INDEX 



753 



Live Stock Computer (H. Meire's), 290 

 Live-weight of pigs, 380 



of cattle, 284-288 



fasted, 285 



Liver-rot in sheep, 665 

 Lochlyoch's black horse (Flemish 



stallion), 405 



Longhorn breed of cattle, 45, 46 

 Lonk sheep, 548 



Flock Book, 549 

 " Loupin' ill " or trembling in cows, 342 



in sheep, 673 



Low, David, on Dexter variety of Kerry 

 cattle, 74 



Dexter Shorthorns, 94 



Habitat of Longhorns, 61, 103 



Polled Suffolks, 162 



Preservation of Ancient cattle, 46, 



134, H9 



Welsh cattle, 142, 145 

 Lyme Park cattle, 29 

 Lymphangitis, 511 



epizootic, 517 



Lung disease in sheep, 668 

 Lung-sickness or lung-ziekte in goats, 

 671 



M 



Macadam, Stevenson, milk tests, 311 

 M'Call, Principal, on Lathyrus poison- 

 ing, 509 



M'Combie, William, on Cattle-breed- 

 ing, 1 66 



on Cattle- feed ing, 276 

 M'Dougall on maggot fly, 643 

 M'Jannet's weighing machine, 284 

 Maggot flies, 644 

 " Mahmud" (Arab horse), 436 

 Male animals, 1 8, 19 



influence of, 10, u 

 Mallenders or sallenders, 515 

 " Mambrino" (horse), 458 



Chiefs (trotters), 458 

 Mange in cattle, 347 

 Mare, time of conception by the, 483 



treatment of, 484 

 Mares, number of, served by a stallion, 



487 



Marshall, William, on North Devon 

 cattle, 115 



on Gloucester cattle, 147 



on Welsh cattle, 141 

 " Matchem " (horse), 431 

 Mathias, Charles, white herd of, 145 

 " Matopo " Burchell zebra stallion, 480 

 Maturity, propriety of forcing, 245 

 Measles in pigs, 384 

 Measurement of fat animals, to find 



dead-weight by, 289 

 Meire's Live Stock Computer, 290 

 Mendel's laws of inheritance, 25 



Merino sheep, 590-593 



breeders of, in this country, 592 



characteristics of, 590 



distinct types of, 591 



distribution of, 592 



Thomas Drewitt & Sons, history of a 

 flock of, 592 



wool, quality of, when grown in this 



country, 529 

 Metritis in ewes, 624 

 Milk, amount of, produced, 293, 297 



effect of cold or heat on, 292 



-fever, 339 



food on, 297 



-mirror theory, 324 



records, the Burton, 95 

 Milking, 317 



Anglesey cattle, 142 



Ayrshire cattle, 195 



breeds of British cattle, 185-230 



Devon cattle, 130 



Galloway cattle, 177 



Guernsey cattle, 228-230 



Jersey cattle, 217, 223-227 



Kerry cattle, 203 



machines, 321 



Orkney and Shetland cattle, 149 



qualities of Aberdeen-Angus cattle, 

 1 68 



Red Polls, 158-160 



Shorthorns, 58, 86-99 



Somerford White Herd, 1 50 



Welsh cattle, 143 



West Highland cattle, 139 

 Milk-sickness in lambs, 543 

 "Milling" of "cast" Cheviot ewes, 537 

 Mites, scab, 646-649 

 " Molascuit," 274, 308 

 Monday-morning evil, 511 

 Morgans, the, or Black Hawks, 453 

 Morton's, Lord, pure-bred Arab mare 



and quagga cross, u, 481 

 Mountain breeds of sheep, 526-571 

 Mouthing of the horse, 493 

 Mud-fever in horse, 512 

 Mug, see Wensleydale 

 Mule, the, 478-480 



value of, as a beast of burden, and 

 for tramway and farm work, 479 

 Muley cattle, 99 



Mundt's water-supply fitting, 508 

 Mutton versus beef, 541 



"Nancy Hanks" (American trotter), 



458 

 Natural breeding, 16 



herbage the best for dairy cattle, 294, 



329 

 Navel-ill in lambs, 625 



