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Index 



36 ; during the summer, 223 ; 

 at farrowing time, 76. 



Score-card, for bacon hogs, 403 ; 

 for brood sows, 407 ; for market 

 hogs of lard type, 396 ; use of, 

 in judging, 395. 



Scours in pigs, or diarrhoea, 85, 467- 

 468. 



Screenings, composition of, 271. 



Selection, principles in, 449. 



Self-feeder, 334 ; pigs on, Plate VII ; 

 for pigs before weaning, 84; for 

 pregnant sows, 63. 



Self-feeding vs. hand-feeding, 348. 



Selling hogs, 366. 



Sex characteristics in brood sows, 

 414. 



Shade and water, 224. 



Shaw, 322. 



Shipping hogs, 363 ; cars for, 364. 



Shorts, composition of, 271 ; money 

 value of, 273 ; money value of, 

 compared with skim-milk or 

 buttermilk, 275 ; as a supple- 

 ment to corn and tankage, 261. 



Shorts, or middlings, vs. linseed-oil 

 meal, 267 ; vs. tankage, 259, 260 ; 

 vs. skim-milk or buttermilk, 274. 



Silage for pregnant sows, 48. 



Simple inflammation of the mouth, 

 463-464. 



Sire and dam, relative influence of, 

 440. 



Skim-milk, or buttermilk, and corn- 

 meal required for 100 Ib. gain, 

 243 ; on pasture vs. skim-milk in 

 dry-lot, 146 ; as a supplement to 

 corn, 241 ; money value of, 242 ; 

 money value of, compared with 

 tankage, 249 ; vs. other protein 

 supplements, 246 ; vs. tankage, 

 248 ; proportions of, with corn, 

 247 ; tubercular, 253. 



Skinner, 317, 383; and Cochel, 

 245 ; and King, 301 ; and Smith, 

 213 ; and Starr, 302, 305. 



Smith, H. R., 253, 287, 288, 291. 



Smith, W. W., 436. 



Snyder, 45, 46, 48, 105, 346; and 

 Burnett, 201, 285, 288, 289, 298. 



Sore mouth or stomatitis, 463-466. 



Sorghum, characteristics of, as a 

 forage, 177 ; composition of, 280 : 

 for fattening pigs, 297 ; results 

 from pasturing, 178 ; vs. sorghum 

 and corn, 298. 



Sows, amount to feed during breed- 

 ing season, 13 ; birth weight of, 

 108 ; breed-type, characteristics 

 of, 415 ; care of, during farrow- 

 ing season, 69 ; care and feeding 

 just before farrowing, 71 ; condi- 

 tion of brood, 413 ; condition of, 

 in summer, 120 ; cost of summer 

 feeding of open and bred, 125, 

 126, 127 ; culling out unproduc- 

 tive, 89 ; effect of age of, on birth 

 weight of pigs, 110 ; effect of age 

 of, on size of litter, 108, 109; 

 feed consumption of, and litters, 

 94 ; feed cost of wintering preg- 

 nant, 65 ; feeding after farrowing, 

 74 ; feeding during the breeding 

 season, 8 ; feeding pregnant, 39 ; 

 feeding and management of 

 pregnant, during summer, 119; 

 feeding and management of 

 open, 123 ; feeding for milk pro- 

 duction, 81 ; feeding open year- 

 ling, 124; feet and legs of, 412; 

 "flushing," 11 ; general points 

 in judging, 409 ; market value of 

 old, 8 ; form of brood, 410 ; pig- 

 eating, 75 ; and pigs on alfalfa, 

 Plate V ; range for pregnant, 

 Plate II ; sex characteristics 

 and disposition of, 414 ; size of 

 brood, 409 ; quality of, 413. 



Soybeans, characteristics of, as a 

 forage crop, 178 ; limited vs. full 

 feeding on, 180 ; vs. linseed-oil 

 meal, 269; vs. rape, 181 ; results 

 from, forage, 182 ; vs. tankage, 

 262. 



Sperms (spermatozoa), 432. 



"Sports," see Reversion. 



Spotted Poland-China sow, Plate 

 XI ; history and characteristics 

 of, 427. 



Stags, 374. 



