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INDEX 



" Avondale, Prince of" (noted horse, not 



in stud book), 408 



Ayrshire bullocks, excellence of, 199 

 Cattle and Herd Book Society, 191 

 cattle breed, 186, 200 

 cattle in Canada and United States, 



199 

 cow, essentially a cheese-dairy cow, 



195, 196 

 points of, 193 

 " Axtell " (American Trotter), 458 



B 



Babraham, Cambridge, herd, 85 



Bacillus anthracis, 248 

 tuberculosis, 312 



Bacon, curing of, 353 

 model sides of, 354 

 rolled, 358 



Baird, A. M., milk records of dairy 

 farm, 197 



Bakewell, Robert, 104 



Bakewell's method of feeding, 572 



Ballindalloch-Angus herd, 167 



Bandages, 401 



Barb horses, 431 



Barber's " Proctor," 423 



Barclay of Ury, Captain, famous breeder 

 of Shorthorns, 75 



" Barley Harvest" (horse), 452 



"Baron's Pride" (Clydesdale horse), 

 407 



" Bar-None " (noted Shire horse), 409 



Barrenness in cattle, 22, 36, 331 



Barter's, Richard, records of milk yield, 

 306 



Barton, Major, originator of Dexter- 

 Shorthorns, 93 



Bates, Thomas, 68 



Bates' branch of Shorthorns, 65 

 colours of, 72 



Bathmic theory, the, 7 



Bathurst's, Earl, Hereford oxen, 121 



Baxter, Richard, on dairying, 306 



" Beastings" or colostrum, 231 



Beef-producing cattle, points of, 53 



Belladonna poisoning, 259 



Berkshire breed of pigs, 368 



Biffen, R. H., on Mendel's Law, 24 



Biggar's method of feeding, 181 



Bistoury for dilating teats, ^>2ofig. 



Blackburn, Mrs, cross-bred cow, 19 



fig; 149 

 Professor, on Reversion, 19 



Blackface sheep, 532-540 

 housing and feeding of, 539 

 Shepherds' calendar of, 544 



Blackfaced Heath breed, Lowes', 533 



Black flies, 644 



Black quarter, 671 



Black-water, Prof. Wm. Williams on, 



249 



Blain, 318 

 Blake, Andrew, a breeder of Suffolk 



Punches, 474 



Blakely, John, experiments of, 551 

 41 Blaze " (black horse), 406 

 Blickling Hall herd, 152 

 Blindness in sheep, 677 

 Blood-poisoning in calves, 237 



in cows, 339 



in sheep, 625 

 Blotches in sheep, 679 

 " Bluecap," a half-bred Leicester, 580 

 Blue-greys, 398 

 Blunt, Wilfred, on Eastern horses, 431, 



434 



Boars, treatment of, 374 

 Booth, Thomas, 65 



John, 67 



Richard, 67 



Booth and Bates blood, commingling of, 

 82 



cattle compared, 72 



Booth branch of Shorthorns, 61, 65, 66 

 Border Leicester, 576 



Shepherds' calendar of, 577 

 Bos indicus, 3 7 



longifrons, 28, 75 



primigenius, 27 



scoticus, 30 



taurus, 27 



urus, 26, 29 

 Bot fly, 261 



Gastrophilus equi, 5 1 8 

 Boxes for feeding cattle, 268 

 Braxy in sheep, 671 

 Breaking of horses, 494, 495 fig.; plate 



cxxxviii 

 Breeches for cow, 338 



for ewe, 624 



Breeders' Societies, dates of establish- 

 ment, 715 

 Breeding, Bakewell's method of, 57 



Ceilings' system of, 60 



Darwin on principles of, 5 



for first time, 329 



imagination in, 12 



in-and-in, 14, 31, 36, 46, 60, 63 



line-, 1 6 



Lord Panmure's attempt, and its 



result, 165 

 Breeds, new, 18 

 British Association Committee on Wild 



White cattle, 52 



British cattle, classified as Bos taurus, 

 56 



Dairy Farmers' Show, trials and 

 tests at, 298, 299 



Goat Society, 718 



method of cutting up a carcase of 

 beef, 283 /fr. 



