A History of British Livestock Husbandry, 1700-1900 [Paperback]

HISTORY OF BRITISH LIVESTOCK: R TROW-SMITH:

CONTENTS

PREFACE ix

1. PASTORAL BRITAIN IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 1

Sources; Scottish cattle economy; Welsh livestock; the south-west; Home Counties fattening industry; dairy farming; intensive veal production; evolving breeds of cattle; management of the dairy cow; the beef beast; ailments of cattle; sheep husbandry; early eighteenth century swine; the farm horse

2, THE WORK OF ROBERT BAKEWELL 45

The longhorn improvement; breeding the ideal animal; Bakewells contemporaries; the New Leicester sheep; crossing the New Leicester

3. THE LATE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 1: FODDER CROPS AND CATTLE 70

The turnip husbandry; carrots and potatoes; clover stands; cabbages for fodder; advent of the oilcake; demand for better cattle; a national breed of Longhorns; prototypes of the Shorthorn; the Devon breed; other south-western types; the red cattle of Hereford, Sussex and Norfolk; the English polls; Welsh cattle; the Scottish breeds; Alderney imports; transhumance

4. THE LATE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 2: SHEEP, PIGS AND HORSES 121

The south-western breeds; the new Southdown; the Norfolk and the new Suffolk; the Ryeland and its cousins; the sheep of Wales; the Cheviot advance; the Linton race; the family of longwools; pockets of archaic stock in Scotland; Merino experiments; the eighteenth century pig; Shire, Clydesdale and Suffolk horses

5. THE LATE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 3: THE TECHNIQUES OF CATTLE HUSBANDRY 163

Rearing the calf; finishing the beef; Irish, Welsh and Scottish supplies; plow oxen; management of the dairy herd; the urban cowkeeper; milk yields; ailments and their treatment; stock housing; profits and losses

6. THE LATE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 4: MANAGEMENT OF THE SHEEP AND PIG 196 Tuppingl³6