GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS. 147 



Health of sheep, signs of bad, 33. Of good, 35. 



Heat, more dangerous for sheep than extreme cold, 38. The dangerous 



practice of sheep to avoid the heat of the sun, 39. A disease, and 



bleeding its remedy, 39. 

 Height of sheep, how measured, 29. What preferred, 34. What should 



be done to increase it, 68. 

 Hemp-seed, given to sheep in winter ; its effects, 50. Cakes made of it, 



and their bad effect, 51. 



Herbage, what is best for the fatting of sheep ? 90. Of trees, good, 100. 

 Horns, sheep without them preferred, 66, 67. 

 Horse-Chestmits, sheep may be fed with them, 56. 

 Hove, a disease of sheep ; plants which occasion it, 55, 99. 

 Hunger, most of the lambs which die are destroyed by it, 87, 88. 

 Hurdles, the manner of making them, 116. Of erecting them, 117. 



Inclosure, the height a fold should have, 25. 



Insects, which spoil sheep's wool, 112. The method of guarding in 



some measure against them, 114, 115. 

 Instruments of Musick, proper for a shepherd, 46. Sheep pleased with 



musick, id. 



Instruments, surgical, description, 10. 

 Ivy, ground, increases milk in ewes, 84. 



Jarre, what it is, 32. 



Journeying of sheep, at what age and season is it proper ? 76. How 

 managed when journeying, id. 



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Kennel, its description and use, 122, 123. 

 Knife, a shepherd's, its form, 10. 



Lamb, what should be its situation in the belly of the mother ? 80. 

 What are the bad situations and the means of remedying them ? 81. 

 What is to be done to make a ewe nurse its lamb ? 82 How many 

 lambs may a ewe cast at a birth ? 83. What is to be done with a 

 lamb just dropt ? 85. When the ewe has not sufficient milk ? 83, 86. 

 How can the milk of a ewe be increased ? 84. What are the means 

 of making a evve own a lamb not her own ? 86. How a lamb may 

 be fed by hand, 86, 87. What a shepherd should do when a lamb is 

 dull, feeble, and thin, 87 Proof that most lambs die of hun- 

 ger, 87, 8. Method of restoring lambs benumbed with cold, 88, 89. 

 What is to be done with those, which come late, 89. How to fat 



