Ixxxii AGRICULTURE OF IMASSACHUSETTS. 



SUEEP 



SHEEP 



Sheep; grand show of, at the exhibi- 

 tion of the Royal Agricultural So- 

 ciety, 1862 (Pt. 1), 201. 



at the International exhibition 



at Hamburg, ISGS (rt. 1), 128. 



— how to secure twin lambs of, 1860 

 (Pt. 1), 124. 



— injury done to, by dogs, 1860 (Pt. 1), 

 94; 18(54 (Pt. 1), 1G7; (Pt. 2), 124; 

 1865 (Pt. 1), 126; 1874 (Pt. 2), 121. 



— keeping, as a means of renovating 

 old pasture;^, 1860 (Pt. 2), 214; 1864 

 (Pt. 1), 99 (Pt. 2), 125; 1865 (Pt. 1), 

 123; 1866 (Pt. 1), 315; 1867 (Pt. 1),53; 

 1877 (Pt. 1), 142, 143. 



profitable, 1854 (Pt. 2), 360, 365; 



1855 (Pt. 2), 326; 1856 (Pt. 2), 281, 

 283; 1857 (Pt. 2), 273; 1858 (Pt. 2), 

 286; 1859 (Pt. 1), 86; (Pt. 2), 259; 

 1860 (Pt. 1), 97, 121, 313, 324; 1862 

 (Pt. 2), 223, 224; 1864 (Pt. 1), 161 

 (Pt. 2), 122; 1865 (Pt. 1), 128, 129, 

 166; 1867 (Pt. 2), 171; 1870 (Pt. 2), 

 201, 206; 1864 (Pt. 2), 111, 118, 119. 



— methods of management of, 1865 

 (Pt. 1), 123, 126, 128; 1867 (Pt. 1), 52; 

 1868 (Pt. 2), 64, 65, 197, 201; 1869 

 (Pt. 2), 183, 184; 1870 (Pt. 2), 201, 206; 

 1874 (Pt. 2), 109, 111, 113, 120, 122; 

 1877 (Pt. 2), 98, 99. 



breeding, at Hohenheim, de- 

 scribed, 1863 (Pt. 1), 191. 



— period of gestation of, 1860 (Pt. 1), 

 123. 



— poisoned by eating the foliage of 

 low laurel (Kalmia angustiJ'oUa), 

 1860 (Pt. 1), 132. 



— results of crossing different breeds 

 of, 1860 (Pt. 1), 109, 115; 1862 (Pt. 2), 

 227; 1868 (Pt. 2), 209. 



— scours, or diarrhoea, among, treat- 

 ment of, 1860 (Pt. 1), 133. 



— should be housed in cold and 

 stormy weather, 1861 (Pt. 1), 94; 

 1864 (Pt. 1), 162, 163; 1865 (Pt. 1), 121. 



— stretches in, treatment of, 1860 

 (Pt. 1), 133. 



— summer treatment of, 1860 (Pt. 1), 

 120; 1862 (Pt. 2), 229. 



— ticks on, remedies for, 1860 (Pt. 1), 

 134. 



— varieties of, adapted to particular 

 purposes, 1865 (Pt. 1), 120; 1871 

 (Pt. 2), 283. 



— winter treatment of, 1860 (Pt. 1), 

 125; 1862 (Pt. 2), 229. 



Sheep, characteristics of the Black- 

 faced heath, 1860 (Pt. 1), 111. 



of the Cheviot, 18(52 (Pt. 2), 216. 



of the Hampshire Downs, 1860 



(Pt. 1), 112. 



of the New Oxfordshire, or Im- 

 proved Cotswold, 1860 (Pt. 1), 110 

 (Pt. 2), 209. 



of the Oxford Downs, 18(50 (Pt. 1), 



113; 1864 (Pt. 2), 120. 



of the Oxfordshire Downs, 1854 



(Pt. 2), 362; 1857 (Pt.l), 117. 



of the Shropshire Downs, I860 



(Pt. 1), 112. 



and value of the Cotswold, 1857 



(Pt. 1), 115; 1860 (Pt. 1), 109; 1862 

 (Pt. 2), 215, 229: 1864 (Pt. 2), 120; 1868 

 (Pt. 2), 199. 



of the Merino, 1857 (Pt. 1), 122; 



1860 (Pt. 1), 99, 101; 1862 (Pt. 2), 216- 

 218; 1863 (Pt. 1), 60, 128 (Pt. 2), 60; 



1864 (Pt. 1), 161, 162 (Pt. 2), 120; 



1865 (Pt. 1), 122 ; 1868 (Pt. 2), 199. See 

 Merino. 



of the Saxony, 1857 (Pt. 1), 123; 



1860 (Pt. 1), 101, 103. 



of the South Down, 1857 (Pt. 1), 



116; 1860 (Pt. 1), 106; 1862 (Pt. 2), 

 215; 1864 (Pt. 2), 119; 18(55 (Pt. 1), 122. 



and origin of the Leicester, 1857 



(Pt. 1), 114; 18(50 (Pt. 1), 103; 1863 

 (Pt. 2), 40, 60; 18(54 (Ft. 2), 119, 120. 



— domestic, origin of the, 1857 (Pt. 1), 

 112. 



— Bakewell, or Dishley, 1860 (Pt. 1), 

 103. 



— and lambs, laws for the protection 

 of, 1859 (Pt. 2), 318; 1860 (Pt. 1), 94, 

 121; 1861 (Pt. 1), 64; 1862 (Pt. 1), 109. 



— husbandry, importance of our, 

 1853 (Pt. 1), 86; 1854 (Pt. 2), 360, 444; 

 1855 (Pt. 2), 326; 1857 (Pt. 1), 113; 

 1859 (Pt. 2), 86, 259; 1860 (Pt. 1), 91, 

 93, 121, 313 (Pt. 2), 204; 1861 (Pt. 2), 

 195; 1862 (Pt. 2), 213, 223, 224; 1863 

 (Pt. 1), 59; 1864 (Pt. 1), 1(51; (Pt. 2), 

 117; 1865 (Pt. 1), 118; 1873 (Pt. 1), 

 55, 56. 



— - statistics of, 1860 (Pt. 1), 93, 292; 



1861 (Pt. 1), 64 (Pt. 2), 198; 1862 

 (Pt. 2), 213; 1874 (Pt. 2), 109. 



in Dukes County, 1865 (Pt. 1), 



268. 

 in Nantucket County, 1865 (Pt. 1) 



257. 



— - in Silesia, 1863 (Pt. 1), 130. 



