CONTENTS 



PART I. 

 HISTORY AND BREEDS. 



BRITISH BREEDS The Shropshire The Hampshire The Southdown 

 The Oxford The Suffolk The Dorset Down The Dorset Horn The 

 Cheviot The Lincoln The Cotswold The Leicester The Border 

 Leicester The Romney Marsh The Devon Longwool Wensleydales 

 The Dartmoor South Hams The Roscommon The Ryeland The Ex- 

 moor Lonk Sheep The Herdwick Kerry Hill Sheep Gritstone Sheep 

 Welsh Mountain Sheep^-The Radnor Sheep The Blackface Highland 

 The Clun Forest Sheep The Norfolk Sheep Wiltshire SheepThe 

 York or Penistone Sheep Berkshire Sheep Breton Sheep Orkney 

 Island Sheep Shetland Sheep The Larzac Sheep The Himalayan 

 Mountain Sheep Abyssinian Sheep Somaliland Sheep The Wallachian 

 Sheep Barbados Sheep Tibet Sheep Astrachan Sheep Iceland Sheep 

 St. Kilda Sheep Sheep of the Philippine Islands Holland Sheep The 

 "Mayo Horny" Sheep The Crimean Sheep. French Breeds The "Moor" 

 Sheep of Syria Quarto-Nippled Sheep "Old Mountain Sheep" Sahara 

 Sheep The Tunis Sheep The "Corriedale" Sheep Persian Sheep Fine- 

 wool Breds The American Merino The Rambouillet The Delaine- 

 Merino The Franco-American Black Sheep Goat Sheep Hybrid 

 Interesting Breed Experiments British Sheep Nomenclature. 



PART II. 

 GENERAL MANAGEMENT. 



Sheep on the Average Farm Profits Hints to Beginners Environ- 

 ment Aristocracy and Sheep Millionaire Flockmasters Sheep Farming 

 in England The Shepherd Selection of Breeding Stock Constitution 

 Points of Sheep The Fleece The Skin Select Only Healthy Stock The 

 Ram Selection of the Ram On the Care of the Ram The Breeding 

 Season Period of Gestation Flushing Bre'eding the Ewes Barren Ewes 

 Care of the Ewe Marking the Lambs Breeding In-Breeding In- 

 Breeding and "Climatic Out-Crossing" Breeding Ewe Lambs Control- 

 ling the Sex Prolificacy Twins vs. Singles Water Shade The Sheep 

 Barn The Hospital The Shepherd's Quarters Hayracks Portable Pens 

 Cleaning the Sheep Barn The Sheep Yards Management of the Yean- 

 ing Ewe Troubles of the Lambing Fold How to Catch a Sheep Clip- 

 ping the Wool From the Ewe's Flanks Raising "Cosset" Lambs Trans- 

 ferring the Lamb The Stanchion Weaning the Lambs Reviving a 

 Chilled Lamb Drenching Sheep The Care of Young Stock Shearing- 

 Tying the Fleece Dipping Docking and Castrating Culling Spring and 

 Summer Care Fall Care Winter Care Mutton Form Mutton Lamb 

 Feeding Live Weight Gains of Wethers Screenings Shipping Crates 



