INDEX 



749 



Cows, signs of pregnancy, 331 



approaching parturition in, 332 



" spayed," 325 



udder, inflammation of, 342 



water supply for, importance of, 294 



weed in, 342 



Crawford, Peter, a breeder of Clydes- 

 dale horses, 412 



Creamery, 691 ; plates ccx., ccxi 

 Crops, rotation, 703 

 Cross, effect of the first, 19 



Galloway with West Highland, 175 



Hamilton-Chillingham, 42 



Hereford-Galloway, 179 



Kerry, 206 



Red Polled, 161 



Vaynol-Chillingham, 42, 43 

 Crossing cattle, effects of, 14 



Wild cattle with pure-bred Short- 

 horns, 38 

 " Crown Prince," greatest Warlaby 



bull, 67 



Cruickshanks of Sittyton, the brothers, 75 

 Culley, George, 124 



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Dairy cattle, points in judging, 1 88 



cows, treatment of, 316-348 

 Dairying, 98, 291, 309, 691 



dairy diploma questions, 712 



districts suitable for, 291 



expert, Victorian Government, on 

 butter export trade, 305 



extent of land requisite for, 296 



tests at St Louis, 227, 729 



winter, 304 



" Dale-o'-Goyt " breed of sheep, 552 

 Dalkeith herd of Wild cattle, 50 

 " Damsel " (Clydesdale mare), 408 

 " Darley's Arabian," 452 

 Darnel, 665 



" Darnley " (Clydesdale horse), 410 

 Dartmoor sheep, 569 

 Darwin on breeding of animals, 3, 6, 

 II, 18 



theory of Pangenesis, 7 

 Davy, William, 128 

 Dawkins, Professor Boyd, on aboriginal 



cattle, 32 

 Death of the Bull, Landseer's famous 



picture of the, 35 

 Dead-weight of cattle estimated by 



measurement, 289 

 Death-scope, 676 

 Dentition, see Teeth 

 Derbyshire Gritstone sheep, 552 

 De-sexed cows, 325 

 Devon cattle, 123 



Long-wool sheep, 586 



North, breed of cattle, 123 



Devon, South, breed of cattle, 131 

 Dew-rot in sheep, 680 

 Dewsland breed of cattle, 141 

 Dexter cattle, 204 



Shorthorns, 93 

 Diarrhoea in calves, 236 



pigs, 383 



sheep, 663 

 Dipper (J. & R. Wallace's), 657, 658 ; 



plate ccvii 

 Dipping of sheep, 642 



a safeguard against "loupin' ill," 673 

 Dips, materials, 649 



to avoid, 654 

 Diseases, of cattle, 248-251 



of horses, 509-518 ; ^ fig. 



of pigs, 383-387 



of sheep, 623-681 flasstm 

 Dishorning of cattle, legality of, in 

 Scotland and Ireland, 271 



duration of pain of operation, 269 



popularity of, in America 271 

 Dishley herd of Longhorns, 106 



Leicesters, 573 



Docking horses, the practice of, 492 

 " Doctor" (Channel Islands cow), 230 

 "Doddies," or Polled Angus cattle, 164 

 Dog, see Collie 



Old English Sheep, 686 



Sheep, trials of, 687 

 Dolforgan estate, experiments of fat 



lamb breeding at, 565 

 Domestication, effects of, 21 

 Dorset and Somerset horn sheep, 593 



peculiarity of the breed, 596 



Down sheep, 609 

 Double-scope, 676 

 Dougal, J. W., 290 

 Douglas, L. M., on Dairy Plant, 689- 



701 

 Drench, administration of, to a pig, 383 



for a horse, 510 



for a sheep, 666 

 Drenching-tin, 667 

 Drew, Lawrence, of Merry ton, 191, 408, 



410, 417 



Duchess tribe of Shorthorns, the, 58, 69 

 Dumb-martin, a, 22 

 "Dunsley's Dart," 452 

 " Durham Ox," the, 60 

 Durham Polled cattle, 99 

 Dutch cattle, 206-209 



Belted Cattle Association (America), 



209 



Duthie, William, of Collynie, a noted 

 breeder of Shorthorns, 87 



Edinburgh, Guernsey cows' milk in, 

 229 



