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About This Book
ISBN13: 9780882660660 |
Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
The history and behavior of the cow.
Nutritional needs, from grass to milk.
Buying a cow — the sources, breeds and factors to consider.
Handling techniques, housing and fencing.
Feeds and feeding — cow and calf.
Milking and uses of milk.
Health and diseases, breeding and calving.
Growing feed crops, use of manure.
Synopsis:
Description:
About the Author
Table of Contents
Chapter One: How Now, (One Brown Cow)?
Chapter Two: A History of Cattle
Chapter Three: Behaving Herself
Chapter Four: Buying A Cow
Chapter Five: Handling and Grooming Cows
Chapter Six: Buildings, Staking, Fencing
Chapter Seven: The Plants Cows Eat
Chapter Eight: Taking It All In
Chapter Nine: A Choice of Foods
Chapter Ten: Measuring Feed Ingredients
Chapter Eleven: Grass/Hay and Concentrates — A Basic Diet
Chapter Twelve: Shaving the Food Budget
Chapter Thirteen: Milk and Milking
Chapter Fourteen: Milk and the Home Dairy
Chapter Fifteen: Breeding and Heat Periods
Chapter Sixteen: Calving and Calf-Feed — Care of Young Stock
Chapter Seventeen: Health
Chapter Eighteen: Keeping the Land
Chapter Nineteen: Making and Storing Hay and Roots
One More Thing
Glossary
Other Books and Places
Appendix
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780882660660
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Garden Way Pub. Co.
- Author:
- Location:
- Pownall, Vt. :
- Subject:
- General
- Subject:
- Agriculture & Animal Husbandry
- Subject:
- Vocational education and industrial arts
- Subject:
- Dairying
- Subject:
- Cows
- Subject:
- Dairy cattle
- Subject:
- Agriculture & Animal Husbandry - General
- Subject:
- Agriculture - General
- Copyright:
- 1976
- Edition Description:
- Paperback
- Series Volume:
- 7.70
- Publication Date:
- January 1976
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Grade Level:
- General/trade
- Language:
- English
- Illustrations:
- 6 x 9
- Pages:
- 272
- Dimensions:
- 9.00x6.01x.84 in. .86 lbs.










