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INDEX 



Ranges, western, management of, 402 

 basis of, 402 

 fall and winter, 410, 411 

 herders and camp tenders, 



duties of, 402, 403 

 kind of men employed, 404 

 Mexican, 404 

 of California, 405 

 of Northwest, 405 

 provisions for, 405 

 labor required to handle a 



band, 402 



in shearing season, 406 

 in lambing season, 406 

 losses, by "strays," 423 

 from coyotes, 424 

 from lack of shelter, 422 

 from poisonous plants, 423 

 from predatory animals, 424 

 from snowstorms, 421 

 of young lambs, 424 

 problems in, 421 

 losses, 421 

 selling price, 425 



shortage of feed, 424 

 ranch headquarters, 406 

 size of band, 402 

 spring and summer, 416 

 summer range, 421 



transfer to, 419 

 wages per month in various 



states, 406 

 nature of range, 393 

 ownership of, 395 

 private, 399 



railway land grants, 399 

 U. S. Government, 395 

 predatory animals, protection 



from, 416 



profit and loss on, 421 

 shearers, 413 



carelessness of, 413 

 hand, 412 



nomadic life of, 413 

 shearing, 411 

 camps, 411 



hand and machine, 412 

 number of fleeces removed per 



day, 412 



types of land utilized, 393 

 foothills and mountains, 393 

 plains, 393 



Ranges, western, wool, marketing of, 



414 



by auction sales, 415 

 by commission houses, 414 

 by contracting, 414 

 by cooperative selling, 415 

 expense of, 416 

 Rape, a cause of bloat, 280 

 t caution in use of, 280 



fattening power of, 280, 387 

 feeding value of, 279 

 growing of, 388 

 sown in corn, 280 

 Rations, dry lot, for suckling ewes, 



269 



of Illinois Station, 269 

 of Ohio Station, 270 

 Record of service, keeping of, 231 

 Roots, a sheep feed, 239 

 feeding value of, 383 

 in fattening process, 377 

 Romney Marsh sheep, 164 

 description, 164 

 distribution, 166 

 history, 164 

 native home of, 164 

 old type, 164 

 properties of, 165 



breeding qualities, 166 

 hardiness, 165 

 mutton quality, 166 

 resistance to disease, 165 

 superior as a grazing sheep, 



166 



wool, 165 

 Roughage and grain, proportion of in 



fattening process, 373 

 Roughages, comparison of, 385 

 feeding value of, carbonaceous, 383 

 for fattening, 382 



legume hay, 382 

 Rye, feeding value of, 279 

 Ryeland breed, 173 



Salt, feeding of, 361 



Scab, eradication of from U. S., 309 



symptoms, 308 



treatment, 308 

 Scab mite, 307 



dips for destruction of, 309 

 Scotch Blackface Highland sheep 



(see Blackface), 168 

 Self-feeders, 367, 372 

 Sex influence in fattening sheep, 371 



