Index. 



289 



tracted, 127; diagram of the under 

 surface, 116. 



Fetlock, the, 15. 



Figging or gingering, 61. 



Flexion and extension, 13. 



Flushing ewes, 76; cows, 176. 



Foals, percentage of, 77. 



Food, how taken in by animals, 34; 

 preparatory work with, 32; dis- 

 posal of waste from the, 59. 



Foot and limb troubles, 230. 



Footrot in cattle and sheep, 241. 



Forging, 125. 



Founder, 215; symptoms of, 216; in 

 cattle and sheep, 217. 



GAIT and the shoulder slope, 13. 

 Garget, 178. 

 Gastric juice, 50. 

 Germol, 136. 



Gestation in animals, 76. 

 Ginger, actions and uses of, 143. 

 Glanders and farcy, 263. 

 Goitre in sheep, 68, 285. 

 Gonorrhoea (so called) or clap in 



stallions, 273. 

 Grub in the head, 254. 



HAIR, 112; care of the, 114. 

 Hamstring, 30. 



Handling sheep, 192, 149. 



Hatching or incubating tempera- 

 ture, 82. 



Haw, the, 109. 



Hay, overfeeding with, 222. 



Hay tea, 162. 



Head, sinuses of the, 7. 



Heart, the, 98. 



Heat in animals, 74. 



Heaves, 69, 56; causes and treat- 

 ment, 221, 285. 



Heifers, breeding of, 78. 



Hen, urinary and reproductive or- 

 gans of the, 81; diseases of the, 279. 



Histology, definition of, 2. 



Hocks, coarse, 19; curby, 267; dis- 

 eases of the, 244-247. 



Hog cholera, 264. 



Hoof, the, 116; development of the, 



120; ointments, 120; a good, 121; 



care of the, 123. 

 Hooks or hips, 16. 

 Horns, the, 114; removal of the, 200. 

 Horn fly of cattle, 255. 

 Horses, giving medicine to, 147; 



throwing, 190. 



INCUBATION OF POULTRY, 82. 

 Indigestion in pigs, 280. 



Inflammation, signs of, 166. 



Influenza, 273. 



Insertions of muscles, 25. 



Intelligence and brain develop- 

 ment, 106. 



Interfering, 126. 



Intestines, the small, 53; the large, 

 56; digestion in the, 53, 57. 



JOINTS, formation of, 7; some dis- 

 eases of, 185, 236, 238, 244. 

 Joint-ill or navel-ill, 185. 

 Joint oil, 31, 14. 



KEROSENE, actions and uses, 143. 

 Kicker, shoeing a, 127. 

 Kidneys, shape of, 61; work of, 62. 

 Knee, formation of, 14. 



LACTEALS, location of the, 57, 58. 

 Lambs, goitre and, 68, 284; con- 

 stipation in, 183; docking, 10, 208; 

 castration, 204 



Lameness, detection of, 30, 230. 



Lampas, danger of lancing, 35; a 

 sign of tooth troubles, 225. 



Larynx, the, 67; roaring and the, 67. 



Lateral cartilages, the, 118, 119; dis- 

 eases of the, 237. 



Laudanum, actions and uses of, 141. 



Laxatives, 135. 



Lice, on stock, 252; on poultry, 255. 



Ligaments, 7. 



Limbs, the fore, 12; the hind, 16. 



Lime water and its uses, 140. 



Linseed, oil, 141; meal in condition 

 powders, 141. 



Listerian treatment of wounds, 194. 



Liver, the work of the, 53. 



Lockjaw, 109, 265. 



