GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS. 149 



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Navel string, when the shepherd should break it, 81. 

 JVut, or walnut cakes, given to sheep, 51. 



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Oak nuts or acorns, serve for feeding- sheep, 50, 51. Also, its leaves 

 and branches, 52, 53. 



Oats, excellent for sheep in winter, 56. Prevent sheep losing 1 their 

 flesh in winter, 59. Good to increase milk in ewes, 83. 84. Good, 

 for lambs when ground, 90. The best grain for stall feeding 1 lambs. 



Oat-chaff', good for sheep, 52. 



Oat strata, the best of any other, 56. 



Oil cakes, made from turnips, hemp-seed, &e. are good for sheep, 100. 



Oil of turpentine, its use in curing the scab, 108, 131. 



Ointment, for the scab, shepherds should always have it, 10. The man- 

 ner of making it, 108. Proper for sheep after shearing, 108. Best 

 for the scab, 131. The manner of using it, and the circumstances 

 when it is necessary, 132. 



Otiions, should be given to ewes and rams not sufficiently ardent, 78. 



Parsnips, preferable to cabbages for feeding sheep, 42. Increase milk 

 in ewes, 84. 



Pasturing, rules to be followed concerning it, 36, On what depends 

 the goodness, 47. Can it be had in winter after frost ? id. How 

 can the want of grass be supplied ? 47, 48, Sec. A change of it good 

 for nursing ewes, 84. Wet pastures good to fatten sheep intended 

 to be killed, 99, 100. Method of obtaining the greatest profit from 

 pasturing in the fatting of sheep, 97, 98. 



Peas, may be given to sheep, 51. Should be made into bundles, and 

 the straw and leaves given to them, 52. Boiled, increase milk in 

 ewes, 80. Blue, very good for feeding lambs, 90, Their use in 

 stall-feeding, 101. Pods of peas, beans, &c. may be giren them, 

 53, 56. 



Pine treet, sheep will eat the bark, 53. 



Poplar, its leaves good for sheep, 56. The bark also given them, id. 



Plants, do sheep eat such as are hurtful to them ? 42 What are the 

 plants, which, although nutricious, may prove hurtful to sheep, id. 

 How this disease is prevented, 43,44. 



Poppy, may do injury to sheep, 42. 



Potatoes, may be given sheep in winter, 49. 



Precautions, to be taken against wolves, 17. In coupling of ewes, 9& 

 Before and after castration, 94. After shearing, 108. 



Preservatives, pretended against moths, 114, 115, 116. 



Proportions of body, for a good ram, and for a good ewe, 33. 



