CONTENTS. 



Thatched Shed— Folding— Arthur Young — Tartar kills a weak 

 Foal — Nursing Lambs — Abortion — Breeding Ewes — Mares slink- 

 ing Foals — Weaning Lambs — Best Keep — Symptoms of Dis- 

 ordered Health — Remedy — Fatal Propensity to follow in Sheep 

 — Stupidity — Dipping the Flock — Shrewd Bat — Trimming the 

 Hoof — Precautions against the Fly — The Rot — Cause — Peasants 

 harvesting on the Campagna — Author's Experience of this Dis- 

 ease — Suckling Ewes escape— Ellman's Opinion — Probably die 

 in Parturition — Nature of Disease — Recipe — Preventives — Pro- 

 fessor Symonds — Estimate of Deaths : Youatt's — Symptoms of 

 Rot— Age to begin Breeding — Time of Lambing — Christmas 

 Lambs in the South of France — Docking — Castration — How to 

 form a breeding Flock — Food affects flavour of Mutton — Can a 

 Sheep be fattened twice ? — Comparative Value of Wool of 

 Wether, Ewe, Ram, dead Sheep — Plucking practised in the Ork- 

 neys — Value of Sheep as Fertilisers — Effect of Digestion on 

 Food — Law of Increase in Nature — Leaves derive Nutriment 

 from the Air — Australia— New Zealand — Music aids to fatten- 

 ing—Growth of Wool— Norway Sheep — Sign to Mariners — 

 Highland Sportsmen — Nature of Fat — Suet— Slugs' Tenacity of 

 Life — Shelter for Sheep on Turnips — Penrhyn Castle Plan — 

 Mountain Sheep — Small Farmers' Plan of Sheltering — Wretch- 

 edness of ordinary Exposure — Fleece — Washing Flocks — Shear- 

 ing — Yolk of Wool — Weight — Clipping Lambs — Ellman — Clip 

 Tails of Ducklings— Experiments at Rambouillet on the Growth 

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FOWLS. 



Mortimer — Game Fowl— Spanish — Dorking — Cochin-China — 

 Cross-bred — Mr. Booth of Warlaby — Bantams — French Plan of 

 getting extra Eggs — Geese — Turkeys — Care required in nursing 

 the young Brood — Plan in the Western Isles — Crusoe-like Re- 

 sources — Ducks : Aylesbury, Rouen, East Indian — Common 

 Wild-Duck — Carrion-Crows : Necessity of destroying — Gravel 

 Walks — Tough Poultry — Henhouse and Nests — Broken Legs — 

 Surgery, &c. 101 



