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INDEX 



Cattle, Somerford Park white, 32, 150 

 Sussex breed of, 132-134 

 symptoms of illness, 247 

 Teeswater, 57 



Welsh, 48, 49, 115, 140-147 

 West Highland breed of, 135-140 



crosses, 140 



White-belted or sheeted, 144 

 Wild White, 26-52 

 Woodbastwick herd of, 152 

 young, liable to ringworm, 240 

 Celtic horse, 390, 392 ; plate cxxv 

 Celts, cattle of the, 34, 1 34 

 Cestode worms, 662 

 " Champion of England," famous 



Shorthorn bull, 77 

 Chapadmalal stud, 409 

 Chariot warfare, 450 

 Chartley Wild cattle, 26, 32, 37, 44-48 

 " Chaser," a, 620 

 Cheese-making, 695 

 Cheviot cross with Welsh mountain 



sheep, 561 

 sheep, 526-532 

 Cheviot Sheep Society, 527 

 Chickweed hurtful to sheep, 68 

 Chillingham Wild cattle, 26, 34, 35, 37, 



42 

 Choking in cattle, 345 



in sheep. 663 

 Cholera of pigs, 385 

 Christison's Herefords at Lammermoor, 



Queensland, 117, 119 

 Clays, the (trotters), 458 

 Clean or cleansing, the, in calving, 



332^ 

 Clement's, Andrew, visit to Australia 



and New Zealand, 304 

 Clun Forest breed of sheep, 566 

 Clydesdale horse, the, compared with the 



Shire, 409 



foreign demand for, 409, 413 

 importation of English blood, 406 

 points of a, 413 

 prices and pedigrees of, 441 

 scapula and humerus of, 414 

 the history of, 404 

 white feet in, 415 

 Coaching-horse, the, 448 

 the origin of, 449 



the connection of, with the Thorough- 

 bred, 452 



the performances of the breed, 452 

 the Yorkshire, 451 

 Coatei Shorthorn Herd Book, 60, 84 

 Cochrane's, H. M., " Quebec," famous 



Duchess cow, 69 

 Colchicum autumnale, 260 

 Cold, effect of, in milk production, 292 



effect of, on the pig, 376 

 Colic in horses, 509-511 

 Collie dog, the, 681-685 



Collie points, scale of, 685 

 rough type of, 684 

 smooth type of, 685 

 the Natural Bobtail, rough, 685 



smooth, 685 

 Colling, Charles and Robert, system of 



breeding, 60 



"Collyhill" (Ayrshire cow), 191 

 Colostrum or "beastings," 231 

 Colour of cattle, effects of imagination 



on, 12 



importance of, 59 

 Colt, throwing of a, 491 

 Commission, Royal, on horse-breeding, 



437 

 Concentrated food, for cattle, 273 



for sheep, 635 

 Conception of mares, 483 

 Concrete as flooring for cattle-houses, 



232 

 Congreve, Colonel, purchase of Chartley 



cattle by, 48 

 Connemara pony, 463 

 Consanguinity, 71, 157 

 " Cornstalk disease," 252 

 Corridale sheep, 584 

 " Corrimony " wire fence, 637 

 Cotswold sheep, 587, 588 



antiquity of the breed, 588 



supposed origin of name of hills, 586 

 Cow, Ayrshire, points of a, 193 



breeches, 338 



how to put dry, 325 



pasture, 294 



points by which to judge, 188, 325 

 Cows, abortion in, means of preventing, 



333 



choking in, 345 

 de-sexed or "spayed," 325 

 food, 306-312, 326-329 

 grooming of, 275 

 habit of standing in water, objections 



to, 294 



house-feeding of, 306-312 

 hoven in, 328 



inflammation of udder in, 342 

 inversion of uterus in, 337 

 lactation, period of, 323 

 lameness in, 346 

 " loupin'ill " in, 342 

 milk-fever in, 339 

 milking of, 319 

 pasture, 294 



water supply in, 294 



weeds in a, 295 

 plan by which 100 cows can be fed 



on 300 acres, 302 

 premature labour in, 334 

 protracted labour in, 333 

 protrusion of vagina, 339 

 putting dry of, 325 

 rumen, impaction of the, 344, 345 



