From the rear cover
This is the basic book -- yet with all the essential details -- for the family that decides to keep a cow for all the benefits she can provide. Learn first the costs, the gains, what she gives and takes. There are practical, fully illustrated chapters that include:
- 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.
The Family Cow is complete with data charts and tables, a glossary of agricultural terms, and source lists of books and equipment.
Details
- Title The Family Cow
- Author Dirk Van Loon
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Second Printing
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Storey Publishing, Pownal, Vermont, U.S.A.
- Date 1976-01-03
- Features Glossary
- ISBN 9780882660660 / 0882660667
- Weight 0.99 lbs (0.45 kg)
- Dimensions 9.07 x 5.94 x 0.79 in (23.04 x 15.09 x 2.01 cm)
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Themes
- Demographic Orientation: Rural
- Library of Congress subjects Cows, Dairying
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 75026148
- Dewey Decimal Code 636.214
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