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Index 



Trotting, continued 



records, 453-4 

 Tuberculin test of cattle at markets, 94 

 Turk horse, origin of, 425 

 Two-shear, definition of, 217 

 Two-tooth, definition of, 217 



Type and market class, distinctions between, 119-20 

 definition of, 29 

 in hogs, changes in, 388-90 

 of horse to breed, choice of a, 498-9 

 value of, in beef making, 70-7 

 Types of cattle, 28-9 

 horses, 431 



effects of mechanical inventions on, 



430-1 

 origin of, 424-31 

 sheep, 215-7 

 swine, 313-4 



Udder of cow, blood supply of, 183-4 

 structure of, 180-2 

 dairy cow, 170-2 

 Union Stock Yards, Chicago — 



description of, 85 

 founding of, 84-5 

 methods and cost of market- 

 ing horses at, 477-8 

 see Chicago. 



sources of receipts, 79-80 

 Unsoundness in the horse, 523-34 



Vaccination of hogs at markets, 94 

 Variations in usefulness of dairy cows, 188-94 

 Veal calves, 132-3 



when marketed in large numbers, 133 



consumption in U. S., 146, 384 



various countries, 335 



exports and imports, 146 



production, annual, in U. S., 145-6 



see Calves. 



value of, produced in U. S., 347 



Wagon horses, 483-8 



Walk, running, described, 464-5 



trot, canter horse, 465 

 War horse, origin of, 425 

 Warmed-up cattle, 121 

 Weanling, definition of, 400 

 Weeds, 492 



Weight desired in market bacon hogs, 327-8 

 dressed, average of lambs, 230 

 sheep, 230 

 for age, beef bulls and cows, 157 

 draft horses, 446 

 lard hogs, 326 

 steers, 45-6 

 hogs sell largely according to, 393-4 

 importance of, in draft horses, 432-3 

 of draft horses, 446 



hogs, most profitable, 326 

 veal calves, 132-3 

 Weights of beef cattle in early times, 96-7 

 cattle monthly at Chicago, 80-1 



stockers and feeders, 134 

 hog carcasses, 341 

 hogs in early times, 388-9 



January at Chicago, 3S9 

 market classes, 365 

 mature bacon type, 328 



lard type, 326 

 monthly and yearly averages at 



Chicago, 356-7 

 packed in winter in West, 389 

 yearly at Chicago, 389 



seven markets, 355-6 

 horses, 481 

 lambs, fat, 249-50 



feeders, 256-7 

 pork products, 345, 346 

 sheep monthly at Chicago, 240 

 Western range cattle, 120-1 



breeding in various states 



155-6 

 movement into corn belt, 

 147-9 



Western range, continued 



receipts at Chicago, 79 

 live-stock industry, 25 

 horses, 491 



sheep, characteristics of, 244-6 

 prices at Chicago, 263-4 

 Wether, definition of, 217 

 Wethers, fat, 254 



feeders, 259 

 Wheel mules, 521 

 Whistling, 532 

 Wholesale cuts of beef, 58-60 



mutton and lamb, 234-5 

 pork, 343-5 

 Wiltshire side, 342 

 Windgall, 534 

 Wool, black, 307 

 burs in, 307 

 carbonization of, 302-3 

 clip of world, 303 

 consumption per capita, 288 

 cooperative marketing of, 308-10 

 cotted or matted, 307 

 dyeing, 291 



factors determining value of, 305-8 

 felting quality of, 289 

 fiber, strength of, 306 



structure of, 288-9 

 fineness of, 289-90 

 frowzy, 300 

 grading, 294-300 

 imports and exports, 304-5 

 market classes and grades, 294-300 

 marketing properly, 307-8 

 markets in America, 305 

 Ohio Sheep and Wool Growers' Associa- 

 tion, 310 

 packing, 307 

 painted, 306 



pooling by growers, 308-10 

 pounds per pound of cloth, 291 

 prices of scoured and raw, 305-6 

 -producing sta- e; 303-4 

 production in U. S., 303-4 

 pulling, 301-2 

 scouring, 302 

 see Fleece and ' /^ ols. 

 shearing, hand ^ - machine, 307 

 shrinkage, 304, ' .-6 



of va .s grades, 297-9 

 sorting, 300-1 

 tags, 306 

 wet, 307 

 Woolens and worsteds, 290-1 

 Wools, American, how to improve, 307-8 

 and wool growing, 288-310 

 bright and semi-bright, 292 

 carding, 290 

 carpet, 292 



classifications of, 292-300 

 clipped and pulled, 292 

 clothing, 290 

 combing, 290 



and clothing, values of, 294 

 domestic and territory, 292-3 

 government standards, 299-300 

 Ohio, 292 



see Fleece and Wool. 



washed, unmerchantable, and unwashed, 

 293-4 

 Worms, stomach, of sheep, 245-6 

 Worsteds and woolens, 290-1 



Yardage charges at Chicago — 



cattle and calves, 87-8 



hogs, 354 



sheep and goats, 240 

 Yearling sheep, fat, 253-4 

 feeders, 259 



stockers, 135 

 Yeld mare, definition of, 400 

 Yolk, 223 



secretion and composition, 290 

 Yorkers, 370-1 



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