item: #1 of 104
          id: 10539
      author: Browne, Theo. Stephenson
       title: In the Riding-School; Chats with Esmeralda
        date: None
       words: 39455
      flesch: 74
     summary: They are good horses, but I don't believe that they practice circus tricks. If you cannot do it in the school, you cannot on the road, and many an ugly scrape against walls, horse-cars, and other horses you will receive unless you can keep to the right and in a straight line.
    keywords: american; esmeralda; foot; good; habit; half; hand; head; horse; know; lady; left; lessons; little; master; nell; place; reins; ride; riding; right; ring; saddle; school; teacher; time; trot; turn; way; whip; young
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        item: #2 of 104
          id: 10878
      author: Riley, Harvey
       title: The Mule: A Treatise on the Breeding, Training, and Uses to Which He May Be Put
        date: None
       words: 29152
      flesch: 78
     summary: Best Method of Breaking Value of Kind Treatment How to Harness Injured by Working too Young What the Mule can Endure Color and Peculiar Habits Mexican Mules, and Packing The Agricultural Committee Working Condition of Mules Spotted Mules Mule-Breeding and Raising How Colts should be Handled Packing Mules Physical Constitution Value of Harnessing Properly Government Wagons More about Breeding Mules Ancient History of the Mule Table of Statistics 14 Portraits of Celebrated Mules Diseases Common to the Mule, and how they should be treated CHAPTER I. It certainly is more profitable to raise good animals than poor ones; and you cannot raise good mules from bad mares, no matter what the jack is.
    keywords: animal; army; cases; disease; feet; foot; good; government; head; horse; man; mule; pounds; shoe; team; time; train; treatment; wagon; way; work; years
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        item: #3 of 104
          id: 10991
      author: Leighton, Robert
       title: Dogs and All about Them
        date: None
       words: 125875
      flesch: 70
     summary: Dr. Inman had for several years owned good dogs, and set about the work on scientific principles. Yet there have been, and are still, quite a large number of good dogs and bitches to be seen, and it only needs enthusiasm and co-operation among breeders to bring back the palmiest days of the Irish Water Spaniel.
    keywords: animal; appearance; beautiful; bitch; bitches; black; body; bone; breed; breeders; breeding; broad; brown; bulldog; case; chapter; chest; close; club; coat; colour; country; course; dark; day; days; deep; dog; dog shows; dogs; doubt; england; english; eyes; fact; feet; field; fine; flat; fore; fox; game; general; good; hair; head; hind; hocks; hounds; inches; irish; kennel; legs; length; level; light; line; liver; long; low; mrs; muzzle; neck; nose; owner; points; powerful; present; puppies; quarters; red; rough; round; set; shoulders; shows; size; skin; skull; smooth; spaniel; specimens; sporting; standard; strain; tail; tan; terrier; time; toy; type; variety; water; way; weight; white; work; years
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        item: #4 of 104
          id: 11204
      author: Reeks, H. Caulton (Harry Caulton)
       title: Diseases of the Horse's Foot
        date: None
       words: 140330
      flesch: 64
     summary: Suppurative periostitis is met with in foot cases, commonly in connection with punctured foot. The close contiguity of the joint (it can never be _far_ distant in foot cases), the spreading character of the disease, and the rapidity with which the horse succumbs to arthritis, are all factors to be taken into consideration, and to lead to a warning-note being struck when attending a case of such kind.
    keywords: animal; appearance; bone; cartilage; case; causes; changes; condition; contraction; coronet; crack; cushion; disease; fact; feet; fig; foot; form; frog; heels; hoof; horn; horse; illustration; injury; lameness; laminitis; laminæ; lateral; limb; navicular; operation; pain; pedis; plantar; point; portion; position; pressure; pus; quittor; result; sand; sensitive; shoe; simple; sole; structures; surface; symptoms; time; toe; treatment; veterinary; wall; weight; work; wound
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        item: #5 of 104
          id: 1176
      author: Xenophon
       title: On Horsemanship
        date: None
       words: 13989
      flesch: 80
     summary: How can a troop of horses be kept free of one another, if driven in this fashion from behind?--whereas a horse accustomed to be led from the side will have least power of mischief to horse or man, and at the same time be in the best position to be mounted by the rider at a moment's notice, were it necessary. Another point to ascertain is whether the horse, when mounted, can be induced to leave other horses, or when being ridden past a group of horses standing, will not bolt off to join the company.
    keywords: animal; bit; body; good; ground; hand; head; horse; iii; legs; man; mouth; rider; right; time
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        item: #6 of 104
          id: 13254
      author: Hastings, Milo
       title: The Dollar Hen
        date: None
       words: 74892
      flesch: 70
     summary: Such eggs may be sold for what they are, but should never be mixed with other eggs or sold as fresh. The huckster scheme of gathering eggs would seemingly be a means of obtaining good eggs because of the advantage of regularity of collection, but in reality it does not always work out that way.
    keywords: air; breeding; case; cent; chapter; chickens; chicks; cold; corn; cost; country; day; egg production; eggs; evaporation; fact; farm; farmer; feed; feeding; food; fresh; good; grade eggs; grain; ground; growing; hens; house; incubation; loss; man; market; means; meat; new; number; pay; poultry; poultry business; poultry farm; poultry plant; poultry production; poultry work; price; produce; production; quality; results; season; section; station; stock; storage eggs; system; temperature; time; water; work; year
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        item: #7 of 104
          id: 14293
      author: Brown, Bob
       title: The Complete Book of Cheese
        date: None
       words: 70643
      flesch: 81
     summary: Cheese butter Equal parts of creamed butter and finely grated or soft cheese and mixtures thereof. Encyclopedia of Practical Cookery_ says: Cheddar cheese is one of the kings of cheese; it is pale coloured, mellow, salvy, and, when good, resembling a hazelnut in flavour.
    keywords: american; beer; blue; bread; brie; brown; butter; camembert; caraway; chapter; cheddar cheese; cheese; cheese butter; cheese salad; cottage cheese; cow; cream cheese; creamy; cup; cups; curd; dessert cheese; dish; dry; egg; eggs; england; english; fine; flavor; flour; fondue; france; french; fresh; fromage; germany; goat cheese; good; grated; green; gruyère; half; hand cheese; hard; hot; imitation; inches; italy; limburger; little; making; mellow; mild; milk; milk cheese; mixture; mustard; new; onion; parmesan; pepper; place; pound; pour; rabbit; red; roquefort; salt; sauce; season; semihard; sheep; sheep cheese; sheep milk; skim; slice; small; smooth; soft; soup; sour; stir; swiss; switzerland; tablespoons; taste; teaspoon; time; toast; tomato; type; u.s.a; use; water; white; wine; york
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        item: #8 of 104
          id: 14776
      author: Kincaid, P. R.
       title: The Arabian Art of Taming and Training Wild & Vicious Horses
        date: None
       words: 18992
      flesch: 75
     summary: They have caused more horses to hurt or kill themselves, than would pay for twice the cost of all the leather halters that have ever been needed for the purpose of haltering colts. Horses were in general use for many centuries before anything like a protection for the hoof was thought of, and it was introduced, at first, as a matter of course, on a very simple scale.
    keywords: colt; half; halter; hand; head; hold; horse; kind; left; man; pull; right; saddle; stable; stand; time
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        item: #9 of 104
          id: 16370
      author: Lacroix, John Victor
       title: Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
        date: None
       words: 80537
      flesch: 50
     summary: The temperament of the animal must be considered in such cases, and if a lame horse is too active and playful when given his freedom, exercise must be restricted or prevented, as the case may require. In such cases there either follows a simple periostitis which may resolve spontaneously with no obvious outward symptom, or osteitis, which may occur with tissue changes, as in exostosis; or the case may produce any degree of reaction between these two possible extremes.
    keywords: acute; affection; animal; arthritis; bone; cases; cause; chronic; complete; condition; examination; exists; fig; flexor; foot; fracture; horses; infection; inflammation; injury; instances; joint; lameness; leg; ligaments; luxation; manner; member; muscles; nerve; occurs; pain; paralysis; parts; position; recovery; region; result; structures; subject; tarsal; tendons; time; treatment; weight; wound
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        item: #10 of 104
          id: 16744
      author: Pratt Food Company
       title: Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry
        date: None
       words: 30822
      flesch: 77
     summary: Pratts Cow Remedy] | | | |It costs as much to house and care for and nearly as much to feed a poor| |producer as a good one. I give all the credit for this remarkable improvement to Pratts Cow remedy.
    keywords: animal; birds; calves; chicks; condition; corn; cow; cows; daily; day; disease; disinfectant; fed; feed; feeding; flock; food; grain; health; hog; hogs; horse; illustration; lbs; meal; milk; parts; poultry; pratts; pratts animal; pratts poultry; regulator; remedy; time; treatment; use; water; | |
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        item: #11 of 104
          id: 18033
      author: Axtell, Edward
       title: The Boston Terrier and All About It A Practical, Scientific, and Up to Date Guide to the Breeding of the American Dog
        date: None
       words: 33205
      flesch: 69
     summary: A kennel man need never worry about sex, inasmuch as good dogs of either gender will always be in demand. A breeder who raises many dogs will have a very difficult feat to accomplish if he aspires to enter the show ring also.
    keywords: bitch; bitches; boston; boston terrier; breed; breeders; breeding; brindle; brindle dog; case; champion; chapter; club; color; course; dog; dogs; fact; illustration; kennels; man; markings; number; pounds; pups; standard; stock; tail; terrier; time; type; white; years
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        item: #12 of 104
          id: 19319
      author: Munn, William Augustus
       title: A Description of the Bar-and-Frame-Hive With an Abstract of Wildman's Complete Guide for the Management of Bees Throughout the Year
        date: None
       words: 14584
      flesch: 58
     summary: [Footnote 1: Mr. John Milton of No. 10, Great Marylebone-street, has some well constructed bar and frame bee-hives of various prices.] Other bees are at the same time busy in stopping all the holes and crevices they happen to find in their new hive, in order to guard against the entrance of insects which covet their honey, their wax, or themselves; and also to exclude the cold air; for it is indispensably necessary that they be lodged warm and secure from damp, &c.
    keywords: bees; board; box; combs; frame; grooves; half; hive; honey; inch; inches; observation; place; swarm; time; wax
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        item: #13 of 104
          id: 20279
      author: Korinek, Charles James
       title: The Veterinarian
        date: None
       words: 8912
      flesch: 71
     summary: Light, excepting in the treatment of eye diseases, is greatly to be desired. Bumblefoot Catarrh Catarrh of the crop Chicken pox Cholera of the fowl Congestion of the liver Constipation Corns Crop impaction Diarrhoea Diarrhoea, white Difficult laying Diphtheria Diphtheritic roup Double yolked eggs Dropsy Egg bound Egg eating Egg incomplete Eggs with two yolks Eggs without shells Enteritis Favus Feather eating Feather pulling Feeding of young poultry Fowl cholera Gapes Gastro intestinal catarrh Gout Head lice Hemorrhage of the brain How to feed young poultry Impaction of the crop Incomplete egg Infectious entero hepatitis of turkeys Inflammation of the crop Inflammation of the mouth Intestinal obstruction Jaundice Leg weakness Lice, body Lice, head Liver congestion Mange Mite, red Mouth inflammation Obstruction of the beak and throat Obstruction of the bile duct Obstruction of the crop Obstruction of the intestines Obstruction of the oviduct Paralysis of the crop Paralysis of the legs Pip Pulmonary congestion Red mite Rheumatism Roup, diphtheritic Scabies of the body Scabies of the legs Scaly leg Soft shelled eggs Sore head Sore mouth Throat and beak obstruction Thrush Tuberculosis Vent gleet Verminous tracheo bronchitis Warts White diarrhoea Worms MISCELLANEOUS Average Period of Gestation Average Period of Incubation Deposit or Investment Table Drenching of Animals Evolution of Stock Hereditary Tendencies Medicine in Capsules Normal Purse Throbs Normal Respiration Normal Temperature Prevention of Contagious Diseases Six Per Cent Interest Table Table of Valuable Drugs and their Doses Veterinary Facts and Advice to Remember
    keywords: bird; blood; cause; congestion; disease; feed; food; fowl; head; inflammation; symptoms; temperature; treatment; water; worm
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        item: #14 of 104
          id: 21900
      author: Goodale, S. L. (Stephen Lincoln)
       title: The Principles of Breeding or, Glimpses at the Physiological Laws involved in the Reproduction and Improvement of Domestic Animals
        date: None
       words: 36841
      flesch: 55
     summary: As nurses they are inferior to many other breeds. Suppose by employing other animals, better horses, better cows, oxen and sheep, he can get ten dollars per ton in returns.
    keywords: animals; attention; breed; breeding; case; cattle; cows; crossing; fact; female; food; form; general; horse; influence; law; male; milk; new; offspring; parent; progeny; qualities; sheep; size; stock; system; time; years
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        item: #15 of 104
          id: 22520
      author: McCombie, William
       title: Cattle and Cattle-breeders
        date: None
       words: 53713
      flesch: 80
     summary: Although the Galloways are such good cattle to graze--and this goes to prove the truth of my remarks as to the forcing system, the Galloways at Glenapp being wintered out--they are not so easily finished as our Aberdeen and Angus or cross-bred cattle. If a grazier has a number of fields and many cattle, to carry out the treatment of his cattle properly, shifting and fresh grass once in ten or fourteen days should, if possible, be adopted.
    keywords: 8vo; aberdeen; animal; author; beasts; book; breeder; breeding; bull; calf; captain; cattle; class; country; cow; cows; crown; day; days; disease; edition; fair; farm; father; feeding; good; grass; head; herd; highland; history; james; john; late; little; lot; man; market; men; new; north; price; professor; scotland; second; sir; stock; time; turnips; vols; way; william; years
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        item: #16 of 104
          id: 22561
      author: Anonymous
       title: Tame Animals
        date: None
       words: 912
      flesch: 89
     summary: WILD ANIMALS 33. TAME ANIMALS 34.
    keywords: animals; illustration; sheep
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        item: #17 of 104
          id: 22603
      author: Russell, John E. (John Edwards)
       title: Rational Horse-Shoeing
        date: None
       words: 7633
      flesch: 66
     summary: We wish, therefore, to state clearly at the outset, that the system of horse-shoeing herein advocated, and the shoe offered by us to accompany it and accomplish its purpose, are the result of years of patient study of nature, and actual experiment; and that although we have had to contend with ignorance and interest on the part of the farriers, and indifference and prejudice on the part of owners of horses, we have finally succeeded in interesting the most practical and capable men in America, England, and France in the matter; and, at the time of this publication, thousands of horses, engaged in the most arduous labors of equine life--upon railways, express wagons, transfer companies, and other similar difficult positions--are traveling upon our shoes, their labors lightened by its assistance, their feet preserved in a natural, healthy state, and their lives prolonged to the profit of their owners and the advancement of that cause--one of the evidences of the progress of our age in true enlightenment--which has for its beneficent object the prevention of cruelty to the dumb and helpless companions of our toil. GENERAL OBSERVATIONS. The first application of the Goodenough shoe is almost invariably to the feet of horses suffering from some one of the forms of foot disease, induced by the unnatural method of shoeing.
    keywords: action; contraction; disease; feet; foot; frog; hoof; horse; nature; shoe; shoeing; sole
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        item: #18 of 104
          id: 22771
      author: Jennings, Robert
       title: Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, and Feeding and Management; with the Diseases to Which They Are Subject, and the Remedies Best Adapted to Their Cure
        date: None
       words: 94211
      flesch: 65
     summary: If the abortion has been caused by blows or violence, whether from brutality, or the animal's having been teased by other cows in season, or by oxen, the symptoms are more intense. Their milk is influenced like that of other cows, though to a less extent, by the quality and quantity of food; so that in winter, unless the animal is properly attended to, the yield will decrease somewhat, but will rise again as good feed returns.
    keywords: animal; beef; blood; breed; breeding; calf; calves; cases; cattle; cloth; condition; country; cows; cut; dairy; day; days; disease; extent; farmer; fat; fed; feeding; fine; following; food; form; general; good; grass; hair; half; hand; hay; head; horns; illustration; life; milk; milking; mirror; new; ounce; parts; place; qualities; quality; quantity; size; skin; state; stock; symptoms; system; teeth; time; treatment; udder; use; water; way; years
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        item: #19 of 104
          id: 23403
      author: Huidekoper, Rush Shippen
       title: Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
        date: None
       words: 291872
      flesch: 59
     summary: The cheapest and most available for animal diseases are ordinary freshly slaked lime, or unslaked lime in powder form, chlorid of lime, crude carbolic acid, corrosive sublimate, formalin, formaldehyde, gas, cresol, etc. If from bed sores or other causes septicemia or pyemia is feared, the bisulphite of soda, in half-ounce doses, may be given in conjunction with tonics and such other treatment as is indicated in these diseases.
    keywords: acid; action; acute; air; animal; bladder; blood; body; bone; brain; cases; cause; chronic; cold; condition; congestion; cord; course; days; death; description; discharge; disease; doses; dram; dry; examination; excessive; eye; feed; feet; fever; foot; fore; form; formation; fracture; general; glanders; good; ground; half; hand; hard; head; heart; heels; high; hind; hoof; horn; horse; hot; hours; inflammation; injury; joint; lameness; left; leg; legs; limbs; lungs; mare; matter; means; membrane; mouth; muscles; neck; occurs; organs; ounce; pain; paralysis; parts; patient; place; pneumonia; portion; position; present; pressure; pulse; pus; rest; result; shoe; simple; skin; sole; solution; surface; swelling; symptoms; temperature; time; tissues; toe; treatment; tumor; urine; vessels; wall; warm; water; weight; womb; work; wound
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        item: #20 of 104
          id: 26318
      author: Hayes, Alice M.
       title: The Horsewoman: A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed.
        date: None
       words: 97977
      flesch: 72
     summary: My husband, in _Riding and Hunting_, says it is the fashion to wear spurs with top-boots, but many good horses go much better without them. When I rode him, I found he was always looking out for an excuse to play up, or to lash out at other horses.
    keywords: animal; case; country; curb; day; fact; fence; field; fig; find; foot; gate; grip; hand; head; horse; hounds; hunting; illustration; jumping; kind; ladies; lady; leaping; leather; left; leg; legs; length; little; man; men; mount; mouth; order; people; place; position; pressure; reins; rider; riding; right; saddle; safety; seat; skirt; snaffle; stirrup; time; trot; use; way; weight; whip; work; young
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        item: #21 of 104
          id: 26903
      author: Pope, George W. (George Whitfield)
       title: Determining the Age of Cattle by the Teeth
        date: None
       words: 468
      flesch: 65
     summary: [Illustration: FIG 1.--Internal face of incisors of the calf.] [Illustration: FIG 2.--Internal face of incisors at 2 years.]
    keywords: years
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        item: #22 of 104
          id: 27065
      author: Weeks, John M. (John Moseley)
       title: A Manual or an Easy Method of Managing Bees
        date: None
       words: 13586
      flesch: 69
     summary: Bees in large hives never swarm; and those in hives much less than the one already described, do but little else than raise young bees and lay up a sufficient quantity of food to supply them through the coming winter, and are more liable to be robbed. Bees swarm from nine o'clock in the morning to three o'clock in the afternoon on a fair day, differing in the season according to the climate.
    keywords: bees; drawer; hive; honey; place; queen; rule; season; swarm; swarming; time
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        item: #23 of 104
          id: 28090
      author: Ward, C. S.
       title: Hints on Driving
        date: None
       words: 6702
      flesch: 73
     summary: Not long after this interview, the Brighton Day Mail being about to start, he made me the offer, to drive the whole distance and horse the coach a stage, with the option of driving it without horsing. During the last twenty-five years I have been engaged keeping livery stables and breaking horses to harness, and in that period I have had some very narrow escapes.
    keywords: box; coach; coachman; driving; good; horses; london; mail; road; time
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        item: #24 of 104
          id: 28612
      author: Rarey, J. S. (John Solomon)
       title: A New Illustrated Edition of J. S. Rarey's Art of Taming Horses With the Substance of the Lectures at the Round House, and Additional Chapters on Horsemanship and Hunting, for the Young and Timid
        date: None
       words: 77420
      flesch: 72
     summary: When held and guided properly, few horses resist more than ten minutes; and it is believed that a quarter of an hour is the utmost time that any horse has ever fought before sinking exhausted to the earth. Other horses, cattle, pigs, and even dogs or fowls moving about or making a noise, will spoil the effect of a good lesson.
    keywords: 8vo; bit; bridle; chapter; cloth; colt; country; course; day; days; english; field; foot; fore; fox; good; half; halter; hand; head; history; hold; horse; horseman; hounds; hunting; kind; lady; lead; left; legs; life; lord; man; men; minutes; neck; new; pack; place; plan; price; pull; rarey; reins; ride; riding; right; round; run; saddle; scent; seat; stable; stand; strap; system; time; training; turn; use; walk; way; whip; work; years; young
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        item: #25 of 104
          id: 28686
      author: Oates, W. Coape
       title: Wild Ducks: How to Rear and Shoot Them
        date: None
       words: 12551
      flesch: 73
     summary: The latter will bring on young birds quicker than anything. The debit side of the account will now work out as follows:-- Food for ducklings £16 0 0 Food for old birds 4 13 9 Extra food alluded to above 0 15 0 Expenses for sitting hens 1 0 0 --------- £22 8 9 As against these figures there are 250 young ducks for sale: deduct from this number fifteen for casualties of various kinds, such as dead birds unpicked at the shoot, odd birds that may stray and be killed, &c., and this gives 235.
    keywords: birds; day; ducks; eggs; food; guns; hens; nest; number; time; water
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        item: #26 of 104
          id: 29248
      author: Anonymous
       title: The Young Lady's Equestrian Manual
        date: None
       words: 16458
      flesch: 61
     summary: It is, also, excessively rapid;--good _pacers_ beating other horses at a gallop. Page INTRODUCTION 7 EQUESTRIAN TECHNICALITIES 23 THE LADY'S HORSE 26 PERSONAL EQUIPMENTS 31 ACCOUTREMENTS FOR THE HORSE 33 RULES OF THE ROAD 34 MODE OF MOUNTING 36 MANAGEMENT OF THE REINS 41 THE SEAT AND BALANCE 44 AIDS AND DEFENCES 51 SOOTHINGS AND ANIMATIONS 55 CORRECTIONS 58 VICES 60 EXERCISES IN THE PACES 71 THE WALK 73 THE TROT 79 THE CANTER 81 THE GALLOP 84 STOPPING AND BACKING 85 LEAPING 87 DISMOUNTING 91 CONCLUDING REMARKS 95
    keywords: body; hand; horse; illustration; lady; left; leg; position; reins; rider; right; saddle; whip
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        item: #27 of 104
          id: 30310
      author: Dickson, Dr. (William)
       title: Special Report on Diseases of Cattle
        date: None
       words: 255399
      flesch: 61
     summary: Those which are cheapest and most available for animal diseases are ordinary freshly slaked lime or unslaked in powder, chlorid of lime, crude carbolic acid, corrosive sublimate, formaldehyde gas, formalin, and compound cresol solution. It is characterized by the peculiarity among animal diseases that the animals which disseminate the infection are apparently in good health, while those which sicken and die from it do not, as a rule, infect others.
    keywords: abdomen; acid; acute; affecting; air; animal; anthrax; appearance; bacilli; bladder; blood; body; bones; calf; calves; cases; cattle; cause; cent; chest; cold; condition; cord; course; cow; cows; cut; days; death; description; disease; effect; end; examination; eye; feed; feet; fetus; fever; fig; fluid; following; foot; form; formation; fracture; general; half; hand; head; heart; herd; hind; infection; inflammation; injury; left; limbs; lime; liver; loss; lungs; means; membrane; method; milk; mouth disease; muscles; neck; number; oil; opening; operation; organs; ounces; pain; parts; passages; place; point; poisoning; portion; position; presence; present; pressure; produce; red; result; right; second; size; skin; solution; stage; states; stomach; surface; swelling; symptoms; temperature; ticks; time; tissue; treatment; tuberculosis; tumors; udder; urine; vessels; water; way; womb; wound; | |
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        item: #28 of 104
          id: 31957
      author: Unknown
       title: Lectures on Horsemanship Wherein Is Explained Every Necessary Instruction for Both Ladies and Gentlemen, in the Useful and Polite Art of Riding, with Ease, Elegance, and Safety
        date: None
       words: 11093
      flesch: 34
     summary: Xenophon_, who wrote three hundred years before the Birth of _Christ_, says, in an express treatise which he wrote on Horsemanship, that Cyrus hunted on Horseback, when he had a mind to exercise himself and horses. The knowledge of the different characters, and different natures of horses, together with the vices and imperfections, as well as the exact and just proportions of the parts of a horse's body, is the foundation upon which is built the theory of the art of horsemanship; but this theory will be useless and even unnecessary if we are not able to carry it into execution.
    keywords: body; hand; horse; horseman; lady; left; reins; right; saddle
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        item: #29 of 104
          id: 32189
      author: Smith, Allen Christian
       title: The Raising and Care of Guinea Pigs A complete guide to the breeding, feeding, housing, exhibiting and marketing of cavies
        date: None
       words: 6769
      flesch: 85
     summary: Guinea Pigs ship very easily. Good young breeding stock is to be preferred by one beginning to raise Cavies, because they have a longer life before them and if you get old stock you cannot tell how old they are.
    keywords: breeding; cavies; chapter; females; food; guinea; pigs; stock; young
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        item: #30 of 104
          id: 32300
      author: Mayhew, Edward
       title: The Dog
        date: None
       words: 177289
      flesch: 70
     summary: Here you have the pure English Pointer, and as that is the best type of the dog, we shall not attempt to describe the Spanish one, which is not by any means equal to the English, and is, moreover, so quarrelsome, that he cannot be kennelled with other dogs. At this stage more dogs are lost for want of knowledge what next to do than in any other way; for they are either getting worse or better, never standing still, and each day's illness tells much against the recovery, from the great emaciation and weakness which commences from the first, and keeps increasing daily.
    keywords: animal; attention; birds; bitch; body; case; close; cold; course; creature; day; days; disease; disorder; distemper; dog; dogs; employed; eye; field; find; fits; food; form; game; good; grains; great; ground; gun; half; hand; having; head; hour; hunt; hunting; kind; left; long; man; manner; means; medicine; mouth; nature; nose; object; operation; pain; parts; place; point; present; pup; pups; quantity; right; run; scent; shooting; shot; skin; spaniels; sufficient; symptoms; teeth; time; treatment; use; water; way; word; work
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        item: #31 of 104
          id: 32554
      author: O'Connor, John Lawrence
       title: History of the Kentucky Derby, 1875-1921
        date: None
       words: 44171
      flesch: 79
     summary: Take it all in all, one cannot help but say that they were a bad lot of Derby horses, and if such a horse as Ben Brush, Ornament, Halma or Alan-a-Dale had been there they would have looked like $200 selling platers. Well, if they are Derby colts, Pink Star will walk in.
    keywords: ben; betting; colt; crowd; dam; day; derby; favorite; field; fifth; finish; fourth; going; good; half; head; horse; imp; jockey; kentucky derby; lbs; lead; lengths; little; long; louisville; mile; neck; olds; place; pole; post; quarter; race; running; second; sir; stand; start; stretch; time; track; turn; value; way; winner; year
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        item: #32 of 104
          id: 33029
      author: Slocum, Rob R. (Rob Roy)
       title: Ducks and Geese
        date: None
       words: 59161
      flesch: 78
     summary: The cost of maintaining them will not be great and they will not only provide a most acceptable variety in the form of duck meat and duck eggs for the farmers' table but they will also produce a surplus which can be sold at a profit. A few ventures of this sort seem to have been successful but it must be remembered that the market for duck eggs is not nearly so broad as that for hens' eggs and that in some quarters there exists considerable prejudice against duck eggs for table consumption.
    keywords: birds; breeders; breeding; breeding ducks; breeds; brooder; color; drake; duck eggs; ducklings; ducks; eggs; farms; fattening; feathers; feed; feeding; geese; good; goose; goose eggs; goslings; hatching; house; industry; market; size; time; water; white; yards
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        item: #33 of 104
          id: 33084
      author: None
       title: Practical Angora Goat Raising
        date: None
       words: 18761
      flesch: 77
     summary: In 1893, the first importation of Angora goats from South Africa, which was of value to American flocks, arrived. In 1838, Col. Henderson made the first importation of Angora goats into South Africa, but while the number reaching the Cape was fourteen, yet only two proved to be perfect animals, a doe and her kid.
    keywords: angora; angora goat; animal; asia; bailey; bucks; common; day; fleece; flocks; goats; importation; inches; kids; minor; mohair; sheep; skin; years
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        item: #34 of 104
          id: 33371
      author: Trecartin, John S.
       title: Raising P. V. Squabs for Profit
        date: None
       words: 6234
      flesch: 81
     summary: Good squabs can be raised in any structure, free from dampness, that has sunlight and can be protected from rats. By_ JOHN S. TRECARTIN A Manual of Instruction from My Personal Experience in Building, Stocking and Managing the Largest Successful Squab Plant in New Jersey Tells how we market squabs for twelve dollars per dozen, wholesale.
    keywords: birds; breeders; chapter; eggs; feed; nest; pigeons; squabs
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        item: #35 of 104
          id: 33830
      author: Harding, A. R. (Arthur Robert)
       title: Fur Farming A book of Information about Fur Bearing Animals, Enclosures, Habits, Care, etc.
        date: None
       words: 35233
      flesch: 74
     summary: Some of the first experimenters in raising skunk and other fur animals, dug a trench from 2 to 3 feet deep, putting in rocks or boards edgewise to keep them from digging out, on top of which they constructed an upright fence of boards from 4 to 7 feet. Some reports from those that have experimented in a small way at raising fur animals is to the effect that they do not fur properly.
    keywords: animals; breeding; business; coon; deer; elk; enclosure; feet; fence; food; fox; foxes; fur; good; ground; mink; muskrat; number; opossum; parts; raising; season; skunk; states; time; trap; water; wire; year; young
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        item: #36 of 104
          id: 33972
      author: Florida State Live Stock Association
       title: Florida: An Ideal Cattle State
        date: None
       words: 16741
      flesch: 67
     summary: Then followed a four days' careful trip over the properties and herd of the Kissimmee Island Cattle Company, where I saw Brahma cattle, Hereford cattle and Shorthorn cattle in various grades, and their herd of Florida cattle bought last year. In the last few years the Brahma cattle have come into prominence, and every investigation that I have made shows that they will undoubtedly prove a great factor in the evolution of Florida cattle.
    keywords: beef; bermuda; breeding; cattle; conditions; country; development; florida; grass; grasses; land; live; pasture; range; soils; south; state; stock; texas; time; water; years
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        item: #37 of 104
          id: 34044
      author: Lockard, John Ready
       title: Bee Hunting: A Book of Valuable Information for Bee Hunters Tells How to Line Bees to Trees, Etc.
        date: None
       words: 13158
      flesch: 80
     summary: I have found more bee trees by the plan now given than perhaps any other. Many bees were found in this way, but if they went any great distance two or more fires had to be built.
    keywords: bait; bees; course; hive; home; honey; hunter; hunting; place; time; tree; water
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        item: #38 of 104
          id: 34175
      author: Allen, Richard Lamb
       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.
        date: None
       words: 82764
      flesch: 69
     summary: He stood in different places in New Jersey, and in Dutchess, Westchester, and Queens counties in New York; and upon the mares derived from the foregoing and other good horses, he got a numerous progeny of illustrious descendants. Other large breeds_ deserving commendation in this country, are the large _Miami white_, the _Yorkshire white_, and the _Kenilworth_, each frequently attaining, when dressed, a weight of 600 to 800 lbs.
    keywords: animal; attention; blood; breeding; breeds; butter; cattle; cheese; cold; country; cow; cream; curd; day; disease; fed; feeding; fig; fine; fleece; flocks; food; form; general; good; grain; half; hay; head; horse; hours; illustration; improvement; inflammation; lbs; legs; little; management; merino; milk; oil; parts; qualities; quality; quantity; salt; sheep; size; states; stomach; time; use; water; weight; white; wool; work; years; young; | |
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        item: #39 of 104
          id: 34259
      author: Hartley, Oliver
       title: Hunting Dogs Describes in a Practical Manner the Training, Handling, Treatment, Breeds, Etc., Best Adapted for Night Hunting as Well as Gun Dogs for Daylight Sport
        date: None
       words: 44664
      flesch: 81
     summary: There are plenty of fox dogs that are good coon dogs, and a great many coon dogs will run a fox to a finish, but the fox and coon dogs are two very different dogs. I for one can surely recommend this cross to make good 'coon dogs.
    keywords: bark; blood; coon; coon dog; coon hound; day; dog; dogs; fox; fox dog; fox hound; game; good; half; hound; hunter; hunting; illustration; kind; man; place; pont; pups; right; run; time; trail; training; tree; use; water; way; work
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        item: #40 of 104
          id: 34376
      author: Robinson, John H. (John Henry)
       title: Our Domestic Birds: Elementary Lessons in Aviculture
        date: None
       words: 87624
      flesch: 69
     summary: Many smaller birds are more brilliant in color. At first fowl was applied to large birds and bird to small ones, but gradually the use of the name fowl was limited to the common domestic fowl, and bird became the generic name for all feathered creatures.
    keywords: america; attention; birds; black; breeding; breeds; chickens; color; common; conditions; ducks; eggs; england; farm; feathers; fig; flock; food; fowls; geese; goose; growing; hens; house; illustration; kinds; male; market; nest; new; number; people; pheasants; photograph; pigeons; place; poultry; races; size; species; states; stock; time; turkeys; type; use; varieties; variety; water; way; white; wild; years; young
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        item: #41 of 104
          id: 35258
      author: MacNeal, Ward J.
       title: Contagious Abortion of Cows
        date: None
       words: 5947
      flesch: 56
     summary: The transmissibility of contagious abortion of cows appears to have been demonstrated experimentally for the first time by Brauer. BACTERIOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS ELSEWHERE Nocard carried out the first extensive bacteriological investigation of contagious abortion.
    keywords: abortion; animals; bacillus; bang; bull; cows; cultures; disease
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        item: #42 of 104
          id: 35448
      author: Various
       title: Herd Record of the Association of Breeders of Thorough-Bred Neat Stock Short Horns, Ayrshires and Devons
        date: None
       words: 76845
      flesch: 76
     summary: =320 Silver Medal,= Calved May 2d, 1857; bred by B. H. ANDREWS, Waterbury, Conn.; the property of WM. =152 Hyacinth,= Calved January 2d, 1862; bred by and the property of ANTHONY BIDERMAN, Wilmington, Del. Sire HECTOR 46; 2d sire Carroll Eclipse 18. Dam LUCERNE (1388) by Godwin (207); 2d dam Edith (679).
    keywords: 2d dam; 2d sire; 4th; 5th; 6th; 7th; april; bloomfield; bull; calved; conn; county; dam arabella; dam atalanta; dam baltimore; dam beauty; dam daisy; dam duchess; dam fairy; dam flora; dam jane; dam lady; dam lily; dam pocahontas; dam red; dam stella; dam strawberry; dam topsy; dam victoria; dam yarico; fancy; h. h.; hurlbut; john; mass; north; patterson; prince; property; red; rose; sire albert; sire bloomfield; sire comet; sire duke; sire frank; white; winchester; y. sire; young
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        item: #43 of 104
          id: 35450
      author: Weir, Harrison
       title: Our Cats and All About Them Their Varieties, Habits, and Management; and for Show, the Standard of Excellence and Beauty; Described and Pictured
        date: None
       words: 71536
      flesch: 75
     summary: I have _seen_ cats sent to shows taken out of _small boxes_, _dead_, stifled to death--poor things. Occasionally one sees, at the corners of some of the London streets, a man who professes to have _trained_ cats and birds; the latter, certainly, are clever, but the former have a frightened, scared look, and seem by no means comfortable.
    keywords: animal; black; blue; body; breed; brown; case; cat; cat club; cat shows; cats; colour; crystal; dark; day; domestic; ears; english; eyes; feet; food; form; fur; good; gray; hair; head; house; illustration; kind; kittens; legs; length; light; long; male; man; markings; mice; nose; number; orange; palace cat; persian; place; points; red; rich; round; silver; size; small; tabby; tail; time; tortoiseshell; tortoiseshell cat; varieties; variety; water; way; white; wild; yellow; young
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        item: #44 of 104
          id: 35521
      author: Whyte-Melville, G. J. (George John)
       title: Riding Recollections, 5th ed.
        date: None
       words: 66727
      flesch: 76
     summary: He calmed, however, before the end of the burst, which was a very brilliant gallop, over a practicable country, and when I sent him home at two o'clock, I felt satisfied I had a game, good horse, that would soon make a capital hunter. Yet it is extraordinary how many good fellows riding good horses find themselves defeated in a gallop after hounds, from indecision and uncertainty, rather than want of courage, when the emergency actually arises.
    keywords: 8vo; animal; art; bridle; chase; cloth; country; crown; day; demy; discretion; edition; end; fall; fence; field; find; fox; friend; gallop; good; ground; half; hand; head; home; horse; hounds; hunter; hunting; illustrations; leap; legs; life; line; lord; man; moment; mounted; nature; new; pack; place; post; pull; rider; riding; right; run; saddle; science; seat; second; sir; stride; time; turn; use; vols; way; â£1
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        item: #45 of 104
          id: 36565
      author: Dargan, Olive Tilford
       title: The Welsh Pony, Described in two letters to a friend
        date: None
       words: 10503
      flesch: 64
     summary: The following spring, at the London Horse Show, I saw some splendid specimens of thoroughbred Welsh mountain ponies ridden by children, and my wife One of these, which will affect the pony's future, so long as ponies be, was an Act of Parliament that enables breeders to clear the Commons of all stallions which a competent committee decides are undesirable.
    keywords: blood; forest; hands; hills; horse; illustration; longmynd; lord; man; mountain; mountain pony; ponies; pony; time; type; wales; welsh; welsh pony; years
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        item: #46 of 104
          id: 36645
      author: Stubbs, William Carter
       title: Louisiana Beef Cattle
        date: None
       words: 3630
      flesch: 53
     summary: In a consideration of any branch of the live stock industry, a review of the world-wide conditions becomes necessary to establish a standard of comparison between the industry in a given locality as against all other localities, and such a review at the present time shows an international shortage of beef cattle that even threatens famine. According to official estimates of the United States Government, in 1910 there were 41,178,000 head of beef cattle in the United States, having a value of $785,261,000, while on January 1, 1917, there were 40,849,000 head of beef cattle, having a value of $1,465,786,000; a decrease in supply, but an increase in value, within seven years, of 86.66 per cent.
    keywords: cattle; herds; louisiana; pounds; states; united; year
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        item: #47 of 104
          id: 36701
      author: Wayte, Samuel C.
       title: Graceful Riding: A Pocket Manual for Equestrians
        date: None
       words: 10798
      flesch: 72
     summary: SAFE for holding the reins, when using _one_ or _both_ hands. When rearing_, the whole weight of horse and rider being thrown perpendicularly on the animal's hind legs, the _most trifling_ check from the rider's hand would cause him to fall backwards; the rider must drop his hand as before, loosen the reins, and throw his whole weight on his shoulders, at the same time catching him 'round the neck with his right hand.
    keywords: body; hand; head; horse; lady; left; position; reins; rider; right; saddle; stirrup
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        item: #48 of 104
          id: 37041
      author: Rodriguez, Carlos
       title: Preservation of Bull Semen at Sub-Zero Temperatures
        date: None
       words: 12820
      flesch: 59
     summary: A number of investigations in other laboratories have now proven that milk can be used as effectively as the yolk-citrate diluent for freezing bull sperm.[6],[7] Table 5.--Comparison of the Freezability of 4 Semen Samples in Different Extenders ====================================================================== Dilution Pre- Post- Motility Extender rate freezing thawing Survival after (semen: motility motility (percent) storage[E] extender) (percent) (percent) (percent) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yolk-citrate 1:1 60 49 82 46 1:10 53 45 85 36 Yolk-saline 1:1 57 29 51 28 1:10 60 31 52 24 Yolk-phosphate 1:1 55 33 64 25 1:10 60 43 72 25 Whole milk 1:1 60 40 67 35 1:10 60 35 58 16 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Table 16.--Effect of Freezing Procedures on Oxygen Utilization of Bull Sperm in Yolk-Citrate Extender (Average of 5 ejaculates) ===================================================================== Microliters of oxygen Semen sample tested utilized per 10^{8} sperm -------------------------- First hour Second hour --------------------------------------------------------------------- Fresh diluted semen 10.3 8.1 Fresh diluted semen glycerol tipped in at end of first hour 9.7[L] 12.9[L] Aged 20 to 24 hours at 5° C. 11.2 8.3 Aged 20 to 24 hours at 5° C. glycerol tipped in at end of first hour 11.8[L] 12.9[L] After 20 hours equilibration with glycerol 11.7[L] 7.8[L] After freezing and thawing 9.7 6.3 --------------------------------------------------------------------
    keywords: = =; = citrate; bull =; freezing; glycerol; percent; rate =; semen =; sperm; | =; ° c.
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        item: #49 of 104
          id: 37295
      author: Gates, Burton N. (Burton Noble)
       title: Soft Candy for Bees
        date: None
       words: 1545
      flesch: 73
     summary: 1.--These are the usual and convenient types of candy box or feeder. The latest formula or recipe for the cream, or soft candy, fondant, which is practically a confectioner's recipe, is as follows:-- 12 pounds granulated sugar.
    keywords: box; candy; | |
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        item: #50 of 104
          id: 37329
      author: Stables, Gordon
       title: The Domestic Cat
        date: None
       words: 39969
      flesch: 81
     summary: Rabbits and cats often associate together on the most friendly terms, even accompanying each other in long excursions, the cat on these occasions electing herself protector of her feebler friend against predatory dogs and other cats. We have other cats in the house, but I never feel jealous, for my mistress, look you, loves me better than all the cats in the kingdom--fact--she told me so.
    keywords: animal; black; cat; cats; coat; colour; day; dog; door; eyes; food; good; head; home; house; kitten; lady; life; love; master; mice; milk; mistress; morning; mother; night; pussy; size; tabby; thing; time; tom; tortoiseshell; water; way; white
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        item: #51 of 104
          id: 37445
      author: Jenkins, T. A.
       title: The Lady and Her Horse Being Hints Selected from Various Sources and Compiled into a System of Equitation
        date: None
       words: 11598
      flesch: 59
     summary: Horses are by degrees made obedient, through the hope of recompense, as well as the fear of punishment; to use these two incentives with judgment, is a very difficult matter, requiring much thought, much practice and good temper; mere force, and want of skill, and coolness, tend to confirm vice and restiveness. Weakness_ frequently drives horses into being vicious, when any thing beyond their strength is required of them: great care should therefore be taken, to ascertain from what cause the opposition arises.
    keywords: hand; horse; lady; left; leg; reins; rider; right; whip
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        item: #52 of 104
          id: 37901
      author: Dare, Carl
       title: Profitable Squab Breeding
        date: None
       words: 19640
      flesch: 77
     summary: INCREASING PRICES Squabs have constantly increased in price in the larger markets for several years, and hundreds of new towns have come in with a call for good squabs. I believe I have thoroughly tried and tested the merits of all the leading varieties of squab producing pigeons and right here I wish to caution the beginner against paying fancy prices for highly advertised cross-bred stock.
    keywords: birds; breeders; breeding; business; feed; house; loft; market; nest; pair; pigeons; squabs; stock; time; water; way; year
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        item: #53 of 104
          id: 37997
      author: Dadd, George H.
       title: The American Reformed Cattle Doctor Containing the necessary information for preserving the health and curing the diseases of oxen, cows, sheep, and swine, with a great variety of original recipes, and valuable information in reference to farm and dairy management
        date: None
       words: 108807
      flesch: 65
     summary: [4] Inflammation is a vital action, and cannot be properly termed _diseased_ action. If they are unclean, they got their first lessons from the lords of creation, by being confined in narrow, filthy sties--often deprived of light, and pure air, by being shut up in dark, underground cellars, to wallow in their own excrement; at other times, confined beneath stables, dragging out their existence in a perfect hotbed of corruption--respiring the emanations from the dung and urine of other animals; and often compelled to satisfy the cravings of hunger by partaking of whatever comes in their way.
    keywords: action; animal; blood; body; boiling; breed; cases; cattle; cause; cheese; cold; cow; cows; cure; day; diet; disease; dose; external; farmer; fever; following; food; form; general; good; half; hand; head; health; hours; inflammation; little; manner; matter; means; milk; mix; nature; night; operation; organs; ounce; parts; pint; place; powdered; power; practice; quantity; quarts; sheep; skin; spoonful; state; stock; stomach; surface; system; table; tea; time; treatment; use; water; | |
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        item: #54 of 104
          id: 38184
      author: Baucher, François
       title: New Method of Horsemanship Including the Breaking and Training of Horses, with Instructions for Obtaining a Good Seat.
        date: None
       words: 37195
      flesch: 67
     summary: [Illustration: MR. BAUCHER, upon Partisan.] NEW METHOD OF HORSEMANSHIP, INCLUDING THE BREAKING AND TRAINING OF HORSES, WITH INSTRUCTIONS FOR OBTAINING A GOOD SEAT. ILLUSTRATED. The captain-instructors and one lieutenant from the troops of horse stationed in the neighborhood of Paris will be ordered to Luneville during those months to study the Baucher system.
    keywords: animal; education; exercise; forces; hand; head; horse; left; legs; means; method; movement; neck; order; parts; position; rider; right; time; use
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        item: #55 of 104
          id: 38189
      author: Blacklock, Ambrose
       title: A Treatise on Sheep: The Best Means for their Improvement, General Management, and the Treatment of their Diseases.
        date: None
       words: 69601
      flesch: 65
     summary: Digestion._[3]--The food descends by the gullet after being partially crushed, into what is called the first stomach, or paunch, in Latin, _rumen_, or _ingluvies_, in which cavity are found those morbid concretions so much, and so superstitiously, prized in the Eastern world, under the name of Bezoar stones; from this it passes into the second, termed bonnet, king's hood, or honey-comb, in Latin _reticulum_, which is much smaller than the other, and receives its name from the inner coat being arranged into cells; here it is moistened, made into pellets, and, while the animal is at rest, impelled by the antiperistaltic motion of the tube to the mouth, and after undergoing a complete mastication, is returned through the gullet to the third stomach, or smallest compartment, which goes under the name of _omasum_, or many-plies, from its resembling a rolled up hedgehog, and sometimes from the longitudinal _ Ryeland_ sheep, from a district in the southern part of Herefordshire being thought capable of growing nothing but rye.
    keywords: animal; attention; blood; breed; british; causes; cloth; country; disease; england; ewes; fact; fat; fig; fine; fleece; flock; following; food; foreign; form; general; good; hair; having; head; lambs; lbs; manner; matter; means; nature; new; number; parts; pasture; period; place; quantity; ram; rot; sheep; skin; small; state; subject; symptoms; thing; time; trade; treatment; value; variety; water; way; white; wool; woollen; years
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        item: #56 of 104
          id: 38321
      author: Fraser, Wilber J. (Wilber John)
       title: Economy of the Round Dairy Barn
        date: None
       words: 10024
      flesch: 79
     summary: = 285.36 | = 337.81 | = 337.81 C | 44,000 @ $3.75 | 45,000 @ $3.75 | 45,000 @ $3.75 | = 165.00 | = 168.75 | = 168.75 D | | 20.88 | --+---------------------+---------------------+--------------------- E | =$799.76=| =$1023.27=| =$1233.41= ==+=====================+=====================+===================== F | =117,669= | =117,138= | =117,138= ==+=====================+=====================+===================== TABLE 1B. A: Framing lumber, B: Sheathing, siding, and flooring, C: Shingles, D: Bolts, E: Total cost of lumber, F: Content, cubic feet, ==+=====================+=========================================== | | Rectangular barn, 36 × 176-3/4 ft. | | | in barn, | =$2023.83= | =$2717.99= | =$3207.88= ========================+=============+=============+=============== Actual money saved, | | =$694.16= | =$1184.05= ------------------------+-------------+-------------+--------------- Proportional cost, | =100%= | =134%= | =158%= ========================+=============+=============+=============== The square feet of floor space in the round barn 90 feet in diameter and rectangular barn 36 × 176-3/4 feet are the same, but the cubical content of the former is more than that of the latter.
    keywords: + =; = +; = =; = |; barn; feet; round; | =
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        item: #57 of 104
          id: 38467
      author: Rankin, James
       title: Natural and Artificial Duck Culture
        date: None
       words: 40413
      flesch: 80
     summary: The majority of people have the impression that water to bathe in is essential to secure fertility in duck eggs, but it is a great mistake. Doubtless everyone knows that an incubator, different from other machines, must run three weeks continually night and day, (and when filled with duck eggs, four weeks,) and preserve an even temperature all the while.
    keywords: birds; breeding; building; business; cent; day; days; ducklings; ducks; eggs; end; feed; feet; food; good; hatch; heat; machine; market; poultry; question; rankin; size; thing; time; water; weeks; yards; young
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        item: #58 of 104
          id: 38606
      author: Piper, Hugh
       title: Poultry A Practical Guide to the Choice, Breeding, Rearing, and Management of all Descriptions of Fowls, Turkeys, Guinea-fowls, Ducks, and Geese, for Profit and Exhibition.
        date: None
       words: 56708
      flesch: 69
     summary: Uncertain as this appears, the accounts of those who pretend to trace their origin as cross-bred fowls is, at least, equally so, and I believe we may just act towards the Brahmas as we do with regard to Dorkings and other good fowls, and be satisfied to possess a first-rate, useful kind, although we may be unable to trace its genealogical tree back to the root. It was sufficiently proved by Spallanzani that the digestive fluid was incapable of dissolving grains of barley, &c., in their unbruised state; and this he ascertained by filling small hollow and perforated balls and tubes of metal or glass with grain, and causing them to be swallowed by turkeys and other fowls; when examined, after twenty-four and forty-eight hours, the grains were found to be unaffected by the gastric fluid; but when he filled similar balls and tubes with bruised grains, and caused them to be swallowed, he found, after a lapse of the same number of hours, that they were more or less dissolved by the action of the gastric juice.
    keywords: birds; black; breed; breeding; chapter; chickens; cock; cold; colour; comb; day; eggs; feathers; fed; feet; fine; flesh; food; fowls; grain; ground; hen; hens; house; laying; legs; meal; nest; number; place; poultry; run; size; time; water; white
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        item: #59 of 104
          id: 38831
      author: Henderson, Robert, active 1866-1874
       title: The Barb and the Bridle A Handbook of Equitation for Ladies, and Manual of Instruction in the Science of Riding, from the Preparatory Suppling Exercises
        date: None
       words: 61328
      flesch: 64
     summary: Her genius (if I may be permitted the expression), joined to close application and the best of opportunities of riding good horses, enabled her in a brief space to far outstrip all her youthful competitors, and in less than twelve months after the time I speak of she could execute most of the bending lesson, at a canter as well as a professional rider, while over the country with hounds she was always close to her pilot, than whom there was no better man. The present form of treating hunting horses is diametrically the reverse of the foregoing.
    keywords: action; bridle; canter; case; figure; foot; form; hand; head; horse; hounds; hunting; instructor; ladies; lady; left; leg; lesson; man; master; place; pupil; reins; rider; riding; right; saddle; school; shoulder; time; turn; waist; way; whip
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        item: #60 of 104
          id: 39205
      author: Jennings, Robert
       title: Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc.
        date: None
       words: 136037
      flesch: 67
     summary: They feed principally on seeds, fruit, and herbage, but also, to a considerable extent, on insects, worms, and other small animals. It seems to be of a scaly texture; although is not so evident as in many other animals, on account of a peculiar substance--the yolk--which is placed on it, to protect and nourish the roots of the wool.
    keywords: animal; appearance; birds; black; blood; body; bone; breed; breeding; case; cock; cold; color; common; condition; country; day; days; disease; dry; eggs; ewes; fat; feathers; fed; feeding; feet; fine; fleece; flesh; flock; food; form; fowl; good; goose; ground; half; head; hen; hens; illustration; lambs; legs; long; merino; mutton; neck; number; parts; place; poultry; pounds; price; purpose; quality; quantity; ram; sheep; size; skin; state; time; treatment; varieties; variety; water; weather; weight; white; wild; winter; wool; years; young
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        item: #61 of 104
          id: 39235
      author: Williams, Leslie, Mrs.
       title: A Manual of Toy Dogs: How to breed, rear, and feed them
        date: None
       words: 35401
      flesch: 70
     summary: Personally I should not like to send little toy dogs to a show without some trusted attendant, and I cannot, therefore, advise anyone else to do otherwise. Beating little dogs is useless and unkind, but a mild scolding may be given and the infant be carried out by the scruff of its neck.
    keywords: bitch; black; body; case; club; coat; colour; day; disease; dogs; ears; eyes; food; good; hair; head; lbs; legs; meat; milk; nose; oil; points; puppies; size; skin; tail; tan; teeth; time; toy; toy dogs; toys; way; white
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        item: #62 of 104
          id: 39244
      author: Dodge, Theodore Ayrault
       title: Patroclus and Penelope: A Chat in the Saddle
        date: None
       words: 41098
      flesch: 78
     summary: Many horses will naturally fall into a canter if you shake the reins; but some who come of trotting stock will not do so without considerable effort; and still such a horse is often the best one to buy. But I have seen many horses who would do this very readily inside school walls, who were very stupid or refractory on a straight bit of road.
    keywords: bit; canter; day; feet; foot; gait; good; hand; head; horse; lead; legs; man; means; neck; nelly; patroclus; reins; rider; riding; right; road; saddle; school; seat; time; training; trot; use; walk; way; work
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        item: #63 of 104
          id: 39357
      author: Sanborn, Charles Emerson
       title: Texas Honey Plants
        date: None
       words: 8127
      flesch: 72
     summary: Pulse family. Pulse family.
    keywords: april; august; bees; brood; college; common; coulter; family; honey; honey yield; hunter; july; june; leguminosae; march; places; plants; pollen; prairies; pulse; southern; states; texas; tree; waste; western; yield
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        item: #64 of 104
          id: 39501
      author: O'Donoghue, Power, Mrs.
       title: Ladies on Horseback Learning, Park-riding, and Hunting, with Hints Upon Costume, and Numerous Anecdotes
        date: None
       words: 64234
      flesch: 72
     summary: If you have to cross a river or very wide ditch, come fast at it, in order that the impetus may swing you safely over; few horses can cross a wide jump without having what is called a run at it. This lady says that the nicest bridle for a beginner is a plain ring-snaffle, but states further that few horses will go in it; the latter remark, if correct, (which I should venture to doubt), raises a fatal objection to the ring-snaffle, as I fear that not one young lady in twenty, under amateur teaching, would be put upon a perfectly trained nag, desirable as this must be; and thus an ordinary stout mouth plain snaffle, or plain bar with single rein, would surely be preferable.
    keywords: animal; boots; bridle; close; country; course; day; experience; fall; field; foot; good; habit; hand; head; horse; horseback; hounds; hunting; ladies; lady; left; life; london; man; men; mount; mrs; o'donoghue; opinion; place; power; ride; riders; riding; right; road; saddle; safety; seat; spur; stirrup; straight; subject; time; trot; use; way; weight; whip
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        item: #65 of 104
          id: 39605
      author: Bussigny, H. L. de (Henry L. de)
       title: Hand-book for Horsewomen
        date: None
       words: 19302
      flesch: 76
     summary: This is the basis of the whole manege system, and it is thus that horses are made to _passage_, to _piaffer_, or even to trot backward. I was tempted to make this digression, which I hope will be forgiven me, because I have heard in this country a great deal of adverse and, in my opinion, unjust criticism of the English trot, which I ascribe to the neglect of teachers, and the indifference of ladies brought up in the old school of riding to prefer horses which cantered all the time, or were broken to artificial gaits, like racking and pacing.
    keywords: cts; foot; hand; horse; left; leg; order; paper; pupil; rider; riding; right; saddle; teacher; time; trot
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        item: #66 of 104
          id: 39610
      author: Kerr, W. A. (William Alexander)
       title: Riding for Ladies
        date: None
       words: 26898
      flesch: 69
     summary: A blood, or at furthest, two crosses of blood on a good foundation, horse will carry this weight as well as it can be carried. There has been a certain moral obliquity attached to dealing in horses ever since, and probably before, they of the House of Togarmah traded in Tyrian fairs with horses, horsemen, and mules.
    keywords: bit; body; bridle; case; foot; good; habit; hand; head; horse; ladies; lady; leather; left; leg; legs; mouth; near; position; rein; rider; riding; right; saddle; seat; stirrup; time; trot; word
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        item: #67 of 104
          id: 40055
      author: Bechstein, Johann Matthäus
       title: The Natural History of Cage Birds Their Management, Habits, Food, Diseases, Treatment, Breeding, and the Methods of Catching Them.
        date: None
       words: 137440
      flesch: 73
     summary: This may be natural or artificial, the former being as varied as the species of the birds, for I know of no two indigenous species quite similar in their song; I ought, perhaps, to except the three species of shrike I have given, which, from their surprising memory, can imitate the songs of other birds so as to be mistaken for them: but a naturalist would soon perceive a slight mixture of the song natural to the imitator, and thus easily distinguish between the shrike that copied, and the titlark or red-breast copied from[1]. None of our woodland songsters produces more striking, vigorous, and prolonged sounds than the nightingale; and none is known with so ample and strong a larynx: but as we are able to improve the organisation of the body by exercise and habit, so may we strengthen and extend the larynx of several birds of the same species, so as to amplify the song in consequence, by more nutritive food, proper care, sounds that excite emulation, and the like; chaffinches, bullfinches, canaries, and other birds reared in the house, furnish daily examples of this.
    keywords: beak; bechstein; belly; birds; black; blue; body; bread; breast; brown; buffon; cage; canary; colour; confinement; coverts; dark; day; der; eggs; end; eyes; feathers; fed; feet; female; fine; food; green; grey; half; having; head; house; inches; insects; iris; length; light; lines; linnã; meal; neck; nest; nightingale; ones; place; plumage; red; room; seed; sides; sing; size; small; song; species; spring; tail; throat; time; water; white; wild; wings; winter; worms; year; yellow; young
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        item: #68 of 104
          id: 40157
      author: Elfer, William André
       title: Breeding minks in Louisiana for their fur: A profitable industry
        date: None
       words: 3056
      flesch: 73
     summary: Mink fur advanced about fifty per cent. And those who are so fortunate as to start in the industry now will, when minks will have become so rare that trapping will be unprofitable, and the demand so great that the prices for mink fur will soar higher and higher--those persons, I say, of foresight, who had the good fortune to start in the business early, will reap each year the steady advances in the price of mink fur, and be able, in a word, to command the fur market of both Europe and America.
    keywords: farm; feet; fur; minks
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        item: #69 of 104
          id: 40220
      author: De Hurst, C.
       title: How Women Should Ride
        date: None
       words: 31059
      flesch: 69
     summary: With saddle horses, although not so important, it is an advantage to have them clipped, because a cold day is certain to make the rider go steadily to keep warm, and the horse, becoming overheated (if his coat is heavy), is in great danger of taking cold if permitted to stand for a moment in a draught. Otherwise she may get pocketed by the wire, which few horses here are trained to jump, and which, therefore, should not be ridden at.
    keywords: animal; curb; good; hand; head; hold; horse; jump; left; mouth; place; reins; rider; riding; right; saddle; sidenote; snaffle; time; way; whip; woman
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        item: #70 of 104
          id: 40256
      author: Crawford, Albert Cornelius
       title: Barium: A Cause of the Loco-Weed Disease
        date: None
       words: 37752
      flesch: 71
     summary: Geographical distribution of the loco-weed disease and allied conditions 9 Plants associated with the locoed condition 10 Clinical symptoms of locoed animals as described in literature 12 Conditions similar to loco-weed poisoning in other parts of the world 16 Pathological conditions in locoed animals as described on the range 18 Historical sketch of loco investigations from a pharmacological standpoint 19 Notes on various members of the loco-weed family 35 Laboratory experiments--physiological 36 Experiments on rabbits 36 Acute cases 36 Chronic cases 38 Pregnant animals 42 Subcutaneous injections 43 Summary of feeding experiments on rabbits 44 Experiments on sheep 44 Laboratory experiments--chemical 46 Effect of the aqueous extract of ashed loco plants 49 Total ash determinations of loco plants 54 Barium determinations in the ash of loco plants 55 Analysis of soils 57 Feeding experiments with barium salts on animals in the laboratory 57 Barium poisoning in man 62 Pathological lesions in experimental barium poisoning 65 Toxicity of various aqueous extracts of loco plants 66 Theoretical antidote for loco-weed poisoning 71 Action of barium on domestic and farm animals 72 Application of the results of these investigations to the range 74 Conclusions 75 Index 77 BARIUM, A CAUSE OF THE LOCO-WEED DISEASE. Stipa vaseyi_, _Leucocrinum montanum_, _Fritillaria pudica_, _Zygadenus elegans_,[17] and even species of Delphinium are considered loco plants, so widely has this name been used.
    keywords: acid; action; animal; aragallus; ash; astragalus; barium; cent; chlorid; day; disease; experiments; extract; fed; feeding; grams; investigations; loco; loco disease; loco plants; loco weed; locoed; mollissimus; p.m.; plants; poisoning; rabbit; reference; sheep; stomach; symptoms; temperature; vol; water; weed; weight; work
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        item: #71 of 104
          id: 40318
      author: Fisk, W. W. (Walter Warner)
       title: The Book of Cheese
        date: None
       words: 110783
      flesch: 77
     summary: One of the greatest sources of bacterial contamination of cheese milk is the use of the milk-cans to return whey to the farms for pig feed. [136] Sammis, J. L., Correct payment for cheese factory milk by the Babcock test, Wis. Exp.
    keywords: = =; = |; acid; acidity; bacteria; brick cheese; bul; camembert cheese; casein; cent; cheddar cheese; cheese =; cheese color; cheese factory; cheese flavor; cheese making; cheese ripening; composition; conditions; content; cottage cheese; cream cheese; curd; curd cheese; curing; cut; development; exp; factories; fat |; fig; flavor; forms; group; inches; making; manufacture; milk cheddar; milk cheese; milk curd; milk |; moisture; mold; neufchâtel; organisms; pages; portion |; process; product; quality; rennet; room; roquefort cheese; salt; starter; surface; table; temperature; test; texture; time; use; vat; water; whey; | =; | pounds; | |
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        item: #72 of 104
          id: 40684
      author: Karr, Elizabeth
       title: The American Horsewoman
        date: None
       words: 73014
      flesch: 68
     summary: That the tub trick would prove equally effectual with other horses in teaching them to place themselves well on their haunches cannot be positively stated. Any horse is liable to do this when he has not been properly exercised, especially if he is with other horses, when a spirit of rivalry is aroused, and he sometimes becomes almost unmanageable from excitement.
    keywords: animal; bit; body; bridle; canter; curb; foot; fore; gallop; hand; head; horse; lady; lady rider; leap; left; leg; legs; manner; mouth; movements; pommel; position; reins; rider; riding; right; saddle; seat; snaffle; stirrup; time; trot; turn; whip
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        item: #73 of 104
          id: 40872
      author: Burnham, Geo. P. (George Pickering)
       title: The History of the Hen Fever. A Humorous Record
        date: None
       words: 70455
      flesch: 78
     summary: I filled the orders as they came,--first come, first served,--and for several months I found my list of promises six or eight weeks in advance of my ability to meet them with _genuine_ eggs. But my friend the Doctor wanted to put forth something that would take better than his Plymouth Rocks; and so he consulted me as to a name for a brace of _grey_ fowls I saw in his yard.
    keywords: barnum; birds; boston; breed; burnham; business; chapter; chickens; china; cochin; committee; country; day; dollars; doubt; dozen; eggs; england; exhibition; fancy; fever; following; fowls; friend; gentleman; good; great; grey; hand; hen; hens; house; john; kind; know; long; man; men; money; months; new; pair; people; poultry; present; president; price; saw; shanghae; sir; society; specimens; state; stock; thing; time; trade; way; white; years; york
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        item: #74 of 104
          id: 4221
      author: Boldrewood, Rolf
       title: Shearing in the Riverina, New South Wales
        date: None
       words: 10015
      flesch: 76
     summary: Red Bill, Flash Jack, Jem the Scooper, and other roaring blades, more famous for expedition than faithful manipulation, are shearing today with a painstaking precision, as of men to whom character is everything. This important ceremony over, master and men, manager, labourers and supernumeraries, betook themselves to their separate abodes, with such keen avoidance of delay that in five minutes not a soul was left in or near the great building lately so busy and populous, except the boys who were sweeping up the floor.
    keywords: day; gordon; half; jack; man; men; pounds; shearers; shearing; shed; sheep; shorn; time; weather; wool; work
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        item: #75 of 104
          id: 42559
      author: Mills, Enos A.
       title: The Story of Scotch
        date: None
       words: 8516
      flesch: 84
     summary: I carried little Scotch all day long in my overcoat pocket as I rode through the mountains on the way to my cabin. I took him in my hands and assured him that the visitor was welcome, and in a moment little Scotch and the cowboy were side by side gazing at the fire.
    keywords: cabin; cold; feet; fire; long; night; scotch; snow; time; way; wind
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        item: #76 of 104
          id: 42767
      author: Martin, Annie, Mrs.
       title: Home Life on an Ostrich Farm
        date: None
       words: 80842
      flesch: 62
     summary: It is a pretty sight when, at sundown, these neatest and most delicately-plumaged of little birds collect in large numbers to drink at the dams. Although little ostriches are such good travellers, it is anything but easy to transport full-grown ones about the world.
    keywords: africa; animals; appearance; away; birds; black; bobby; book; cape; chicks; close; cloth; country; course; creatures; day; days; dog; eggs; end; england; english; eyes; farm; feathers; feet; flowers; food; friends; good; hand; head; home; house; human; karroo; kind; legs; life; little; looking; making; manner; morning; nest; new; night; ostrich; ostriches; place; plants; poor; pretty; red; room; round; run; south; t----; table; time; toto; veldt; water; way; white; work; years; young
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        item: #77 of 104
          id: 42888
      author: Laymon, Hermon Basil
       title: Fur Farming for Profit, with Especial Reference to Skunk Raising
        date: None
       words: 19747
      flesch: 78
     summary: A well known fur dealer in Minneapolis sizes up the situation in a nut-shell: Under proper conditions, with intelligent care, raising fur animals can be made to pay. Some reports from those who have experimented in a small way at raising fur animals is to the effect that they do not fur properly.
    keywords: animals; black; breeding; business; care; dens; females; fur; good; sac; scent; skin; skunk; tail; time; use; way; white; year; young
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        item: #78 of 104
          id: 43087
      author: Boylan, Thomas
       title: Total Per Cent Lambing Rules
        date: None
       words: 8468
      flesch: 81
     summary: We admit lambing ewes in large numbers successfully is somewhat of a fine art, still common sense, patience and endurance will allow any one adapted to the care of live stock--which means a person who appreciates the worth and meaning of life in any form--to lamb sheep. Docking lambs in old corrals is dangerous, because it is unsanitary--many lambs are likely to die if left standing in old corrals after being cut at docking time.
    keywords: days; ewes; feed; good; lambing; lambs; sheep; time
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        item: #79 of 104
          id: 43093
      author: Lennox, William Pitt, Lord
       title: Coaching, with Anecdotes of the Road
        date: None
       words: 49672
      flesch: 66
     summary: Here, then, were ten hours consumed each day in travelling twenty-seven miles, and nearly two days in performing what was afterwards done under six hours by the Defiance and other coaches. Having dwelt at considerable length upon stage coaches and stage coachmen, I now turn to amateurs who have distinguished themselves on the box, and who were perfectly competent to take the reins in the event of an accident to the regular driver.
    keywords: accident; bath; box; carriages; chapter; coach; coaches; coaching; coachman; country; day; days; driver; driving; duke; england; following; gentleman; good; guard; half; hand; head; hill; horses; hour; house; inn; inside; journey; late; left; life; london; lord; mail; men; miles; morning; new; night; o'clock; outside; passengers; persons; place; post; present; public; rail; rate; road; sir; stage; streets; team; time; town; travelling; vehicle; way; whip; white; year; young
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        item: #80 of 104
          id: 43323
      author: Curtis, T. D. (Thomas Day)
       title: Hints on cheese-making, for the dairyman, the factoryman, and the manufacturer
        date: None
       words: 34099
      flesch: 74
     summary: We have heard it remarked, that almost anybody can make good cheese of perfectly sweet milk; but it is a smart chap indeed who can make good cheese of poor milk. It is not claimed that the use of the hot iron will necessarily insure the making of good cheese.
    keywords: acid; butter; care; cheese; cream; curd; factory; good; heat; making; milk; new; pounds; process; quality; rennet; salt; temperature; time; use; utica; vat; water; way; weather; whey; work
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        item: #81 of 104
          id: 43580
      author: Gilbey, Walter, Sir
       title: Horses Past and Present
        date: None
       words: 18908
      flesch: 68
     summary: The step taken by the Queen's advisers, with Lord Melbourne, the Prime Minister, at their head, was deeply regretted by all interested in horse breeding, as one seeming to imply that the national sport would no longer receive the patronage of the Throne. Charles would seem to have been conscious that excessive attention to breeding light horses was a national question; at all events, that animals of a more generally useful stamp were scarce; for in 1641 he granted licenses for the importation of horses, enjoining the licensees to import coach horses, mares, and geldings not under 14 hands, and between the ages of three and seven years.
    keywords: breeding; coach; country; england; george; henry; horses; king; london; lord; mares; newmarket; plates; post; queen; races; racing; reign; royal; stone; time; turf; use; work; year
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        item: #82 of 104
          id: 43895
      author: Corbett, Edward
       title: An Old Coachman's Chatter, with Some Practical Remarks on Driving
        date: None
       words: 72682
      flesch: 68
     summary: But if care is necessary in the case of gentlemen's work, what must have been that required with coach horses--especially if running over long stages, with heavy loads and in hot weather. The general establishment of mail coaches took place in the spring of 1788.
    keywords: arr; birmingham; box; case; chapter; coach; coaches; coachman; course; day; days; distance; doubt; driving; drove; end; following; general; good; guard; half; hand; hill; horses; hour; journey; left; london; long; mail; mail coach; miles; near; night; number; office; passengers; place; post; rate; reins; road; running; shrewsbury; small; stage; subject; time; travelling; use; way; wheel; work; years
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        item: #83 of 104
          id: 43930
      author: Rule, Philip M.
       title: The Cat: Its Natural History; Domestic Varieties; Management and Treatment
        date: None
       words: 26337
      flesch: 69
     summary: But they unfortunately took a form of distemper, and all died, and other cats by the side of them. I have seen other cats that were more unhappy complain more: one, for instance, which was the only one I had kept out of a litter, and which died at ten days old, just as it was beginning to open its eyes; in her grief at having lost all her other kittens, the mother used to carry this one about from place to place, and even leave it alone for hours at a time; I believe it died from bad treatment and insufficient feeding; the poor little thing frequently uttered loud moanings.
    keywords: animal; black; box; cat; cats; colour; day; days; eyes; good; hand; head; kittens; light; milk; mitis; mother; movements; noise; paws; place; riquet; round; tabby; tail; time; way
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        item: #84 of 104
          id: 43998
      author: Haynes, Williams
       title: The Airedale
        date: None
       words: 17929
      flesch: 75
     summary: It is well known that the greatest number of good dogs are bred by owners of from one to five bitches, for they study their needs more carefully and can give the puppies better attention. A party of us, fresh from some bench show, were seated round a table waiting for dinner, and naturally we were talking dog, telling dog stories, anecdotes, and jokes.
    keywords: airedale; bitch; breed; breeding; class; clonmel; coat; day; days; dog; dogs; food; head; kennel; new; owner; place; points; puppies; ring; shows; terrier; time; water; way
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        item: #85 of 104
          id: 44472
      author: Conover, Mary Roberts
       title: Making a Poultry House
        date: None
       words: 7603
      flesch: 76
     summary: The size of the lumber necessary for any of these buildings is about the same: Timber for sills, 5 × 6 in.; cross-beams and main supports, 4 × 3 in.; intermediate joists, supports, and rafters, 2 × 4 in.; and for weather boards and floor boards, any convenient width. A windbreak of some kind on the cold side of the building is a decided advantage--a wall, an evergreen hedge, a grove, or other buildings, will protect the poultry house, and, perhaps, also a portion of the runs, with benefit to the poultry.
    keywords: boards; building; feet; floor; fowls; house; inches; nests; poultry; roof
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        item: #86 of 104
          id: 44477
      author: Curtis, T. D. (Thomas Day)
       title: Hints on Dairying
        date: None
       words: 28695
      flesch: 75
     summary: of young clover hay will keep a cow in good milk; and that this contains of dry organic substance, 23 lbs., of which is digestible--albuminoids 3.21, carbohydrates 11.28, and fat 0.63. With good milk and proper facilities, there is no valid excuse for failure.
    keywords: acid; animals; blood; breed; butter; cheese; cow; cows; cream; curd; dairy; degrees; fat; flavor; food; good; lbs; making; meal; milk; rennet; salt; stock; temperature; time; use; water; whey
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        item: #87 of 104
          id: 44492
      author: Waring, George E. (George Edwin)
       title: Whip and Spur
        date: None
       words: 44847
      flesch: 68
     summary: Good horses there were, of course, though very few good saddle-horses (America is not productive in this direction),--and the possible animals were held at impossible prices. Half old farm-house and half wayside-inn; with a marvellous larder, through whose glass-closed side the guest sees visions of joints and jams and pastry in lavish profusion; backed by a stable-yard where boys are always exercising good horses; and flanked by a yardful of quaint clipped yews,--the old house at Wansford (in spite of its dull-looking road front) is worth a visit from those who would get out of the sight and sound of steam, and see the old, old country life of England.
    keywords: army; camp; cavalry; come; command; company; country; day; days; enemy; evening; feet; field; forrest; fox; good; half; hand; hard; head; home; horse; hounds; hunting; lay; left; life; line; man; march; max; men; miles; morning; near; new; night; old; order; regiment; riding; road; ruby; service; time; town; way; work; years
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        item: #88 of 104
          id: 45372
      author: Haworth, M. E. (Martin E.)
       title: Road Scrapings: Coaches and Coaching
        date: None
       words: 31443
      flesch: 72
     summary: It is a pretty sight to see a team of coach horses at a roadside change prepared and turned round, each one listening anxiously for the horn which proclaims the arrival of the coach, and the commencement for them of a ten-mile stage, which may have to be done perhaps in fifty-two minutes, with a heavy load, woolly roads, and the wind behind. Many horses working in the coaches of the present day have occupied very creditable places in the hunting-field, and, should they return thither, will be found none the worse for having been summered in a stage-coach.
    keywords: carriage; chapter; coach; coaches; coaching; coachman; day; days; driver; end; friend; half; hand; harness; horses; lal; life; london; mail; man; men; miles; night; place; pounds; public; reins; road; room; round; snow; stage; team; time; way; work; years
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        item: #89 of 104
          id: 45377
      author: Lane, Charles Henry
       title: All About Dogs: A Book for Doggy People
        date: None
       words: 61895
      flesch: 68
     summary: Many good dogs are only twenty-eight and twenty-nine inches high, but from thirty-one to thirty-three are to be desired. Of course there are notable exceptions, but I greatly fear that other dog breeds, which have been warmly pushed of late years, in every possible way, and, generally, by interested parties, have disheartened the breeders of some of the Toy Spaniels, or, we should see more good ones coming out!
    keywords: appearance; arched; black; body; breed; bull; chest; class; close; coat; colour; country; course; dark; day; deep; dogs; english; eyes; feet; fine; following; friend; hair; head; illustration; irish; legs; long; man; neck; nose; otter; owner; points; pounds; round; set; shoulders; shows; size; smooth; spaniel; specimens; tail; tan; terrier; time; toy; variety; water; way; weight; white; work; years; | |
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        item: #90 of 104
          id: 45754
      author: Burch, Frederick S.
       title: ABC Butter Making: A Hand-Book for the Beginner
        date: None
       words: 7181
      flesch: 75
     summary: MAXIMS FOR A B C BUTTER-MAKERS 54 HOW TO MAKE GOOD BUTTER. To make good butter we must cool our milk rapidly.
    keywords: butter; churn; cows; cream; dairy; illustration; milk; milking; use; water
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        item: #91 of 104
          id: 46696
      author: Bourgelat, Claude
       title: A New System of Horsemanship
        date: None
       words: 39834
      flesch: 52
     summary: Now, that these Parts may be kept without Motion, they ought to have a certain Hold and Center, if I may so say, to rest upon, which no Motion that the Horse can make, can disturb or loosen; this Point or Center is the Basis of the Hold which the Horseman has upon his Horse, and is what is called the _Seat_. They should then be kept near the Sides of the Horse, and in a Line with the Man's Body; for being near the Part of the Horse's Body where his Feeling is most delicate, they are ready to do their Office in the Instant they are wanted.
    keywords: action; body; croupe; feet; fore; hand; haunches; horse; left; legs; order; right; shoulders; time; trot
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        item: #92 of 104
          id: 47162
      author: Mayhew, Edward
       title: The Horse's Mouth, Showing the age by the teeth
        date: None
       words: 45048
      flesch: 69
     summary: At four years, four pair of horse teeth are well up, but the corner milk teeth are retained. At four years, four pairs of horse teeth are well up, but the corner milk teeth are retained.
    keywords: age; animal; appearance; corner teeth; crusta; cut; ditto; enamel; fores; form; horse; horse teeth; illustration; incisor teeth; incisors; jaw; milk teeth; molars; mouth; petrosa; present; tables; teeth; time; tooth; upper; wear; wood; years
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        item: #93 of 104
          id: 48546
      author: Benton, Frank
       title: Bee Keeping
        date: None
       words: 20316
      flesch: 70
     summary: The most active agents in this work are honey bees. In portions of southern Europe sulla clover is a most important forage crop for farm stock as well as for honey bees. =Serradella= is an annual leguminous plant which will grow on sandy land, and which yields, besides good forage, clear honey of good quality in June and July.
    keywords: apiary; bees; brood; case; cells; colonies; colony; combs; conditions; experiment; fig; frames; hive; honey; illustration; queen; season; sections; station; swarming; time; wax; wintering; work; yield
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        item: #94 of 104
          id: 48547
      author: Phillips, Everett Franklin
       title: Bees
        date: None
       words: 20158
      flesch: 72
     summary: Such spraying not only kills off honey bees, causing a loss to the bee keeper, but interferes with the proper pollination of the blossoms and is thus a detriment to the fruit grower. In actual practice experienced bee keepers with different sizes and makes of hives under similar conditions do not find as much difference in their honey crop as one would be led to believe from the various published accounts.
    keywords: bee keepers; bees; brood; cells; colonies; colony; comb; comb honey; fig; frames; hive; honey; keepers; queen; rearing; sections; time
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        item: #95 of 104
          id: 49077
      author: Hunting, William
       title: The Art of Horse-Shoeing: A Manual for Farriers
        date: None
       words: 35836
      flesch: 75
     summary: The claim often made for some novel inventions in horse shoes, that they may be fitted and applied in the stable by a groom or stableman is evidence of a sad misunderstanding of the art of horse-shoeing. I have nothing to say against this form of shoe and the necessary form of foot surface for it, except that it is more difficult to make than the ordinary level one.
    keywords: bearing surface; feet; fig; foot; form; frog; ground; heels; hoof; horn; horse; illustration; level shoe; nail; shoe; shoeing; sole; surface; toe; wall; wear
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        item: #96 of 104
          id: 50420
      author: Farley, Frank Webster
       title: History of the Beef Cattle Industry in Illinois
        date: None
       words: 22549
      flesch: 74
     summary: In 1850, this state stood sixth in milk cows, and seventh in work oxen and other cattle. In 1860, it was tenth in work oxen, fifth in milk cows, and second in other cattle.
    keywords: acres; animals; beef; beef cattle; business; cattle; chicago; corn; county; cows; disease; farm; feeders; feeding; head; herd; illinois; industry; land; market; ponting; state; steers; stock; time; united; years; | |
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        item: #97 of 104
          id: 5710
      author: Osmer, William
       title: A Dissertation on Horses Wherein It is Demonstrated, by Matters of Fact, as Well as from the Principles of Philosophy, That Innate Qualities Do Not Exist, and That the Excellence of This Animal is Altogether Mechanical and Not in the Blood
        date: None
       words: 8714
      flesch: 47
     summary: It has been said, that the sons of the Godolphin Arabian had better wind than other Horses, and that this perfection of the wind was in the blood. If I was asked what beauty was, I should say proportion: if I was asked what strength was, I should say proportion also: but I would not be understood to mean, that this strength and beauty alone will constitute a racer, for we shall find a proper length also will be wanted for the sake of velocity; and that moreover the very constituent parts of foreign Horses differ as much from all others, as their performances.
    keywords: arabs; blood; good; horses; length; man; power; racer; shape
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        item: #98 of 104
          id: 58229
      author: Nutt, Thomas
       title: Humanity to Honey-Bees or, Practical Directions for the Management of Honey-Bees Upon an Improved and Humane Plan, by Which the Lives of Bees May Be Preserved, and Abundance of Honey of a Superior Quality May Be Obtained
        date: None
       words: 55116
      flesch: 56
     summary: I feel warranted, however, in asserting of my COLLATERAL-BOX-HIVE, which I am now about to explain,--of my INVERTED-HIVE, and of my OBSERVATORY-HIVE, of which in their proper places minute descriptions will be given,--I feel, I say, warranted in asserting that these--my inventions--possess such conveniences and accommodations both for Bees and Bee-masters, that the pure treasure stored in them by those industrious, little insects may at any time be abstracted from them, not only without destroying the Bees, but without injuring them in the least, or even incommoding their labours by the operation;--that they afford accommodations to the Bees which greatly accelerate the progress of their labours in the summer-season;--and that the Bees never leave them in disgust, as it were, as they not unfrequently _do leave_ other hives, after being deprived of their stores; but, as if nothing had happened to them, continue day by day to accumulate fresh treasures, the quantity of which has astonished the beholders, and not only the quantity, but the quality also. Were, however, the communication to be left open for any considerable time after the Bees have departed, I have no doubt that, if not discovered by Bees belonging to other hives, it (the vacated box) would be re-entered by its own Bees, and by them be soon entirely emptied of its honey.
    keywords: apiarian; bees; board; box; boxes; cells; collateral; colony; combs; day; end; feeding; floor; glass; hive; honey; inches; management; middle; nature; pavilion; place; practice; queen; state; stock; subject; swarm; system; temperature; time; tin; tree; ventilation; wax; way; winter; work
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        item: #99 of 104
          id: 59485
      author: Phillips, Everett Franklin
       title: Wintering Bees in Cellars
        date: None
       words: 10377
      flesch: 66
     summary: 2.--Interior of bee cellar with hives In piles of four. 3.--Diagram of bee cellar.
    keywords: bee cellar; beekeeper; bees; cellar; cellar wintering; good; hive; stores; temperature; time
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        item: #100 of 104
          id: 59502
      author: Demuth, Geo. S. (George S.)
       title: The Preparation of Bees for Outdoor Wintering
        date: None
       words: 9556
      flesch: 69
     summary: A common cause of loss is through attempting to winter colonies that are too small. It is somewhat difficult to set a standard for colony strength at this season, but in general it may be stated that it is unwise to attempt to winter colonies that are not strong enough to have brood sufficient to fill three to four Langstroth frames two months before the packing is applied.
    keywords: bees; case; colonies; colony; hive; honey; packing; time; winter
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        item: #101 of 104
          id: 59546
      author: Marsden, Stanley J.
       title: Turkey Raising
        date: None
       words: 20143
      flesch: 72
     summary: Improper brooding methods cause great losses, because turkey poults are very susceptible to cold, dampness, overcrowding, overheating, unsuitable feeds, and unsuitable litter, and they succumb readily to attacks of diseases and parasites. A colony house or permanent brooder house that is suitable for brooding chicks is equally suitable for turkeys, but fewer birds should be put in the house, as turkey poults are larger than chicks.
    keywords: age; birds; breeding; clean; eggs; fed; feed; feeding; figure; grain; ground; hens; house; mash; percent; poults; range; turkeys; water; weeks; wire; | |
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        item: #102 of 104
          id: 62685
      author: Howard, George E. (George Ellsworth)
       title: Ducks and Geese: Standard Breeds and Management
        date: None
       words: 17947
      flesch: 80
     summary: 14 and 15 are shown two more designs of duck houses, which are practical and cheap, and may be built singly or in rows for a number of pens. Other ducks are judged for practical qualities by the Pekin.
    keywords: birds; black; brown; color; dark; ducks; feathers; fig; geese; gray; house; plumage; pounds; water; white; young
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        item: #103 of 104
          id: 8502
      author: Craig, Robert Alexander
       title: Common Diseases of Farm Animals
        date: None
       words: 89586
      flesch: 68
     summary: Although glanders is one of the oldest of animal diseases, it was not until 1868 that its contagious character was demonstrated. Unless there are _local symptoms of disease_ present, it may be quite difficult to locate the seat of lameness.
    keywords: acute; animal; blood; body; bone; cases; cattle; cause; cholera; chronic; cold; condition; days; disease; feed; feeding; feet; fig; foot; form; general; head; hog; hogs; horses; illustration; infection; inflammation; intestine; lameness; membrane; mouth; muscles; organs; period; portion; present; quarters; region; sheep; skin; small; stomach; symptoms; teeth; time; tissue; treatment; wall; water; worms; wound; young
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        item: #104 of 104
          id: 9478
      author: Youatt, William
       title: The Dog
        date: None
       words: 180050
      flesch: 66
     summary: This he does with peculiar fondness and singular ingenuity; for, although constantly by the side or at the heels of the horses, or under the tongue of the vehicle, his sure retreat when attacked by other dogs, who seem to have an antipathy for these pampered and fancy attendants on the affluent, he seldom or never is trod upon, or otherwise injured. As for other dogs, they feed them well, and give them good words, but never touch them nor go near them, because dogs are regarded as unclean animals.
    keywords: account; action; affection; animal; appearance; black; blood; body; breed; case; causes; character; country; course; day; days; degree; description; difficulty; discharge; disease; distemper; dog; dog dog; dogs; ear; ears; effect; eye; eyes; feet; field; fluid; following; food; footnote; form; fox; game; general; given; good; greyhound; half; hand; hare; head; horse; hounds; human; hunting; inflammation; kennel; kind; left; length; man; master; means; medicine; membrane; morning; mouth; nature; newfoundland dog; night; nose; operation; order; owner; pain; parts; period; place; pointer; portion; power; quantity; rabid; rabies; scent; sheep; size; skin; spaniel; species; state; stomach; subject; symbol; symptoms; teeth; time; tongue; treatment; water; way; wild; wolf; work; wound
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