Excerpt from Willard's Practical Dairy Husbandry: A Complete Treatise on Dairy Farms and Farming; Dairy Stock and Stock Feeding; Milk, Its Management and Manufacture Into Butter and Cheese; History and Mode of Organization of Butter and Cheese Factories; Dairy Utensils, Etc;, Etc With more than twenty years' experience in Dairy Farming, and an acquaintance from extensive personal observation with the best methods of dairy management in this Country and Europe - accustomed to the practical handling of Milk and the manufacture of its products - in fine, having made a specialty of this branch of industry, the writer ought to be able to discriminate between the practical and merely theoretical in dairy management. Dairy Farming in this country is no holiday affair. The men who engage in it are. For the most part, seeking useful information - such knowledge as may be turned to a good account in their business. In other words. They seek to learn how Dairying in its several branches can best be made to pay. With this standpoint in view, no theories have been recommended which cannot stand the practical test of usefulness. I am not insensible to the favor with which the results of my experiments and observations have been received, or to the confidence reposed in me by American Dairymen. I can only say that I have been earnest for improvement in this branch of industry, and have labored heartily for the advancement of the whole Dairy Interest throughout the whole dairy districts of our country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.