445 



Diseases and wounds of Sheep, Scours (see Ely, David, his " little - eared " sheep, 104. 



Diarrhea.) 



Scrofula, 378, 380. 



Small-pox, 345-353. 



Sore Pace, 269-271. 



Spruins, 382. 



Stretches, 310. 



Swelled Head, 268. 



Swelled Lips, 271. 



Swelled Neck, 152, 154, 380. 



Teeth, cutting of the 150. 



Tetanus, or Locked-Jaw, 281, 282. 



Variola Ovina (see Small-pox.) 



Water on the brain, 279. 280. 



Wild Fire, 344. 



Worms, 312. 



Wounds, 380-382 



Wounds, lacerated and contused, 381. 



Wounds, poisoned, 381, 382. 



Wounds, punctured, 381. 

 Disowning Lambs, 158, 159. 

 Distemper, the, 324. 

 Docking Lambs, 160, 161. 

 Dog, bites of the, 381. 



the dog, in connection with sheepi 393, 

 et seq. 



injuries inflicted by, on sheep, 393-3%. 



sheep dog described by Buffon, 396. 



Spanish, 397. 



Hungarian, 400. 



French, 401. 



Mexican, 401-405. 



South American, 405, 406. 



other large races, 406. 



English, or drover's, 407. 



Scotch, or Colley, 408-410. 



mongrel Colley, a sheep killer, 410. 



accustoming the sheep to the dog, 411. 

 Down Sheep, (see South Downs, Hamp- 

 shire Downs, Shropshire Downs and 

 Oxfordshire Downs.) 

 Drafting and selection, in flocks, 179. 

 Dropsy, acute, 304. 

 Drying off ewes, 158. 

 Dun, Finlay, on hereditary diseases, 379, 



380. 



Dunn, Christopher, origin of his Leicester 

 flock, 44. 



character of his flock, 44 note, 

 crosses it with Cotswold rams, 48. 

 Dunglison's Medical Dictionary, cited pas- 

 sim. 

 Dupont de Nemours, imports Merinos into 



United States, 22. 

 Dysentery, 308-310, 379, 380. 



E 



Elithorp, Prosper, length of his Merino 



wool, 76. 

 crosses the Paular and Infantado sheep, 



128 note. 



his remedy for stretches, 310. 

 his connection with the origin of the 



improved Paular family, 417-419. 

 furnishes an account of origin of, 419. 

 Ellman, Mr., his success inbreeding South 



Down sheep, 55 et seq. 

 followed in-and-in breeding, 119. 

 it was an element of his success, 122. 



English Breeders, their great skill in 



breeding mutton sheep, 132 note. 

 Enteritis, 306 



tic among sheep in 1846-17, 319, et 



seq. 



the lamb epizootic of 1862, 154, 226. 

 the term defined, 226 note. 

 Escurial Merino, 14. 

 Ewe, influence of on progeny, 110. 



fall feed and shelter necessary for, 202- 



205. 

 effect of neglect in this particular, 203, 



204. 



" hunger rot " described, 203, 204. 

 subject to other diseases when in low 



condition, 204. 

 does not take the ram uniformly when 



poor, 205. 



selection of for the ram, 205, 206. 

 coupling with the ram, modes of, 206, 



period of gestation in, 207. 



want of sagacity in protecting its 



young, 213. 

 injurious eflects of close confinement 



on, 222, et seq. 

 should not be confined to dry feed in 



winter, 222, et seq. 

 its prolificacy affected thereby, 222 et 



seq. 

 Exercise important for pregnant ewes, 223, 



Experiments in fattening sheep, 418- 



425. 

 Eye, inflammation of, 272. 



Face, sore, 269-271. 



Fall management of sheep, (s 



ment of sheep in fall). 

 Fat-Rumped sheep introduced into the 



United States, 53. 

 i Fattening Sheep, 418-425. 

 Fay, Richard S.. imports Shropshire sheep 



into United States, 66. 

 character of his sheep, 66, 67. 

 Feed, different values of, for fattening, 420- 



^.:periments in mixing, 419 et seq. 

 Feeds for sheep (see Fodder.) 

 Feeding sheep, _Mr. Pawlett's experiments 



Felting 'property of wool, how produced, 



Fences for sheep, value of different, 233, 



245. 

 Fever, 316. 



inflammatory, 316, 317. 

 malignant inflammatory, 317, 318. 

 typhus, 318. 

 parturient, 331-337. 

 puerperal, (see fever parturient). 

 Fischer, Ferdinand, established the family 

 of Merinos, now termed Silesian m 

 the United States, 39. 



Fischer Louis, son of preceding, continues 

 the flock, 39. 



