INDEX 



ABERDEEN-ANGUS breed of cattle, 163- 



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bull, points of, 167 

 Aberdeen Red Poll, 172 

 Aberdeenshire Shorthorns, 75 

 Aboriginal cattle and sheep, characters 



of, 26, 27 

 Abortion in cows, 333, 335 



means of prevention of, 335 

 Acorn poisoning, 259 

 Adynamia (weed), 542 

 After-birth, the, in calving, 332-335 

 After-pains, effect of, in cows, 337 ; in 



sheep, 625 



" Agar's Dart " (horse), 452 

 Ages of horses, how determined, 496 

 Agricultural labourers, inefficient educa- 

 tion of, 2 



"Albion," a noted Hereford bull, 119 

 "Albion, Prince of" (a Clydesdale 



horse), 411 

 Albinos, 34 

 Alder ney cattle, 230 

 Aldersey School boys, work of, 262 

 Alfa-Laval cream separator, 698 

 " Allerton " (famous American trotter), 



458 

 "Alloy" strain, the, of Shorthorn breed, 



58 



Amble, the, 735 

 America, demand for Jersey cattle in. 



215 



employment of asses and mules in, 479 

 national horse of, 453-460 

 wild horse of, 390 

 American method of cutting a carcase 



of beef, 282 

 Polled Durham Breeders' Association, 



101 



Shorthorn Herd Book, 99 

 Trotting Register, 454 

 Amnion, the, in calving, 332 

 Anazah breed of Arab horses, points of, 

 435 

 745 



" Ancient Briton," a noted Hereford 



bull, 119 



Angleberries, 242 

 Anglesey black cattle, 141-143 



milking qualities of, 143 

 Anguses, red polled, 161, 162 

 as compared with the Galloway, 168 

 Ralston's experiments at Glamis, 12 

 see Aberdeen- Angus 

 Animals, constitutional weakness of, 



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knowledge of habits of, important, I 

 Anthrax, 248, 383 

 Aphthous fever, 384 

 Apoplexy, parturient, in cows, 339 

 Appendices : see Contents, xvii 

 Arab breed of horses, 433-436 

 Argentine horses, 190, 391, 409 



cattle in, 162, 169, 199 

 Armada, Spanish, horses from, 472 



sheep from, 555 

 Army remounts, 445 

 Arsenic, as a dip, 550 



poisoning, 258 



Arthritis, specific, in foals, 488 

 Ascaris megalocephalus, 5!^ 

 Asia Minor, contagious lung disease of 



goats in, 670 

 A sinus, 184, 389 

 Ass, the Andalusian, 478 

 Catalonian, 478 

 domesticated, 477 

 Italian, 478 

 Maltese, 478 

 Poitou, 478 



popularity of, in some countries, 477 

 size of, influenced by treatment and 



climate, 478 

 wild, 477 



Atavism, 19, 20, 23, 57, 165 

 Atholl herd of Highland cattle, 138 

 herd of Wild cattle, 49 

 stud, the, 474 

 Australasian dairy cattle, 199 



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