144 GENERAL TABLE OP CONTENTS. 



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Cabbages, fresh food for sheep in winter, 48. In some cases prove inju- 

 rious to sheep, id. What quantity should be given at a feeding 1 , 58. 

 Good to prevent the ill effect of dry fodder, 48. Make e\res increase 

 their milk, 84. Different and best kinds, 48. 



Cabbin, for shepherds, its description and situation, 121. 



Cakes, oil, what are the best for sheep, 51. 



Camphire, its smell, a preservative against moths, 115. 



Carrots, preferable to colewort or cabbages, 49, 84. Good for milk, 84. 



Castration of lambs, at what age, 89, 98. Different methods of doing 

 it, 94. Precautions to be taken, 94, 95. Accidents which some- 

 times happen, 95. 



Chaff of grain, how used, 56, 57. Of peas, beans, vetches, &c. 52. Of 

 hay, hempseed, broomseed, acorns, Sec 50. 



Chalk preserves lambs from scouring, 89. 



Cheese, made from ewes' milk, excellent, 84, 85. 



Choice of rams, 78. Of sheep, 33, 34. 



Cold, how shepherds should treat parts benumbed with it, 9. How 

 sheep guard against it, 23, 24 Experiments which have been made 

 to shew that sheep can resist it, 23 When extreme will destroy 

 lambs, 65. Method of restoring lambs benumbed with cold, 88, 89. 



Cole-wort, fresh food in winter, 48. May prove injurious in some cases, 

 id. Oil cakes made from the seed, and their use, 51. 



Cotick, produced by wet, 38. Of the paunch, 42. 



Collar, for shepherds' dogs, how made, 16. 



Colours, in wool, what are bad, 30. 



Composition of a topical application preferable to any other for the 

 scab, 108. 



Consanguinity is not an obstacle to bettering the breed of sheep, 74. 



Coupling, what is the best time for it, 65. Means of rendering it most 

 effectual, 65. 



Crook, its form and uses, 9, 44. 



Cuckolds, why lambs are so called, 89. 



Culture of land, folding is proper for it, 119. 



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Defile, how a shepherd makes his flock to pass one, 45. 



Re of the morning, more injurious to sheep than rain, or the dew of the 

 evening, 33. Why more so than snow, 63. 



Xtisease, what is done with weak sheep when lodged in the open air, 24. 



ftisgust, and want of appetite, the causes of it, and salt its remedy, 64. 



$rink, injurious when taken too often and in too great quantities, 58. 

 Sheep can remain a long time without it, id. At what time it should 

 be given, id. Experiments made thereon ; the less sheep drink the 

 better, }'</. A drink to be given to ewes, when too weak to yean 



