INDEX Continued 



355 



Poultry, killing for market, 317 



warmth for, 319, 320 

 Prenatal influences, 22 

 Preservatives in milk, 192 

 Previous sire, influence of, 22 

 Prickly pear for steers, 125 

 Proprietary feeds for beef, 119 



chickens, 300 

 Protein, 25 

 Pullets vs. hens, 313 

 Pumpkins for cows, 160 

 horses, 51 

 Pure bred bulls, 137 



Raising mules, 82 

 Rambouillet sheep, 243 

 Range cattle, 88, 98 

 lambs, 262 

 sheep, 239, 263 

 wars, 241 



Rape for hogs, 213 

 Rations, as affecting milk, 172, 177 

 balancing, 26 

 effect on firmness of pork, 



221 

 effect on strength of bones 



in hogs, 223 

 for chickens, 309 

 colts, 60 

 cows, 155, 171 

 horses, 55, 60 

 mares, 62 

 mules, 80 

 sheep, 260, 

 stallions, 62 

 Rations, narrow vs. wide and heavy 



vs. light for chickens, 303 

 of gram for sheep, 249 



beef, 117 



Razorback hogs vs. pure breeds, 227 

 Red polled cattle, 95 

 Rice for horses, 35 



products for beef, 115 

 calves, 104 

 chickens, 299 

 hogs, 203 



Ring bone in horses, 72 

 worm in horses, 70 

 Roadster, 7 

 Roasters, 318 



Roasting pigs for Chinese, 226 

 Roots for chickens, 302, 308 

 hogs, 215 



Roots for horses, 50 

 sheep, 256 

 steers, 127 

 Rouen ducks, 336 

 Roughage for beef, 119 

 Roup in chickens, 333 

 Runt pigs, 229 

 Rye for beef, 116 

 hogs, 205 

 horses, 33 

 pasture for steers, 125 



Saddle horse, 8, 17 



Salt for preserving eggs, 325 



steers, 135 



Sand for chickens, 302 

 Sawdust as bedding for cows, 174 

 Scarlet fever in milk, 187 

 Screenings for sheep, 247 

 Scrub sheep vs. grades and pure 



breeds, 274 



Shavings as bedding for cows, 174 

 Shearing goats, 289 

 sheep, 278 

 Sheds for cows, 183 

 steers, 134 

 Sheep, 238 



as weed exterminators, 258 



breeds of, 242 



diseases of, 279 



exercise for, 275 



for wool, 240 



grains for, 246 



hay for, 251 



in the South, 265 



on the range, 239 



pasture for, 248 



rations for, 260 



scab, 279 



shearing, 278 



shrinkage in shipment, 275 



stomach worms, in 265 



water for, 262 

 Shelter for cows, 183 

 steers, 134 

 Shetland pony, 20 

 Shire horse, 14 

 Shorthorn cattle, 90 

 Shropshire sheep, 244 

 Silage, effect on milk, 169 



for beef, 122 

 cows, 167 

 hogs, 211 

 horses, 49 



