oven * The Sauce Pan Chapter Four ~ Hints On Setting Out a Table, Deportment While At Table, Etc. Chapter Five ~ Details of Practical Cookery: Bread and Bread-Making: How to test flour * Yeast * Domestic yeast * Yeast-cakes * How to make prime yeast * How to make home-made bread * French bread and rolls * A great increase on home-made bread * Economical and nourishing bread * Boston Brown Bread * Brown Graham Bread * Premium Bread * A Rich Corn Bread * Wheat and Indian Bread * Use of Lime-Water in Making Bread * Milk-Emptyings Bread * Yankee Bread * Potato Bread * Rye Bread * Excellent Biscuits * Soda Biscuits * Potato Biscuits * Butter Biscuits * Tea Rusk * Rolls * Light Rolls * French Rolls Cakes: Requisite information for making and baking cakes * Crust, short and rich but not sweet * Crust, short * Apple Cake * Jelly Cake * Grandmother’s Cake * Cookies * Johnny Cake * Tea Cakes * Luncheon Cakes * Nice Plum Cake * Lemon Buns * Loaf Cake * Plum Cake * Wedding Cake * Iceing or Frosting for Cake * Doughnuts or Nut Cake * Buckwheat Cakes * Fritters * Griddle Cakes * Rice Sponge Cake * Washington Cake * Drop Cakes * Sponge-Cakes * Yellow Lady-Cake * White Lady-Cake * Buckwheat Cakes * Country Cream Cakes * Breakfast Indian Cakes * Nice Country Muffins for Tea * Graham Cake * Soda Biscuits * Doughnuts with Sugar * Crullers * Frosting for Cake * Ginger Snaps * Ginger Nuts * Tea Cakes * Hard Gingerbread * Soft Gingerbread * Nice Gingerbread * Gingerbread with Fruit * Sugar Gingerbread * Gooseberry Cake * Honey Cake * Indian Breakfast Cakes * Crackers * Butter-Crackers Pies: Family Pie Crust * Mince Pie * Mince Pies without meat * Lemon Mince Pies * Lemon Pies * Apple Mince Pies * Cracker Pies * Pumpkin Pie * Squash Pies * Apple Pie * Dried Apple Pie * Currant and Gooseberry Pie * Cranberry Pie or Tarts * Rhubarb Pie * Apricot Pie * Red Sugar-Beet Pie * Cocoanut Pie * Huckleberry or Whortleberry Pie * Plain Custard Pie * Cherry Pie * Lemon Pie * Veal or Chicken and Parsley Pie Puddings: Baked Apple Pudding * Boiled Apple Pudding * Plain Boiled Indian Pudding * Corn Meal Pudding * Eve’s Pudding * Plum Pudding * English Plum Pudding * Custard Pudding * Plain Baked Bread Pudding * Economical Pudding * Carrot Pudding * Custard Pudding, Boiled * Jenny Lind Pudding * Potato Pudding * Puddings in Haste * Delicate Rice Pudding * Suet Pudding * Minute Pudding * Corn Pudding * Cracker Pudding * Apples in Butter * Baked Indian Pudding * Boiled Indian Pudding * Curd * Floating Island * Yeast Dumplings * Lemon Dumplings * Light Dough Dumplings Tarts: Tartlets * Apple-Tart * Bird’s Nest Pudding * Apricot Tart * Apricot Sweetmeat for Tarts * Cherry Tart * Currant Tart * Damson Tart * Grape Tart * Gooseberry (Green) Tart * Pear Tart * Quince Tart Jellies: Clear Apple Jelly * Apple Jelly * Quince Jelly * Apricot Jelly * Lemon Jelly * Strawberry Raspberry and Blackberry Jelly * Cranberry, Grape and Currant Jelly * Currant Jelly Custards: Apple Custard * Boiled Cuustards * Soft Custards * Baked Custard * Plain Custard Eggs and Omelets: Boiled Eggs * Poached Eggs * To Dress Eggs * Scotch Eggs * Omelet * Omelet au Naturel * Onion Omelet * Omelet with Ham, etc * Omelet Fritters * Omelet Souffle Preserved Fruits, Etc.: How to Clarify Sugar * Strawberries Preserved Whole * Pears, Preserved * Peaches, Preserved * Candied Plums * Preserved Plums * Preserved Quinces * Preserved Rhubarb * Raspberry Jam * Tomato Figs * Gooseberry Jam * Peach Jam * Cherry Jam * Quinces for the Table * How to Preserve Golden Pippins Pickles: Rules to be observed in Pickling * Pickled Asparagus * Pickled French Beans * To Pickle Red Cabbage * Young Cucumbers * Peaches * To Pickle Onions Vegetables, Salads, Etc.: Asparagus * Asperge a la Pois, French Recipe * Beets * Broccoli * Green or Stringed Beans * Celery * Cabbage and Cauliflowers * Cabbage Salad and Cole Slaw * Red Cabbage * Carrots * Stewed Cucumbers * Greens * Lettuce * Hominy * Onions * Green Pease * Pease stewed in Cream * How to Cook Potatoes * How to Boil New Potatoes * How to Boil Irish Potatoes * Roasted Potatoes * Potatoes in Haste * Fried or Boiled Potatoes * Potatoes Glazed * Potato Rissoles * Potato Ragout * Porridge or Soup of Potatoes * To Mash Potatoes * Potato Balls * Sweet Potatoes, Baked * Parsnip Fritters * Parsnips * Radishes * Squashes * Green Sweet Corn * Sea Kale * Porridge of Turnips * Broiled Mushrooms * Salad * Salsify or Vegetable Oyster * Tomatoes * Raw Tomatoes * Southern Mode of Boiling Rice Other Food Recipes: Directions for making good sausages * How to preserve eggs * How to make root beer * How to make Theological Beer * How to preserve Hams in summer * How to keep Grapes fresh * How to dry Sweet Corn for winter use Coffee, Tea, Chocolate, Cocoa: Coffee * To Roast Coffee * A substitutet for cream for coffee * Coffee Milk * Coffee Cream * To give Coffee the flavor of Vanilla * Chocolate * Tea Home-Made Wines: Apple wine * Grape Wine * Cherry Wine * Currant Wine * Elder Wine * Raspberry Wine Chapter Six ~ Miscellaneous Practical Receipts in Household Economy: Washing * Washing Made Easy * Starching, Folding, Ironing, Etc * Starching – Clear Starching – To Make Starch for Linen, Cotton, Etc * Receipt for Washing Woolen Goods * To Make Calicoes Wash Well * How to Make Soup Without Boiling * Hard Soap * To Clear-Starch Lace * Ironing Laces * To Raise the Pile of Velvet when Pressed Down * When Water is Hard * Dyeing * General Directions * For Coloring Sky-Blue * For Lilac Color* To Color Black * Lemon Color * Royal Purple * Slate Color * Scarlet * To Color a Bright Madder * How to Color Green * Straw Color and Yellow * Drab Color * How to Dye Purple with Cochineal * How to Dye Brown * How to Color Pink * How to Dye a Coffee Color * Nankin Color * How to make Rose Color * To Dye Straw and Chip Bonnets Black * To Dye White Gloves a Beautiful Purple * How to Bleach Straw Hats, etc * How to Dye Silks Black * How to Color Yellow on Cotton * For Orange * Whitewashing * Excellent Cheap Whitewash * Brilliant Whitewash * Painting * Black paint made from potatoes * Substitute for white lead * A substitute for white oil paint * Cheap paint for a barn * A varnish to prevent the rays of the sun from passing through window or other glass * Composition to make colored drawings and prints resemble paintings in oil * How to take smell from fresh paint * How to extract paint from goods * The best season for painting houses * Cleansing Feathers of their animal oils * Ringworm * Directions for making good sausages * To drive away cockroaches * To get rid of moths * To destroy slugs * Preserving eggs * An improvements in making candles * To save expense in clothing * Composition to make colored drawings and prints resemble paintings in oil * Varnish to color baskets * To stain harps, violins, or any other musical instrument * Polish mahogany furniture * Clean paint that is not varnished * To take smell from fresh paint * To extract paint from goods * Fire and waterproof cement * To remove marks from a table * Inks * Theological beer * Family soda water * To prevent the smoking of a lamp * Remedy for blistered feet * Easy method of exterminating rats * Cure for burns * Corns * Curing stings of bees * How to get sleep * To preserve milk * For the cure of felon * To make clothes water proof * To clean glass * Family too-chests * To preserve hams in summer * To keep grapes fresh * Liquid glue * To clean hair brushes * Disinfectant liquid * Straining or filtering water * How to dig wells in quicksand * To clean teeth * To destroy ants * Poisons and their Antidotes Chapter Seven ~ The Means of Preserving Health (90 pages) Chapter Eight ~ Furniture and Rural Structures of Iron Chapter Nine ~ Common Things – Where Obtained, How Prepared, Used, Etc.: Tea * Coffee * Cocoa * Chocolate * Foreign Fruits * The Orange Tree * The Lemon Tree * Figs * Olives * Pomegranate Tree * Cocoa-nuts * Dates * Almonds * Brazil Nuts * Raisins * Prunes and French Plums * Tamarinds * The Spices * Cinnamon * Nutmegs * Pepper * Chili Vinegar * Cardamoms * Capers * China, Porcelain, Etc * Narcotics * Tobacco * Opium * Betel Nut * Coca * Datura * Medicines, Etc * Medicinal Plants * Camomile Flowers * Licorice * Poppies * Momortica elaterium * Saffron * Aloes * Aloes-Wood * Bark * Rhubarb * Senna * Ipecacuanha * Sarsaparilla * Camphor * Iodine * Castor Oil * Croton Oil Chapter Eight ~ Miscellaneous VOLUME II – THE FARM AND GARDENS PART ONE – THE FARM Chapter One ~ Soils: The Nature and Composition of the Soil * A Good Soil * Analysis of Soils * To Improve Clay Soils * To Improve Sandy Soils * Improvement of Loans Chapter Two ~ Manures: A.B. Dickinson’s Method of Using Plaster on Seeds * Barnyard Manure * Vast deposits of Peat or Swamp Muck * Hog Manure * Manure of Fowls * Green Manures * Night Soil * Guano Chapter Three ~ Rotation of Crops Chapter Four ~ Draining Chapter Five ~ Fences: Their Cost * Wire Fences * Hedges, or Live Fences * Plants For Hedges * Planting * Trimming Chapter Six ~ Farm Implements: Double Mould-Board Plow * Rotary Harrow * The Field Roller * List of Farm Implements Necessary for the proper Cultivation of 100 Acres of Arable Land Chapter Seven ~ Farm Crops: Culture and Use of Wheat * Choosing Seed * Time of Sowing Winter Wheat * Planting Wheat in Hills * Diseases of Wheat * Mildew * The Wheat Midge * Hessian Fly * Rye, Its Culture and Use * Culture and Use of Barley * Kinds of Barley * Time of Sowing * Diseases * Produce and Value * Culture and Use of Oats * Culture and Use of Buckwheat * Culture and Use of Potatoes * Culture of Potatoes in the Southern States * Value of the Potato * To guard against potato disease * Mode of securing the best tubers for seed * Influence of wide planting * The Sweet Potato * Culture and Use of Tobacco * Cotton, Its Culture and Use * Culture and Use of Rice * The History and Manufacture of Sugar * Process of Manufacture * Chinese Sugar-Cane, its Culture, and production of Sugar * Culture * Harvesting * Pressing * Boiling Down * To Convert the Syrup into Sugar * The Pea Culture and Use * Varieties * Garden Sorts * Saving Seed * Mangel-Wurzel * Season for Sowing * Culture * Use and Value * Preservation * Beans * Cabbage * Rapid Method of Transplanting * Diseases of the Cabbage * Storing Cabbages * Profits of the Culture * Turnips * Varieties * Carrots * The Parsnip * The Grasses * The Sun Flower * Canada Thistles * Daisies Chapter Eight ~ Depredating Animals, Birds and Insects, and How to Remedy Them: Depredating Animals * The Fox * Badger * Polecat, Stoat and Weasel * Strange Cats * Rabbits * Wolves * The Raccoon * Squirrels * Rats * Mice * Mole * Depredating Birds * Depredating Insects * Striped Turnip Beetle * Black Jack * Cockchafer * The Grub or Caterpillar * Wire Worm * Slugs * Weevils * Wheat Midge * Insects Injurious to Livestock Chapter Nine ~ Dogs, the Best Breeds: The Shepherd Dogs and the Terriers * The Uses made of the Dog * The Mastiff Chapter Ten ~ The Kitchen Garden: Preparation of Soil * General Hints * How to Cultivate Vegetables * Saving Seed * To Test their Soundness * How to Sow * Transplanting * Cultivation * Garden Rotation * Particular Vegetables * Artichoke * Asparagus * Beans * Beet * Borecole or Kale * Cauliflower * Celery * Carrot * Egg-plant * Endive * Lettuce * Melon * Watermelons * Okra * Onion * Parsley * Peppers * Radish * Rhubarb * Salsify * Squash * Tomato * Turnip * Aromatic, Pot and Sweet Herbs * Plants Cultivated for Medicinal and Other Purposes * Fruits to Cultivate * The Blackberry * Currant * Gooseberry * The Grape and its varieties * Raspberry * The Strawberry * Profits of Gardening * Garden Irrigation * Mr. Wilkins’ Model Garden at Caversham, Berks, England * Description of the Mechanical Arrangements Chapter Eleven ~ The Fruit-Garden and The Fruits to Cultivate: Apples, Pears, Peaches, Plums, Cherries, Apricots, Nectarines * How to Propagate Fruit Trees * Layers * Grafting * Grafting Wax * Budding * Transplanting * Pruning * The Different Fruits to Cultivate – Select Varieties and Mode of Culture * Summer Apples * Summer Rose Apple * Golden Sweet Apple * American Summer Pearmain Apple * Early Harvest Apple * Tart-Bough Apple * Early Joe Apple * Early Strawberry Apple * Garden Royal Apple * Porter Apple * Red Astrachan Apple * Sine Qua Non Apple * Summer Bell Flower Apple * Williams Favorite Apple * Autumn Apples * Jersey Sweeting * Peach-Pond Sweet Apple * Autumnal Swaar Apple * Gravenstein Apple * Haskell Sweet Apple * Summer Sweet Paradise Apple * Late Strawberry Apple * Dyer Apple * Fall Pippin Apple * Hawley Apple * Orne’s Early Apple * Late Strawberry Apple * Winter Apples * Baldwin Apple * Newtown Pippin Apple * Roxbury Russet Apple * Hubbardston Nonesuch Apple * Wagener Apple * Rhode Island Greening Apple * Red Canada Apple * Northern Spy Apple * Spitzenburgh, Esopus Apple * Yellow Newtown Pippin * Bailey Sweet Apple * Tallman Sweeting Apple * Ladies’ Sweeting Apple * Sweet Russet Apple * The Six Best Winter Apples * Fruit for the West – Twenty Best Apples for an Orchard of 100 Trees * Select List for the South, Summer and Winter Apples * Summer Pears * Bartlett Pear * Tyson Pear * Rosticzer Pear * Madeleine Pear * Summer Doyenne Pear * Bloodgood Pear * Dearborn’s Seedling Pear * Summer Frankreal Pear * Autumn Pears * White Doyenne Pear * Gray Doyenne Pear * Beurre Bose Pear * Seckel Pear * Louise Bonne of Jersey Pear * Autumn Paradise Pear * Winter Pears * Beurre d’Aremberg * Prince’s St. Germain * Gray Winter Beurre * Vicar of Wakefield * Select List of Pears for Southern Cultivation * Dwarf Pear * Varieties * Diseases * The Peach – Varieties * Serrate Early York Peach * Large Early York Peach * New York Rareripe Peach * Early Tillotson * Bergen’s Yellow Pear * Columbia Pear * Brevoort Pear * Gross Mignonne Pear * Early Admirable Pear * Crawford’s Early Pear * Crawford’s Late Pear * Jaques’ Rareripe Pear * Early Newington Freestone Pear * Insects, Diseases, Etc * The Yellows * Peach Worm or Borer * The Plum and Its Varieties * Washington Plum * Imperial Plum * Jefferson Plum * Green Gage Plum * Coe’s Golden Drop Plum * Purple Gage Plum * Purple Favorite Plum * Lombard Plum * Royale Native or Early Royal Plum * Howell’s Early Plum * Orleans Early Plum * Diseases, Insects, Etc * The Cherry and Varieties * Rockport Bigarreau Cherry * Bigarreau of Graffion Cherry * Cleveland Bigarreau Cherry * Elton Cherry * Downton Cherry * Black Tartarian Cherry * Knight’s Early Black Cherry * Mayduke Cherry * Royal Duke Cherry * Plumstone Morello Cherry * Grafting * Apricots – Varieties * Moorpark Apricot * Breda Apricot * Peach Apricot * Large Early Apricot * Insects * The Nectarine – Varieties * Early Violet Nectarine * Large Early Violet Nectarine * Elruge Nectarine * New White Nectarine * Downton Nectarine * Hunt’s Tawny Nectarine * Early Newington Nectarine * Packing Apples for Shipping * Hardy Fruits of the West Chapter Twelve ~ The Flower-Garden: For Whom Prepared * Best Kind of Soil * The Shrubbery * Classes of Flowers and Shrubs * Annuals, Biennials, Perennial Plants * Bulbous Plants * Tuberous-rooted plants * Herbaceous plants * Hardy Annuals * Fall Sowing * How to sow * Cultivation * Select List of Flowering Plants and Shrubs (26 pages) Appendix To The Farm: Different Varieties of Wood * Oak * Hickory or Walnut * Ash * Elm * Locust * Wild Cherry * Chestnut * Beech * Bass-wood * Tulip Tree * Maple * Birch * Buttonwood * Persimmon * Black Walnut * Tupelo * Pine * Spruce * Hemlock * White Cedar * Cypress * Larch * Arbor Vitae * Red Cedar * Willow * Mahogany * Teakwood * Lancewood * Boxwood * Lignum Vitae * Properties and Composition of Wood * Timber and its preservation * Seasoning * Preservation of Timber * Preservation of Animal Textures * Preservative Materials – Details of their Application * Modes of applying preservative agents * Other effects of the impregnation of wood with foreign substances Useful Reference Tables, Etc. VOLUME THREE – THE DOMESTIC ANIMALS Chapter One ~ The Horse: Character of the Horse * Principal Breeds in the United States * The Race-Horse * The Arabian or Arab Horse * The Canadian Horse * The Norman Horse * The Cleveland Bay * The Dray Horse * The Trotting Horse * Breeding * Breaking * Breaking in Harness * Riding * Backing * Obedience * Bitting * Shying * Use of the Whip * Use to the Saddle * Kindness united with firmness * The Art of Horse-Taming As Practiced by William and John S. Rarey * Principles of the Rarey System * General Rules * Putting on the Halter * Leading the Colt * Saddling and Bridling * Mounting the Colt * The True Way to Bit a Colt * Putting on the Harness * To Hitch up the colt * Blinkers on horses * To drive a kicking horse * About balky horses * Stable Management * Ventilation * Cleanliness * The Stable Floor * The Horse’s Food * Whole or Bruised Grain * Value of Different Kinds of Food * Effect on the Offspring * Grooming * Management of the Feet * Exercise * Shoeing * Putting on the Shoe * Calkins * The Hinder Shoe * Clips * Different Kinds of Shoes * Concave-Seated Shoes * Unilateral of One-Side Nailed Shoe * The Bar Shoe * The Expanding Shoe * Felt or Leather Soles * Stopping the Feet * The Sandal * How to Manage a Fallen Horse * Vices and Disagreeable or Dangerous Habits of the Horse * Restiveness * Getting the Check of the bit into the mouth * Kicking * Unsteadiness while being mounted * Rearing * Running away * Vicious to clean * Vicious to Shoe * Swallowing without grinding * Crib biting * Wind sucking * Not lying down * Overreach * Pawing * Quidding * Rolling * Shying * Slipping the collar or halter * Tripping * Weaving * Soundness and the Purchase and Sale of Horses * Broken Knees * Capped hocks * Contraction * Cough * Roaring, Wheezing, etc * Crib-biting * Curb * Cutting * Enlarged Glands * Enlarged Hock * Eyes * Lameness * Neurotomy * Ossification of the Lateral Cartilages * Pumiced Foot * Ringbone * Sand Crack * Spavin * Bog or Blood Spavin * Splint * Stringhalt * Thickening of the Back Sinews * Thoroughpin * Thrush * Windgalls * Diseases of the Horse and Their Treatment (13 pages) * Table showing the Proportions of Medicines to be given to Horses at Various Ages Chapter Two ~ Cattle: The Dairy and Fat-Producing Breeds, and Their Management in Health and Disease: Cattle, Their Breeds, Management, Etc * Cattle, Their Value * Dairy Breeds of Cattle * The Ayrshire Cow * The Alderneys or Jersey Cows * The Yorkshire Cow * The Leicestershire Breed * The Cheshire Breed * The Dorsetshire Breed * The Kerry Breed * Fat-Producing Breeds of Cattle * The Short-Horn or Durham Breed * The Hereford Breed * The West Highland Scot * The Devon Breed * The Galloway Breed * The Angus Breed * Principles of Cattle Breeding * The Bull * The Ox * Reproduction, Rearing and Fattening * Cattle-Feeding * Preparation of Food * Food as Affecting the Quality and Quantity of Milk * The Dairy – Butter and Cheese-Making * The Dairy House * Churn * Premium Butter Making * Cheese and Cheese-Making * The Lactometer * Profits of the Cow * Of the Spaying of the Cow and the Advantages of this Operation * Care after the operation * Diseases and Remedies Chapter Three ~ The Domestic Sheep: The Domestic Sheep, Their Breeds, Management, Etc. * Breeds of Sheep in the United States * American Merinos * Saxon Merinos * The New Leicester or Bakewell * The South-Downs * The Cotswold * The Cheviots * Comparative Value of the Different Breeds of Sheep * General Management of Sheep * Care in the Handling of Sheep * The Season of Lambing * Care of the Lambs * The Substitute Lamb * After-Care of the Lambs * Twins * The Management of the Lambs * Castration * Docking * Spaying * Sheep-Washing * Sheep-Shearing * Winter Management * Winter Food * Medicines Employed in the Treatment of Sheep * Alteratives and Specific Medicines * Sedative and Febrifuge Medicines * Antispasmodics * Astringents* External Applications Chapter Four ~ The Domestic Hog: To Breed, Feed, Cut Up and Cure: Varieties of the Hog * The True Berkshire Pig * The Hampshire * The Yorkshire * Herefordshire * Gloucestershire * Northamptonshire * Norfolk * Leicestershire * Lincolnshire * The Essex * The Improved Essex * The Sussex * The Chinese Hog * The Suffolk Hog * How to Choose a Pig * Fertility * Form * Houses and Piggeries * Breeding, Rearing and Feeding * Castration and Spaying * Ringing * Chandlers’ Greaves * Time Requisite for Feeding Fat – Quantity of Food * The Chemistry of Pig Feeding * Diseases of Swine * Slaughtering and Curing * How to Cure Bacon and Hams * Westphalian Hams * Limerick Hams * Hampshire Hams * Livestock – Number to Be Kept, Etc * The Cream-Pot Breed of Cattle * To Estimate the Live Weight of Cattle Chapter Five ~ Domestic Poultry: View of the Importance of the Subject * Varieties of Domestic Fowl * The Cochin China * Spanish Fowls * The Minorca * The White Spanish * Andalusian Fowls * White-Crested Black Poland * Hamburg Fowls * The Black Hamburg * The Dorking Fowl * The Sussex * The Game Fowl * Bantams * The Domestic Turkey * The Wild Turkey * The Guinea Fowl * The Pea Fowl * The Domestic Goose * The Wild Goose * Feeding Poultry * Poultry Houses and Yards * Caponizing * Diseases of Fowls * Shipping Poultry and Eggs * Eggs Chapter Six ~ Bees, Their Habits and Management: Three Classes of Bees * The Queen Bee * Anecdote of Two Queen Bees * Drones * Working Bee * Wonderful Instincts and Contrivances of Bees * Advantages of Keeping Bees * Management of Bees * Transporting Bees * Spring Management * Feeding * Summer Management * Indications of Swarming * Bee Dress * Fall Feeding * Housing, etc., in Winter * Hives and Boxes * Enemies of Bees * Bee Flowers * Transporting Bees * Fumigation * Driving * Hives and Boxes Remember folks, this is an 1859 original. 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