INDEX. 



251 



Fences, Portable 27 



Flax-Seed, Nutritive Value of. ... 65 

 Flesh and Blood, Analysis of Ash of 15 

 " Quantity Produced by Cer- 

 tain Foods 67 



Flesh-fly, the 234 



* Fluke, the Liver, Description of. 220 

 Fodder Crops 22 



" Analysis of 60 



" Nutritive Value of 61 



Foods for Winter Feeding 59 



" Composition of Various 60 



4i Choice of 65 



" Proper Allowance of 72 



" Quantity of, Needed 66 



" " for a Pound of 



Flesh 67 



Foot, Description of the 235 



44 Rot, Treatment of 236 



Foot-and-Mouth-Disease 210-238 



Fractures of the Bones 244 



* French Merino, Description of. . .128 



Gad-fly, the 233 



Garget, Treatment of 241 



Giddiness or Turnsick, Treatment 



for 226 



Grains, Nutritive Value of Various 64 



Grasses, Composition of Various.. 17 



" Suitable for Pasture . . . , ,^ 16 



* Hampshire-Down Sheep, Descripv _, 

 tionof. 116 



Heart, Structure and Functions of. 177 

 Hoven, Treatment of ,196 



* Hurdles, Use of 23 



* " for Refractory Ewe 37 



* Hydatids in the Brain 226 



Inflammation of the Bladder 213 



" " Bowels 199 



" " " Brain 216 



" " Liver 201 



Influenza, Treatment of 206 



Intestines of the Sheep 182 



Kentucky, Improved, Sheep 91 



* Kidney, Structure of the 186 



Lacteal Vessels 184 



Lambing, Diseases Connected with.239 

 Lambs, Castrating 39-243 



* " Dipping 48 



*' Diseases of 45-245 



" Docking 39-243 



" Feeding 40 



44 Laxative for 41 



44 Newly-born, Care of 37 



" Raising Early Market 73 



44 Twin, Feeding 37 



*'" Weaning 38 



Lamb's-Cordial 46 



* Lamb-Creep 41 



* Laurel, Poisoning by 198 



Leicester, Improvement of Other 



Breeds by 84 



* " Description of the 103 



* Leicester-Merino, Description of 

 the 135 



* Lincoln. Description of the 100 



Linseed-Oil-Cake-Meal, Value of... 64 



44 44 ' 4 " Substitute 



for 65 



Litter for Sheds 58 



Liver, Congestion of the 200 



" Description of the 183 



44 Inflammation of the 201 



" Rot. the 219 



Lockjaw, Treatment of 218 



* Louse, the Sheep 233 



* Lungs of the Sheep 176 



Lunor,worms in the, Treatment f or.223 



Manure, Value of 79 



Markets 8-73-81 



Market Lambs, Methods of Raising 74 



* " ' 4 Box for Shipping.. 76 



14 Profit of 78 



Measures, Explanation of 249 



Merino, American 92 



" French 128 



Saxon 94-130 



Silesian 132 



Spanish 8-127 



44 Importation of... 93 



" Improvement of .. 95 



Maturity of 43 



* Ram, Portrait of 98 



Wool, Value of 94 



" Weights of Fleeces 96 



Mexican Sheep 90 



Mustard, White, for Fodder 22 



Nerves of the Sheep 74 



* Nets for Folding Sheep *9 



Oil-Cake, Feeding Value of 64 



" " Manurial Value of 80 



Ophthalmia, Treatment of 242 



* Oxford-Down Sheep, Description 

 ofthe 110 



Pale Disease of Lambs 248 



Packinp Fleeces 161 



Palsy, Treatment of 218 



Paralysis, Treatment of 217-247 



Parasitical Diseases 219 



Parsley, Value of in Pastures 17 



Parturient Apoplexy and Fever.208-240 

 Pasture, Dry, Necessary for Health 14 

 Change of, Advantageous. 31 



Extent of, in the U. S 10 



Exposure of 22 



Grasses Suitable for 16 



Management of 20 



Suitable for Sheep 12 



Pining, Treatment of 203 



Plants, Poisonous 108 



Plethora, Treatment of 203 



Pleurisy, Treatment of 193 



Pneumonia, Treatment of 192 



Poisoning, Treatment of 198 



Pox, Sheep, Treatment of .211 



Prices of Wool in the World 166 



Production of Wool in the World. .165 



Purgatives, Use of 189 



Ram, Selection of the 49 



Red- water, Treatment of 207 



Reproductive Organs, the 187 



Respiration, Process of 175 



Respiratory Organs, Diseases of. . .190 

 Retention of Urine, Treatment of ..213 



Rheumatism, Treatment of 202 



*Romney Marsh Sheep, Descrip- 



