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INDEX 



House, cost of building, 15 

 Hudson Bay Company'6 lands, 13 



Implements and approximate 



prices, 71 

 Increase in cattle, 72-77 



various causes of losses, 

 72, 73 

 in horses, 79 

 in sheep, 81, 82 



Jerseys, 30 



Lambing -time, early frosts and, 52 



Lambs, 52 



Lassooing, 36, 65 



Leicestershires, 49 



Lethbridge, 8 



Locating, 11 



Losses in cattle, 10 per cent, allow- 

 ance for, 74 

 in horses, 12 per cent, al- 

 lowance for, 78 



Macleod, 8 

 Manitoba, 5, 29, 49 

 Maple Creek, 8 

 Medicine Hat, 8 

 Mixed bunch, 30, 76 

 " Muskegs," 39 



Outfit, 1, 2, 3 

 Oxford Downs, 49 



Percheron6, 43, 44 

 Pole Angus, 30 



Quarter sections, 11, 12, 13 



Railway lands, 12, 13 

 Ranching districts, 4, 5, 6, 8 

 Range stock, 28, 29, 75 



when ready for beef, 29 



buying of, 32 

 Roofs, 18, 24 

 Root-house, 26 

 Round-up, 28, 42, 47, 62-66 



District Stock Association, 



62, 66 



rider's " string " of horses, 



63, 66 

 horse-Wrangling, 64 

 cattle-herding, 64 



" cutting out," 65 



Saskatchewan, 42 

 School lands, 13 

 Seotions, 11, 12, 13 

 Shed, 21, 41 



Shed, dimensions of, 21 



building of, 22-26 

 Sheep, 48-54 



breeding, compared to that 

 of cattle and horses, 48 



special districts for, 48 



markets for, 49 



foot-rot in, 49 



breeds of, 49 



herding and care of, 50 



Winter shelter, 50 



castration, of 53 



dipping of, 53 



shearing of, 53 



knowledge absolutely essen- 

 tial, 80 



number of rams required to 

 run with herd, 81 



increase of, 81, 82 

 Shire horses, 43 

 Shorthorn, 30 

 Shropshires, 49, 50 



prices of ewes, 50 

 Southdowns, 49 

 Spaying of heifers, 77 

 Stable, 19, 20 



stalls, 20 

 Stallion, 46 



hints when serving, 46, 47 

 Steers, winter feeding of, 39 



spring shipping of, 39 



prices of, for beef in spring, 39 

 for beef in autumn, 40 



cost of transport of, 40 

 Stock Associations, 62, 66 

 Suffolk Punch, 43 

 Swift Current, 8 



Timber, 14 



permit for cutting, 14 

 quantity allowed to be cut, 14 

 for shed construction, 25, 26 

 for root-hou6e, 26 



Townships, 10, 11, 12, 13 



Wages, 6 



Water, 13, 14, 38, 41, 43 

 Watering 6tock, 19 

 Winter, severity of, 29 



feeding of calves in, 37, 77 

 Wolves, 50, 51 



Government bounty on, 50 



price of skins, 51 



poisoning carcasses for 51 



Yukon Territory, 49 



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