752 



INDEX 



Horse, Suffolk, endurance and longevity 

 of, 427 



three toes of, 9 



Thoroughbred, the, 430 



War-, the, 421 



water for a, 507 



Wild, 390 



Yorkshire coach, 451 

 Horses, entire, in France, II 

 Hoven in calves, 236 



in cows, 328 



in lambs, 633 

 Howatson, Charles, a noted breeder of 



Blackface sheep, 538 

 " Hubback" (Shorthorn bull), 57, 64 

 Hughes, Professor T. M 'Kenny, on 



Wild Cattle, 33 



" Humlies" or Buchan cattle, 164 

 Hunters' Improvement Society, 439 

 " Husk " or " hoose " in calves, 239 



in sheep, 666 

 Hypoderma bovis affecting cattle, 256 



Imagination, effects of, in conception, 



12 



In-and-in breeding of cattle, 14, 31, 36, 

 46, 60, 63 



of horses, 432 



India, distribution of cattle in, 134 

 Indigestion in cattle, 274 

 Inflammation after lambing, 624 



in a horse, 510 

 Inheritance, force of, 10, 23 

 Injection or pump (Watney's), 341 



fig- 



Intravaginal injection, 336 

 Inversion of the uterus in cows, 337 



in ewes, 624 

 Irish horse, medieval, 463 



milking cow, 2OI 



" Isabella," the so-called " perfect " 

 cow, 62 



J 



Java bean, 327 

 Jersey bulls, ferocity of, 224 

 cattle, 211 



demand for, in America, 213 

 points of, 223 

 cows, docility, 224 

 milk of, 223, 226 

 Jersey Herd Book, 214 

 Jersey, the, 211-227 

 Thornton on, 212 

 Jumping records, 403 

 Just-Hatmaker process, 699 



K 



Kades, 643, plate ccva 

 Kent or Romney Marsh sheep, 584-586 

 held in great favour in New Zealand. 



585 



Kerry breed of cattle, 201-204 

 cow, excellence of, 203 

 crosses, 206 

 Dexter variety of, 204 



points of, 204 

 Kerry Herd Book, 2O2 

 Killerby Shorthorns, 65 

 Kilmory herd of Wild Cattle, 50 

 Kiloe, the, 135 



Kirknewton Guernsey herd, 229 

 Knox, Dr Robert, on Wild Cattle, 35, 



40,41 

 Kohl (Arab) horse, 433 



Labour in cows, causes of premature, 334 



protracted, 333 

 Laburnum poisoning, 261 

 Lactation in cows, period of, 323 

 "Lady" (a famous Shorthorn cow), 58 

 Lambing-pen, 622 fig. 

 Lambs, castration of, 627 



early treatment of, 625 



feeding of, 627, 632 



housing of, 539 



milk-sickness in, 543 



weaning of, 632 



Lamarck's theory of evolution, 7 

 Lameness in cows, 346 

 Laminitis, 513, 517 

 Lamphey Court herd, 32, 145 

 Latent characters, 23 

 Lathyrus sativus, 503 

 Lawes and Dr Gilbert, experiments in 



sheep-feeding, by Sir J. B., 637 

 Lead-poisoning, 238 

 Leicester (Border) sheep, 576 



(Dishley) sheep, 574 

 Leigh Court wild herd of cattle, 27 

 Leslie, Bishop, on Wild Cattle, 29 

 Lice on cattle, 241 



paraffin oil a remedy for, 242 

 Lice on sheep, 644 

 Limestone breed of sheep, the, 552 



points and characteristics of, 553 

 Lincoln Long-wool, 582 



Red Shorthorns, 93 

 Lincolnshire breed of pigs, 663 

 Lindsay, Henry, experiments carried 



out by, at Glamis, 12 

 Line-breeding, 1 6 

 Lithoderm, 290 

 Litter for horses, 509 

 Live Stock Societies, 715 



