328 Index. 



Fattening for killing, 239 

 Feeder for rearing kids -by 



hand, 175, 176 

 Feeding, 138-156. See Stall- 

 feeding, 

 at shows, 274 

 for killing as food, 239 

 kids, 173 



when milking, 190 

 Fever. Malta, 295-300 

 Field quoted, 70, 91, 242, 250 

 Flaying, 244 

 Fleas, 155 



Fleece, products of, 241 

 Flesh of the goat, 231-240 : 

 Angora, 234 

 castration, effects of, 233, 



239 



colour, 233 

 cooking, 234-239 

 curing, 235 

 dressing kid to imitate 



fawn, 238 

 experiments on Angora, 



234 



fat, 233 

 flavour, 236 

 imitations of other meats, 



237. 2 38 

 kid meat, 235 

 menu of dinner, 236 

 prejudice existing, 231 

 resemblance to venison, 



2 33 



sold as lamb, 231 



spaying, effect of, 239 

 Flooring of house, 109 



sparred, 116, 117 

 Foods, 138-150 



acorns, 145 



artichokes, 143 



bark of trees, 128, 154 



barley, 148 



beans, 147 



cake, 148 



carbohydrates, 138 



carrots, 143 



chaff, 146 



chemistry, 138 



cost, 153 



Foods (cont.} : 



cotton-cake, 148 

 dry, 146 



elements, important, 138 

 . experiments with goats 

 and other animals, 

 141, 142 



garden produce, 144 

 grains, brewers', &c., 148 

 green, 142 

 hay, 146 

 Indian corn, 147 

 Lancaster calf meal, 176 

 leaves, 144 

 linseed-cake, 148 

 maize, 147 

 mangolds, 143, 168 

 milk, 176 



nitrogenous, 138, 141 

 oats, 147 

 oil-cake, 148 

 peas, 147 

 plants, 144, 145 

 plants to be avoided, 146 

 potatoes, 143 

 prices, 153 



quality and quantity, 141 

 roots, 143 

 sloppy, 148 



storing, for winter, 154 

 swedes, 143 

 trees, &c., 144 

 trees to be avoided, 146 

 turnips, 143 

 weeds, 145 

 wheat, 148 

 Foot-rot, 212 

 Foster-mother, goat as a, 



248-251 



for children, 251 

 for other kinds of ani- 

 mals, 250 

 France, goats of, 33 



G. 



Garden produce as food, 144 

 Gardens, &c., protecting, 

 from goats, 137 



