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Milch Cows and Dairy Farming: Comprising the Breeds, Breeding, and Management, in Health and Disease, of Dairy and Other Stock, the Selection of Milch Cows, with a Full Explanation of Guenon's Method; The Culture of Forage Plants, and the Production of Milk, Butter, and Cheese: Embodying the Most Recent Improvements, and Adapted to Farming in the United States and British Provinces. With a Treatise upon the Dairy Husbandry of Holland; To Which Is Added Horsfall's System of Dairy Management — John Shaqi

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Milch Cows and Dairy Farming: Comprising the Breeds, Breeding, and Management, in Health and Disease, of Dairy and Other Stock, the Selection of Milch Cows, with a Full Explanation of Guenon's Method; The Culture of Forage Plants, and the Production of Milk, Butter, and Cheese: Embodying the Most Recent Improvements, and Adapted to Farming in the United States and British Provinces. With a Treatise upon the Dairy Husbandry of Holland; To Which Is Added Horsfall's System of Dairy Management

Name: Milch Cows and Dairy Farming: Comprising the Breeds, Breeding, and Management, in Health and Disease, of Dairy and Other Stock, the Selection of Milch Cows, with a Full Explanation of Guenon's Method; The Culture of Forage Plants, and the Production of Milk, Butter, and Cheese: Embodying the Most Recent Improvements, and Adapted to Farming in the United States and British Provinces. With a Treatise upon the Dairy Husbandry of Holland; To Which Is Added Horsfall's System of Dairy Management
Author: Flint, Charles Louis

Flint, Charles Louis

Cows; Dairying

Timothy grass -- June grass -- Meadow Foxtail -- Orchard grass, or
  Rough Cocksfoot -- Rough-stalked Meadow grass -- Fowl Meadow grass
  -- Rye grass -- Italian Rye grass -- Redtop -- English Bent -- Meadow
  Fescue -- Tall Oat grass -- Sweet-scented Vernal grass -- Hungarian
  grass, or Millet -- Red Clover -- White Clover -- Indian Corn --
  Common Millet (Panicum miliaceum) -- Rye -- Oats -- Chinese Sugar-Cane
  -- The Potato (Solanum tuberosum) -- The Carrot (Daucus carota) --
  Turnip (Brassica rapa) -- Mangold Wurzel -- Parsnip (Pastinaca sativa)
  -- Kohl Rabi (Brassica oleracea, var. caulorapa)--Linseed Meal--
  Rape-Cake -- Cotton-seed Meal -- Manures


  CHAPTER VII. MILK.                                                 199


  CHAPTER VIII. BUTTER AND THE BUTTER-DAIRY.                         217


  CHAPTER IX. THE CHEESE-DAIRY.                                      241

  Cheshire Cheese -- Stilton Cheese -- Gloucester Cheese -- Cheddar
  Cheese -- Dunlop Cheese -- Dutch Cheese -- Parmesan -- American Cheese


  CHAPTER X. THE DISEASES OF DAIRY STOCK.                            271

  Garget -- Puerperal or Milk Fever -- Simple Fever -- Typhoid Fever --
  Hoove or Hoven -- Choking -- Foul in the Foot -- Red Water -- Hoose --
  Inflammation of the Glands -- Inflammation of the Lungs -- Diarrhœa --
  Dysentery -- Mange -- Lice -- Warbles -- Loss of Cud -- Diseases of
  Calves -- Diarrhœa, Purging, or Scours -- Constipation or Costiveness
  -- Hoove -- Canker in the Mouth


  CHAPTER XI. THE DAIRY HUSBANDRY OF HOLLAND.                        295

  Milking and Treatment of Milk. -- Determination of the Milking
  Qualities of the Cows -- Treatment of Milk for Butter -- Methods of
  Churning -- Churning in the Common Churn -- The Lever Churn --
  Churning with an Elastic Rod -- Churning with the Treadle Lever --
  Churning by Horse-power -- Duration of the Churning -- Working and
  Treatment of Butter -- The Form of Fresh Butter -- The Packing of
  Butter in Firkins and Barrels -- Coloring of Butter -- Use of the
  Butter-milk -- The Manufacture of the different kinds of Dutch Cheese
  -- Cheese-making in South Holland -- Manufacture of Sweet Milk Cheese
  in South Holland -- The Use of the Whey of Sweet Milk Cheese -- May
  Cheese -- Jews’ Cheese -- Council’s Cheese -- New Milk’s Cheese --
  Cheese-making in North Holland -- The Utensils used in Cheese-making
  in North Holland -- Variety of North Dutch Cheeses, and the Trade in
  them -- Making of Edam Cheese -- The Red Color of Edam Cheese -- Use
  of the Whey of the North Dutch Sweet Milk Cheese


  CHAPTER XII. LETTER TO A DAIRY-WOMAN.                              355


  CHAPTER XIII. THE PIGGERY AS A PART OF THE DAIRY ESTABLISHMENT.    361


  APPENDIX.                                                          365

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