PART IV. 



INDEX. 



PAGE. 



Adaptation of sheep to natural 



surrounding - 608 

 Advantages of silage - - 623 

 Advice to buyers - - 608 

 Age for breeding - 618 

 Ant li rax 647 

 inoculation for - 647 

 symptoms of - 647 

 Art of breeding - 614 

 Australian millet - 628 

 Bad fences - 630 

 Barn and woolshed - - 637 

 Benefit of salt licks - - 644 

 Border Leicester sheep - 600 

 Branched panic grass - 628 

 Branding sheep - 638 

 Breeding - 609 

 ,, art of - 614 

 Bush fires - 630 

 hay - - 622 

 Calculating contents of tank - 626 

 Care during lambing - 642 

 ,, necessary during post mor- 

 tem 643 

 Castration - 642 

 Castrating lambs - - 640 

 Cheviot sheep - 607 

 Classing wool - 613 

 Coast disease - 648 

 Conditions of life - - 607 

 Conservation ot fodder - 620 

 of water - 624 

 Contents of tank, calculating - 626 

 Cots wold sheep - 600 

 Cotton grass - 628 

 Crossbreeding - 615 

 Culling flock - 612 

 hints - 613 

 Cure for footrot - 045 

 ,, for scab - 65 1 

 of fluke doubtful - 646 

 Cuts, dressing for - - 635 

 Cutting the lambs - - 640 

 Dam - 624 

 Difficulties to contend with - 606 

 Dishley sheep - 607 

 Dishorning rams - - 609 

 Dentition - 639 

 Devil's grip in wool - - 613 



Dipping for lice, trough for 

 Diseases of sheep 

 Dog and sheep 

 Downs sheep 

 Droving, use of dog in 

 Draughting sheep 



yard, plan 

 Dressing for cuts 



for footrot - 

 Earmarking 

 Easily made dip 

 English Leicester sheep 

 Environment 



Essential points in a sheep 

 Evils of overstocking 

 Ewes 



age for breeding 



,, when lambing, good feed 



for 



Excellence, standard of 

 Feed for sheep, native 

 Feeding sheep on straw 

 Fences . 



Fibre of wool 

 Fighting rams 

 Fire branding 

 Fire breaks 

 Fleece of rain 



how to roll 

 treatment of - 

 Flies 

 Flock, foundation of - 



management of 

 Fluke 



cure of, doubtful 



lick for cure of - 



life history 



symptoms of 

 Fodder, conservation of 

 Footrot 



remedies for - . 

 treatment 



trough for dressing 

 Foundation of the flock 

 Gestation, period of 

 Good feed for lambing ewes 

 points in the ram 

 qualities of merinos 

 Hampshire down sheep 



PAGE, 



- 643 



- 632 



- 60 1 



- <>3i 



- (>V 



- 635 



- 645 



- 637 



- 648 



- 600 



- 607 



- 620 



- 612 



- 618 



640 

 614 

 627 

 624 



035 



639 



630 

 610 

 635 



635 

 649 

 605 

 621 



640 

 646 

 4 o 

 (.40 



620 

 644 



"44 

 044 

 644 

 605 

 619 

 640 

 609 

 596 

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