Index. 



223 



Lambing pens, 39 



Lambing time, 45 



Lambs, adopted, 51 

 weak, 48 

 castrating, 75 

 cow's milk for, 69 

 culling the, 138 

 disowned, 48 

 docking, 77 

 feed for young, 61 

 grain for young, 68 

 grain trough for, 67 

 make best gains, 146 

 marking, 72 

 raising by hand, 70, 71 

 selecting the good, 64 

 weaning, 83 

 when to market, 164 

 winter, 167 



Leading the sheep, 23 



Legume hay for fattening, 161 



Lice, 97 



Lifeless lamb, reviving, 49 



Lifting small sheep, 23 



Linseed meal for fattening, 160 



Lips, opening the, to determine 

 age, 30 



Maggots, 125 



cause, 128 

 prevention, 128 

 treatment, 129 



Mangels dangerous to rams and 

 wethers, 133 



Manure, value of sheep, 2 



Market, time to, 164 



Marking lambs, 72 



Marsh hay, poor for sheep, 36, 

 161 



Medicine, administering, 113 



Medicines helpful to the flock- 

 master, 123 



Milk, cow's, for young lambs, 69 



Narrow door, danger from, 37 



Oat- and pea-hay, 36 



Oat hay, 36 



Oats for fattening, 158 



Oat straw, 36 

 Overheating, 211 



Parasites, prevention and treat- 

 ment of, 105 



Patience, importance of, 149 



Pea-cannery refuse, 161 



Peas, grazing on field, 161 



Pea straw for fattening, 161 



Pens, lambing, 39 



Percentage of lambs, increasing, 

 136 



Period of gestation, 43 



Pinchers for docking, 80 



Points of good ewes, 17 



Points of a good ram, 7 



Punctuality, value of, 151 



Pure-bred ram, importance of, 4 



Raising lambs, 61 

 Ram, age to use, 9 

 care in fall, 11 

 care in summer, 10 

 care in winter, 16 

 feed for, 16 

 field, for breeding, 9 

 number of ewes to one, 15 

 painting, on brisket, 13 

 points of a good, 7 

 saving vitality of, 13 

 scrub, unprofitable, 4 

 selection of, 5 

 show, for breeding, 9 

 sugar beets and mangels 



dangerous for, 17, 133 

 turning with ewes, 11 

 using a lamb, 9 

 value of pure-bred, 4, 7 

 Rape, value of, 131 

 Reducing show sheep, 195 

 Reviving almost lifeless lambs, 



49 



chilled lambs, 50 

 Roots, danger from frozen, 36 

 for ewes, 34 



for fall and winter feed- 

 ing, 133 



for fattening, 161 

 Roughage for winter, 36 



