Ancient Latin Writers on Agriculture, Vol. II: Columella

BOOK VIII.

I. On the donkey.
II. On buying and keeping sheep.
III. On selecting rams.
IV. On covered sheep those kept under shelter.
V. Medicines for the sheep flock.
VI. On the goat herd.
VII. On the medicine for goats.
VIII. The method of making cheese.
IX. On pigs and their medicines.
X. On the medicine for pigs.
XI. On the castration of pigs.
XII. On dogs.
XIII. On the habits and medicines of dogs.

BOOK IX.

I. On farmyard feeding villatica pastio raising animals near the farmhouse.
II. On the types of hens, and preparing and feeding barnyard cocks.
III. On establishing hen-houses.
IV. On the food of hens.
V. On preserving and setting eggs.
VI. On eggs.
VII. On stuffing hens fattening them for market.
VIII. On stuffing pigeons and doves, and establishing dovecotes.
IX. On feeding turtledoves.
X. On raising thrushes.
XI. On raising peacocks.
XII. On the raising of Numidian and rustic hens.
XIII. On birds which the Greeks call amphibious double-lived and the Latins call those of double life.
XIV. On raising geese, and establishing a goose-pen.
XV. On ducks, teals, and similar birds.