INDEX 



755 



Prices, highest, for Shorthorns, 725 

 Proteid, a new source of, 267 

 Prussic acid poisoning, 327 

 Punch, Suffolk, 423 



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Quagga, n, 481 

 Quarter 111, 249 

 Quartlys, the, as improvers of the 



Devon breed of cattle, 127 

 Quayle, Thomas, on Jersey cattle, 212, 



224 



Queen's premiums, 437 

 plates, 438 



RACK or pace, the, 455 



Ralston's interesting experiment with 



Polled Angus cattle, 12 

 Ramage, on Wild Cattle of Great 



Britain, 36 



Recapitulation, Reid on, 8 

 Rectum, protrusion of, in pigs, 384 

 Red cow, the, of South England, 132 

 Red Polls, the, 156-162 

 Red- water, 249 



Refrigeration in dairy, 689-698 

 Reid, Archibald, on Crossing, 6-10, 21 



on Heredity, 36 

 Resemblance, family, 4 

 Reversion, 20, 21 

 " Ride " time, 619 

 Rinderpest, effects of, 253, 256 

 Ringworm, liability of cattle to, 240 



organisms producing, 241 

 " Roan Roy" (Hereford), 290 

 Robertson, James, an improver of Kerry 

 cattle, 205 



John, an improver of Highland cattle, 



137 



Romney Marsh sheep, 589 

 Roscommon sheep, 588 

 Rotation of crops, 703 

 Rule of the road, 453 

 Rumen, impaction of the cows, 344 

 Riitimeyer's Domestic Cattle of the 



Ancients, 35, 36 

 Ryeland sheep, 597 



Rysdyk's " Hambeltonian " (horse), 

 457 



SALERS cattle, 124 

 Sallenders, 124 

 Salt, poisoning of pigs, 386 

 Scab-mites, 646 



" Scally-wag," the American, 10 

 Scapula of a Clydesdale horse, 414 

 Scrofula in Pigs, 384 

 Selection, artificial, 10, 41 



theory of natural, 7 

 Sellar, Patrick, 529 

 Servant, how to be a successful, I 

 Shaw, A. W., on Pigs, 353 

 Shearing of sheep, 630 



by mechanical means, 630-632 

 Sheep, aboriginal features of, 521 



Blackface, 532 



blindness in, 673 



blotches in, 679 



Border-Leicester, 576 



braxy in, 671 



British breeds of, 520 



"buisting" or marking of, 631 



Cheviot, 526 



chickweed hurtful to, 68 1 



clipping or shearing of, 630 



Clun Forest, 566 



Cotswold, 587 



Dartmoor, 569 



Derbyshire Gritstone, 552 



Devon Long-wool, 586 



dew-rot in, 680 



dip constituents, 649 



dipping of, 643 



Dishley-Leicester, 574 



dogs, 682 



dog trials, 687 



Dorset and Somerset horn, 593 



Dorset Down, 609 



drench for a, 667 



eild, how known, 621 



Exmoor horn, 567 



Faroe Islands, 525 



fecundity of, 519 



flies affecting, 644 



foot-rot in, 677 



four-horned, 521 



"gid" or "sturdy" in, 663 



grass-ticks, 643 



Hampshire Down, 610 



Herdwick, 555 



" husk " or " hoose " in, 666 



kades or ticks on, 643 



Kent or Romney Marsh, 584 



Kerry Hill, 562 



Leicester, English, 573 



lice, 644 



Limestone breed of, 552 



Lincoln Long-wool, 582 



liver-rot in, 665 



Long-woolled Devon, 586 



Lonk, 548 



"loupin* ill" in, 673 



lung disease in, 669 



management of, 619-681 



Manx, 521 



Merino, 590-593 



