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GENERAL INDEX TO EOYAL AGKICULTUEAL JOURNAL. 



iSheep of Bedfordshire, principally Leiccs- 

 ters, cross-breds, and Oxford Downs 

 (Bennett), xviii. 21. 



, smallpox, see " Smallpox." 



■ of Siiropsliire (PL Tanner) : the 



Shropshii'e Downs, a cross of Long- 

 mynd sheep with pure Soiitlidowns, 

 xix, 42; names of successful flock- 

 masters, 58 ; weight of fleece, 5\). 



(W. C. Spooner), xx. 308. 



, see " Leicester sheep." 



, see " Long-wooUed sheep." 



, girths of prize sheep at Chester 



(R. Smith), xix. oS5. 



, on pasture, their keep equal to 



16 lbs. of liay per week (Lawcs and 

 Gilbert), xix. .508. 



, Professor Baudemcnt's report on tlio 



use of mangolds and pulp for sheep- 

 feeding, XX. 88. 



, breeding of (W. C. Spooner), xx. 



298; liistory of sheep in England, 2'J!); 

 old Wiltshire sheep, with white face, 

 Roman nose, and long horn, iUu,stra- 

 iion, 299; their extinction caused by 

 enclosures, 300 ; in Hamp.shire the old 

 1)reed crossed but not ol)Hterated, ih. ; 

 the heavy head reduced only recently, 

 301 ; in Lawes's sheep experiments 

 Southdowns throve more than Hamp- 

 .shires, ib. ; a strain of Berkshirc-uoll 

 and of Cotswold blood introduced, 302 ; 

 ]Mr. Twynam's rams, ih. ; and paper at a 

 tanners' club on crossing the Hampshire 

 Down ewe with a Ootswold ram, 303 ; 

 the Sussex blood in Wilts since crossed 

 with Hants i-ams, 304 ; BIi-. Lawrence's 

 practice, ih. ; Mr. Humfrey's account of 

 his flock — piokeil Hunts ewes with 

 Jonas Webb's blood in tlie rams, 305 ; 

 Downs in Dorsetshire, 30G ; Dorset 

 horned sheep, ib. ; fat themselves and 

 their early lambs at once, 307 ; trial 

 and disuse of ]Merino.«, ih. ; Shropshire 

 sheep confusedly cros.s-bred, 308 ; both 

 Southdown and Leicester blood having 

 been used, ih.; new Oxfords, a cross 

 of Cotswold and Hants, 309 ; the cross 

 lias found a congenial soil, ih.; mountain 

 sheep, ih. ; Norfolk crosses, 310 ; conclu- 

 sions, ih. ; nearly all breeds except the 

 Sussex Down have been cross-bred, 312. 



SHEEP-DrxG, 3 years old, analysis of (Dr. 

 Voelcker), xviii. 114; compai-ed witli 

 farmyard-manure, 116 ; and fresh sheep- 

 dung, 118. 



Sheep - FEEDixo, experiments on, with 

 mangolds and with pulp ('Dr. A. 

 Voelcker), xxi. 103. 



- — management on a clay fann (Thomp- 

 son, M,P.), XXV. 40. 



SHEEP-PEEDING. 



Sheep-feeding, experiments on (J. I>. 

 Lawes and Dr. Gilbert) ; first report, 

 X. 270; second report, xii. 414; tliird 

 report, xiii. 178 ; fourth repoii, xvi. 

 45 ; fifth report, xxii. 189. 



, fifth report of experiments on (J. B. 



Lawes and Dr. Gilbert), from the mode- 

 rately fat to the very fat condition, 

 xxii. 189 ; wasting eftects of heat and 

 drought, 190 ; Hants and Sussex Downs, 

 ib.; CotswolcLs, 191; superior increase 

 of Leicesters and cross-breds, ib. ; 

 excessive rainfall, 192 ; tables of food 

 and increase, 193; of live and dead 

 weights, 194; consiuuption of oilcake 

 and chafl', 195 ; of food in relation to 

 weiglit of sheep and pigs, 196; pro- 

 ductiveness of fofid at diUerent stages, 

 197; eai-ly and rajjid fattening, 198; 

 cost of prejiavation for Christmas mar- 

 kets, 199; the respiratory process, ib.; 

 proportionate weight of lungs to entiro 

 body, 200 ; a limit to fattennig in oxen 

 and sheep, but not in pigs, 200. 



, supplementury report on (J. B. 



Lawes and Dr. Ginx.rt), xxiii. 191 ; 

 cellulose, ib. ; relation of increase to 

 food, 192 ; kinds of food and sheep 

 experimented with, ib. ; tables of re- 

 sults; preliminary and experimental 

 ])eriod, 194-G; experimental period f)idy, 

 197-202; summary, 203; rates of in- 

 crease, 205; chafi" and succulent food, 

 206 ; respiration and functional waste, 

 ib. ; relative eflects of nitrogenous and 

 non-nitrogenous food, ib.; comparison 

 of barley with beans and linseed-oil, 

 207 ; ready-made fat more assimilabk; 

 than starcli aiid allied substances, i7). ; 

 elimination of urea and demand for 

 water, 208; proportional consumptioir 

 of food at diflerent stages, t7>. ; eftects of 

 temperature, 209 ; recapitulation, ib. 



, report of two experiments in, by the 



Parliugton Tenants" Club (Blr. Fox), 

 xxiii. 357 ; motles of feeding and objects 

 aimed at, ib. ; kinds of slicep and tables 

 of increase, 358-9 ; remarks on the ex- 

 periments (P. H. Frere), 300; propor- 

 tions of meat to live weight, ib. 



, mode of fattening lambs for the 



London market, as practised in Hert- 

 fordshire (Evershed), xxv. 270. 



feeding on clay lands, P. D. (A. 



Hughes), see "Clay soils," xxv. 521. 



• rot, its nature, cause, treatment, 



and prevention (Professor Simonds), 

 xxiii. 64 ; early allusions to the attee- 

 tion, 65; its ravages in 1809,76.; aird 

 frequency in Eg\-pt, 66 ; periodic out- 

 breaks in Englanil, ib.; names of the 



