750 



INDEX 



Edinburgh sales, prices of animals at, 



288 



University, paintings in the Agricul- 

 ture Department of, 145 

 Edinburgh and East of Scotland College 

 of Agriculture, experiments in 

 sheep-feeding by, 638 

 Education, importance of, 2 



necessity for manual and mental, 3 

 "Eild" or "yeld," 192, 621 

 Ear-marking, 607, 608 fig. 

 Eocenes in North America, remains of 



horse in, 389 

 Eyuus caballus, 392 

 distinguished from asinus^ 389, 476 

 przcwalskii, 393 



Ergotised grass, effects of eating, 254 

 Erysipelas of udder, 344 

 " Escutcheon " or " milk - mirror " 



theory, 324 

 Essex pig, the, 372 

 Evens, John, Burton, 95 

 " Everard, Sir " (Clydesdale horse), 



412 

 Ewart, Professor, experiments of, II, 



1 66, 481 



Ewes, breeches for, 624 

 cast, 530 



"eild"or "yeld," 622 

 feeding of, 530, 627 

 " grit, poisoning of, 624 

 Exmoor sheep, 567 



Breeders' Association, 568 



F 



Falkirk "Trysts," 137 



Family resemblances, causes of, 4 



Farm horses, 404-429, 501-518 



cost of feeding of, 501 



food, 502-506 



grooming of, 508 



litter, 509 



mare, a, 483 



Farms, examples of stocking of, 701 

 Faro'e Islands sheep, 524, 740 

 Farrowing, preparations of sow for, 



376 



" Fasted live-weight," 285 

 " Favourite " (Shorthorn bull), 64 

 Feeding of cattle, regularity in, 272 



of cows, cost of, per week, 307 



of ewes, 530, 637 



of farm horses, 498 

 in summer season, 506 



of lambs, 542, 625 



of one hundred cows, plan for, 302 



of pigs, 379 



of sheep, 540, 637, 638 



of show animals, 181 

 Fern, eaten by Herdwick sheep, 557 



Fieldra breed of cattle, 155, 728 

 Fife horned cattle, 165 

 Flanders cattle, 124 

 Fluke, 665 



Fly affecting sheep, 645 

 " Flyers, Trinity of," 458 

 Foal, the, 483, 489 

 "Foljambe" (Shorthorn bull), 57 

 Foods, for cows, 306-312, 326-329 



for horses, 502-506 



concentrated, for cattle, 273 



for sheep, 635 

 Foot-and-mouth disease, in cattle, 251 



in pigs, 384 

 Foot-rot in sheep, 677 



in cattle, 251 

 Ford, William, a breeder of Suffolk 



sheep, 615 

 Forest laws, the, 31 

 Foul in the foot, 346 

 Founder or laminitis in horses, 513 

 Four-horned sheep, 521 ; plates cxxxix., 



cxl, cxli 



Fowlers, the, as cattle exporters, 210 

 Free-martin, a, 22 

 Friesland cattle, 207 

 Furze as horse food, 505 



Gallop, some consecutive phases of the, 



Galloway breed of cattle, 173-186 

 cattle, sheeted or belted, 182 

 crosses, excellence of, 177, 179, 



199 



Galloway Herd Book, 177 

 Gallon's, Frances, theory of the con- 

 tinuity of germ-plasm, 6 

 Galvayne, Sydney, on " Horse Denti- 

 tion," 496 

 " Galvayning " position, a colt in the, 



495 

 Gargot (inflammation of the udder), 



342 

 Carton, John, on heredity in plants, 



25 



Gestation, period of, in cows, 331 



in ewes, 623 



in mares, 484 



in sows, 375 



" Gid " or " sturdy " in sheep, 663 

 Gilbert, Dr, on sheep-feeding, 637 

 Gilbey, Walter, on the horse, 422 

 Gillespie, the Very Rev. Dr, on Gallo- 

 way cattle, 1 80 

 Gilpin, William, on the " Wag-horn " 



breed, 103 



Glamis, Ralston's experiments at, 12 

 Glamorgan breed of cattle, 145 

 " Glancer " (Clydesdale horse), 406 



