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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.
Author: Richard L. Allen
Release Date: October 31, 2010 [EBook
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Language: English
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INTRODUCTION.
INDEX.
CHAPTER I. Introductory Remarks
—General Principles Of Breeding,
Nutrition, Management, &c.
CHAPTER II. Neat or Horned
Cattle.
CHAPTER III. The Dairy
CHAPTER IV. Sheep.
CHAPTER V. The Horse.
CHAPTER VI. The Ass.
CHAPTER VII. Swine.
CHAPTER VIII. Farm-Dogs.
CHAPTER IX. Poultry.
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.
By R. L. ALLEN,
AUTHOR OF "COMPEND OF AMERICAN
AGRICULTURE," ETC.
NEW-YORK:
ORANGE JUDD, 41 PARK ROW.
AGRICULTURAL BOOK PUBLISHER.
1865.
Entered according to an Act of Congress
in the year 1847
By RICHARD L. ALLEN,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court
of the United States for the Southern
District of New York.
INTRODUCTION.
The object of the following work, on the
History, Breeding, Management, Diseases,
&c., of Domestic Animals, is to afford the
Stock-breeder and Grazier a connected
view of the entire subject in which he has

so deep an interest. The writer has
endeavored to compress within the limited
space assumed as necessary to secure a
general circulation and perusal, such
principles and practice, and give to each
that relative prominence, which it
becomes the practical man to observe, to
realize the greatest amount of value for the
labor and capital devoted to his pursuits.
Their history is essential, as it shows their
introduction into the United States, their
progress during the various stages of their
improvement, and the comparative value
of the improved and ordinary breeds. A
knowledge of the best mode of breeding
and management is of still higher
importance. The first will enable the
breeder to preserve the high character of
the animals in his hands, or perhaps still
farther to advance them; while proper
management and feeding will prevent that
deterioration and loss from disease, which
frequently subtract so much from his
profits.
A larger space has been purposely
devoted to the last topics, in preference to
the subject of diseases, as prevention is
not only less troublesome than cure, but
much more economical. Feeding and
management, after breeding, are really the

important objects in view to the Stock-
breeder and Grazier, for if these be
judiciously attended to, disease among the
herds will rarely be known.
The subject of animal diseases is
complicated and little understood; and to
be properly comprehended, requires years
close, intelligent study, under every
advantage for obtaining the necessary
information. Nearly every disorder
assumes various shades of difference, and
to remove it effectually a corresponding
change of treatment is required. How
absurd then the idea, that a compilation of
formal remedies, administered by an
unskilful or inexperienced manager, will
be of material service in rescuing his
herds or flocks from the ravages of
disease. All that can consistently be done,
is to give a few simple remedies for the
most common and well-known ailments,
and leave to nature or a professional
farrier, such as are more complex or
unusual.
This work (with many subsequent and
important additions) constitutes a small
part of the "Compend of American
Agriculture," the favorable reception of
which, though but recently given to the
public, has induced the writer to offer this

important division of the subject in its
present detached form.
New York, November, 1847
INDEX.
Page
Animals, domestic, reared in the
U. States
9
their number and value 9
their improvement 10
adaptation to various
objects
10
general form and
characteristics
13
the lungs 14
respiration 14
effects of 17
perspiration 18
food which supplies
respiration
18
circumstances which
augment respiration
19
food 21
purposes fulfilled by food 22
nutritive qualities for

various animals
23
profit of feeding 23
See Cattle, Sheep, &c.
Ass, the 181
varieties 181
characteristics 182
breeding in the U. States 182
as a beast of burden 183

Breeding—principles of 11
See Cattle, Sheep, &c.

Cattle—neat or horned 26
various domestic breeds 26
native cattle 27
Devons 29
short horns 30
Herefords 35
Ayrshire 38
management of calves 39
breeding 41
breaking steers 42
management of oxen 42
fattening and stall-feeding 45
Diseases 41, 50
hoven 50
choking 52
inflammation of stomach 52
mange or scab 52

horn-ail—jaundice 53
mad-itch—bloody murrain 54
hoof-ail 55
loss of cud—scours or
diarrhœa—warbles or
grubs—wounds—puerperal
or milk-fever
56
caked bags—garget—sore
teats—warts
57
Cows for dairy 60
management of 61
milking 61
See Dairy.
Comparative value of oxen and
horses 190
Churns 69

Dairy, the 60
Dairy—selection and
management of cows
60, 61
milking 61
properties of milk 62
variations in 63
cream—clouted ditto 65
Making butter from sour,
sweet, and clouted cream
66, 67

sourness of cream 68
quickness in churning 68
over-churning 69
temperature of milk and
cream 69
advantages of churn'g the
whole
69
cleanliness in churning 70
premium butter, how made 70
Orange county do. do. 71
Making cheese, how effected 72
creamed and uncreamed 73
buttermilk cheese 73
whey do. 74
vegetable substances added 74
preparation of rennet 75
different qualities of cheese 77
warming the milk 77
quality of rennet 78
quantity of rennet 78
treatment of curd 79
separation of whey 80
cheese, salting 81
addition of cream 81
size of cheese 81
mode of curing 82
ammoniacal cheese 82
inoculating do. 82
premium cheese, how made 83

Ducks—see Poultry.

Farm dogs 207-214
Feeding defined 21
See Cattle, Sheep, &c.
Food, comparative nutritive
qualities of
22
how given, purposes
fulfilled by it
22
changes in 24
See Animals, Products, &c.

Geese—see Poultry.
Guinea-hen—see ditto.

Hens—see Poultry.
Hinny—see Ass.
Horse—the Arabian and Barb 138
the English 139
American 141
Arabians in America
139,
140
Ranger, the Barb—
Bussorah—Narraganset
pacers—Messenger,
imported
140

Morgan horses 142
Canadian and Spanish 143
Conestoga 143
Norman 144
Cart, Cleveland bay,
Belfounder
145
Eclipse, American 141
points of 146
habits 147
breeding 148
management of colts 149
breaking 150
longevity, feeding 151
Diseases 154
glanders 154
lampas, heaves, &c. 155
catarrh or distemper,
spasmodic colic
156
flatulent colic 158
inflammation of bowels 159
physicking 162
worms 164
bots 164
wind-galls 165
the fetlock 166
cutting 166
sprain of the coffin-joint—
ringbone

167
enlargement of the hock 168
curb 168
bone-spavin—swelled legs 170
grease 171
setons 173
founder—poison from
weeds
174
inflammation of the eyes 175
stings of hornets, &c. 175
sprain 175
bruises—fistula 176
wounds—galls 176
shoeing, contraction of the
foot
176
corns 177
over-reach, forging or
clicking
178
the bearing-rein 178
the bit 179
stables 180
comparative labor with
oxen
190

Mule, the—breeding in the U. S. 183
rearing and management 184

advantages over horse
labor
185
valuable qualities 185
enduringness of 186
in California 188
economy of mule-labor 189

Poultry—their value 214
Hens—constituent of eggs 214
food 215