SHEEP. 



Exhibiting Females — Sheep Dogs — Sheep Call — Evenings in May — 

 Original type of Sheep — Corsican Moufflon — Welsh, Cotswold, 

 Southdown, Eoman, Dartmoor, Radnor, Merino Breeds— Cots- 

 wold Sheep degenerate in "Wales — Black Sheep — Sir Charles 

 Morgan — Spanish Shepherds — Shelter for Sheep— Straw Pens 

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

 weak Foal — "Nursing Lambs — Abortion — Breeding Ewes — Mares 

 slinking Foals 1 — Weaning Lambs — Best Keep — Symptoms of 

 disordered Health — Remedy — Fatal Propensity to follow in 

 Sheep — Stupidity — Dipping the Flock — Shrewd Rat— Trimming 

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

 Peasants harvesting on the Campagna — Author's Experience of 

 this Disease— Suckling Ewes escape— Ellman's Opinion — Probably 

 die in Parturition — Nature of Disease — Recipe — Preventives — 

 Professor 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 fattening — Growth 

 of Wool— Norway Sheep — Sign to Mariners — Highland Sports- 

 men — Nature of Fat— Suet — Slugs' Tenacity of Life — Shelter for 

 Sheep on Turnips — Penrhyn Castle Plan— Mountain Sheep — 

 Small Farmers' Plan of Sheltering — Wretchedness of Ordinary 

 Exposure— Fleece — Washing Flocks— Shearing— Yolk of Wool 

 — Weight — Clipping Lambs — Ellman — Clip Tails of Ducklings 

 — Experiments at Rambouillet on the Growth of Wool. 



