Milch Cows and Dairy Farming; Comprising the Breeds, Breeding and Management ... of Dairy and Other Stock ... With ... The Culture of Forage Plants
Boston: Crosby and Ainsworth, 1866. Reprint. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], viii, [1], 10-426, [6] pp. Brown blindstamped cloth with gold lettering and gold rules on the spine. Yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a frontispiece and with several wood-engraved in-text illustrations of cows, plants, and equipment for dairy farming. With information on the health and disease of dairy cows, selecting milk cows for production of milk, butter, and cheese, with recent advancements in dairy science, a treatise on the dairy husbandry of Holland, and with Horsfall's system of dairy management, adapted to American and British dairy farming. A fascinating examination of dairy science as it was in the nineteenth century. Very Good. Item #000010242
Traces of rubbing to the cloth; leaves show minor foxing.
Price: $75.00