INDEX. 



1241 



Sheep 



Australian sheep-husbandry 1003 



South America 1004 



Mexico 1005 



Cotswold breed 1006 



Leicester 1007 



Southdown 1007 



Comparison of values 1009 



Breeding the ewe 1009 



In-aud-in breeding 1012 



Time for dropping lambs. 1012 



Treatment of ewes in winter. ..1013 



Feed during gestation 1014 



Roots, and corn-fodder 1014 



Sheep stables 1015 



Tagging 1016 



Lambing 1017 



Castration of lambs 1020 



Lambs running with the flock. 1020 



Care of lambs in winter 1021 



Watering sheep 1021 



Fattening 1022 



Sheep for stock and for wool... 1024 



Washing 1026 



Shearing 1027 



Wool-press 1028 



The fleece. 1030 



Ticks 1031 



Maggots 1031 



Water, change of pasture, win- 

 ter feeding 1032 



Salt 1032 



The fly 1032 



Paper-skin 1033 



Scald-foot or fouls. 1034 



Toe-shears 1034 



Scab 1035 



Sheep-barns 1035 



Sheep-hook or shepherd's crook. 1038 

 Sheep as scavengers of land... 1038 



Dogs 1039 



Sheep-rack 421 



Shelf, Hanging, Rat-proof. 425 



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Shelter, Portable 429 



Shelves, Corner 435 



Shipping-box for fowls 416 



Shocking-horse 408 



Shocking wheat 180 



Short-horn Cattle 738 



Short-horn Cattle, Characteris- 

 tics of. 743 



Shrubs and flowers about house.. 390 

 Silo, A 



How to make 823 



Filling 825 



Silos and ensilage 821 



Silt-basins 68 



Slat shelves 428 



Sled-marker for corn 155 



Slobbers 139 



Slugs, Pear or cherry tree 356 



Small farms for poor men 395 



Snow-plow 41 1 



Soil adapted to corn 151 



Soil, Condition of. 20 



Soil, Fertility of the 93 



Sorghum 209 



Soil 211 



Cultivation 211 



Productiveness 212 



Manufacture 213 



Spanish (or Texan) Cattle 768 



Spinach 312 



Squash, Summer 312 



Winter 312 



Squash-bug 330 



Squash-vine Root-borer 332 



Stable-barrow 436 



Stables (see Barn) 1193 



Stacking stage 430 



Starch, what composed of 1171 



Stock-feeding 163 



Stock handling Introduction 439 



Suggestions and hints 440 



Stock on hiph-prired lands 442 



Views of Chambers Stewart... 442 



