INDEX 



463 



Cheviot, history, 145 



markings, 147 



mutton or lamb, 148 



origin of, 145 



properties of, 147 



skin, 147 



wool, 147 

 Clover, a cause of bloat, 277 



and corn, in fattening process, 376, 

 379 



feeding value of, 277 



sweet, feeding value of, 279 

 Coal tar dip, 310 

 Commission houses, wool marketing 



through, 414 

 Concentrates for fattening, 379 



barley, 380 



commercial, 381 

 beet by-products, 381 

 molasses products, 381 

 wheat bran, 381 

 screenings, 381 



composition of, 382 



emmer, 380 



grains, 379 



kafir corn, 380 



oats, 380 



peas and beans, 380 

 Constipation, in young lambs, 263 

 Cooperative selling of wool, 415 

 Corn, and alfalfa, for fattening, 374, 

 377 



and clover hay, 376, 379 



forms of feeding, 375 

 Cornfields, value of as feeding fields, 



388 



Corn harvesting with lambs, 388 

 Cornstalks, feeding value of, 390 

 Corriedale, 41, 163, 180 



breeding qualities, 182 



description, 180 



distribution, 183 



history, 180 



importation into U. S., 182 



mutton, 182 



properties of, 182 

 Cotswold, 124, 156 



breeding qualities, 158 



cross-breeding, 159 



description, 156 



distribution, 160 



formation of, 41 



history, 156 



markings, 158 



Cotswold, mutton, 159 



properties of, 159 



skin, 158 



transition from old to modern type, 

 156 



wool, 158 



Cowpeas, feeding value of, 281 

 Coyotes, depredations of, 424 

 Creep, 272 



construction of, 273 

 Cross-breeding, 40 



for wool and mutton combined, 33 



in England, 42 



in United States, 41 



of Cheviot, 148 



of Cotswold, 41 



of Hampshires, 40, 130 

 . of Karakul, 213 



of Leicesters, 153 



Border and Cheviot, 154 



of Oxford, 41 



rams on Merino ewes, 135 



of Shropshire, 40 



of Suffolk, 139 



trueness of type after, 41 



Devon Long Wool breed, 175 

 Digestible nutrients, hi fattening ra- 

 tion, 377 

 balance in, 379 

 protein, 378 

 in roughages, 385 

 in succulent feeds, 385 

 in various concentrates, 382 

 Digestive tract of sheep, 57 

 Dip, arsenical, 310 

 coal-tar, 310 

 lime-sulfur, 309 

 manufactured, 310 

 tobacco, 310 



Dipping, for destruction of lice, 306 

 of maggot fly, 306 

 of scab mite, 308 

 of ticks, 306 

 on western ranges, 419 

 plant, 447 

 Docking, 282 



operation for, 283 



Dogs, a menace to sheep raising, 312 

 Dorset Down, 173 

 Dorset Horn, 140 



breeding habits of, 64, 144 

 Delaine Merino cross, 144 

 description, 141 



