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Domestic Animals

Richard Lamb Allen

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Raising livestock rewards the farmer who understands the animal. Allen sets out the principles of breeding, feeding, and management for domestic animals, explaining form, nutrition, and the workings of the body itself. A practical handbook rooted in sound husbandry. Learn to keep and improve the animals a farm depends on.

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274 chapters

  1. 1Transcriber's Notes
  2. 2DOMESTIC ANIMALS.
  3. 3INTRODUCTION.
  4. 4INDEX.
  5. 5CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY REMARKS—GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF BREEDING, NUTRITION, MANAGEMENT, c.
  6. 6PRINCIPLES OF BREEDING.
  7. 7GENERAL FORM AND CHARACTERISTICS.
  8. 8The Lungs.
  9. 9RESPIRATION IN ANIMALS.
  10. 10The Effects of Respiration.
  11. 11Perspiration
  12. 12The Food which supplies Respiration.
  13. 13Circumstances which augment Respiration.
  14. 14THE FEEDING OF ANIMALS.
  15. 15Purposes fulfilled by different Kinds of Food.
  16. 16The Changes in the Food of Animals.
  17. 17The Profit of Feeding.
  18. 18CHAPTER II. NEAT OR HORNED CATTLE.

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