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WESTERN GRAZING GROUNDS AND FOREST RANGES 



Sheep scab, work of Govern- 

 ment in controlling, 306. 



shearing by hand, 143. 



shearing by machine, 143. 



size of bands, 156, 157. 



teeth of, 172. 



value per head, 205. 



versus cattle, 215. 



water for, 154. 

 Shin oak, 268. 

 Shinneries, 268. 

 Shipping sheep, 156. 



stock, 136. 



Short-horns on the range, 91. 

 Shropshire sheep, 106. 

 Sleepy grass, peculiarities of, 



Small stock owners, position 



of, 234. 

 Snake bites, symptoms and 



remedies, 315. 

 Snake weed, 236. 

 Sneeze weed, injurious to 



sheep, 271. 

 poisoning, symptoms and 



remedies, 279. 

 water poisoned by, 271. 

 Silver City, New Mexico, good 



goat region, 109. 

 Single-wintered steers, 33. 

 Sorghum, 65. 



poisoning, danger of, 280. 

 Southern lamb trade, 36. 

 range, 33. 

 steer trade, 33. 

 South Park, Colorado, 66. 

 Southwestern grasses, 49. 

 Spade bits, 119, 358. 

 Spanish bayonet, 39, 49. 



ring bit, 358. 

 Spring ranges, 72. 

 Spurs and quirts, 361. 

 Squeeze chutes, 130. 

 Squirrel tail grass, 272. , 



Staked plains, origin of name, 



49. 



Stampedes, 132. 

 State lands, use of, 222, 223. 

 Stock cars, number of animals 



to a load, 136. 

 Stock, driveways, 213. 



Government rules for han- 

 dling, 173. 



medicines, how given, 284. 

 number of National Forests, 



224. 

 ranges, Government control 



of, 233. 



Stocking the ranges, 82. 

 Strawberry Valley Project, 202, 



222. 



Strychnine, use of, 250, 275, 338. 

 Success of the settlers, 86. 

 Sulphur for stock, 174. 

 Supra-orbits in horses, 169. 

 Swamp camas, 267. 



Sweet sage, 57. 



Teeth, telling age of stock by, 



164. 



Tennessee Pass of Colorado, 66. 

 Texas fever, history of, 294. 



losses from, 296. 



pastures, charges for, 200. 



quarantine against, 297. 



tick, how to recognize, 298. 



ticks, life history of, 297. 

 Ticks, Texas fever, 294. 

 Timothy, 61, 242. 

 Tonto Basin War 27. 

 Trails, cattle and sheep, 228. 

 Tramp stockmen, 214. 

 Traps, steel, how to set, 336. 

 Trocar, use of, 255. 

 Trapping predatory animals, 



Tumble weed, 63. 

 Turpentine, use in colic, 313. 

 Twins among stock, 147. 

 Two years before the mast, 22. 

 Utah state lands, 222. 



Veterinary surgeon, should be 

 called, 282. 



Warble flies, 323. 

 Warbles, in cattle, 324. 



life history of, 324. 



losses to stockmen from, 325. 

 Washington, average shearing 



of sheep, 206. 

 Water, for stock, 79. 



hemlock, description of, 267. 



hemlock, poisoning, symp- 

 toms and remedies, 277. 



sheep need little, 154. 

 Weeds eaten by sheep, 80. 

 Western wheat grass, 65. 

 Wheat grass, 64 70. 

 White bunch grass, 61. 

 White clover, 70. 

 Wild cats, losses from, 330 



oats, 61. 



pea (see lupine), 265. 



rye, 61. 



Wind colic, 312. 

 Winter fat, 57. 

 Wolfbane (see aconite). 268. 

 Wolfers, employment of, 332. 

 Wolf tail, 284. 

 Wolves, characteristics of, 330 



losses from, 327. 



poisoning of 333. 



size of litter, 334. 

 Wooden tongue, 286. 

 Wool, advance in prices, 142. 



average weight of clip, 148, 



cost of production, 206. 

 Wrong use of names, 99. 



Yucca, 43. 



Zuni, pueblo of, 100. 



