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PART IX 



Swine Pages 495-559 



Statistics, breeds, types, score cards, buildings for 

 hogs, fences, management of boar, selection and breeding of 

 sow, care of sows, rations for sow and pigs, weaning, food 

 requirements of pigs from bkth to maturity, pasture for 

 hogs roots and other succulents, soiling hogs, grains and 

 grain by-products for hogs, preparation of feeds for swine, 

 tankage, milk, meat meals, etc., for swine, hay and miscel- 

 laneous feeds, wide vs. narrow rations for hogs, general 

 considerations on feeding, market classes and grades of 

 swine. 



PARTX 



Sheep and Goats Pages 561-630 



Sheep, pages 565-621. Systems of sheep fanning, sta- 

 tistics, breeds, judging, weedy and brush lands for, be- 

 ginning sheep farming, breeding ewes, bucks, winter feed- 

 ing of ewes, period of pregnancy, age and productiveness 

 of ewes, care and management of lambs, grain for lambs 

 before and after weaning, fattening sheep and lambs, 

 roughage, silage and roots, grains for sheep, hothouse or 

 winter lambs, sheep ranching in West, sheep for wool alone, 

 classification of wools. 



Goats, pages 621-630. Angora goats, handling, milch 

 breeds, care. 



PART XI 



Poultry Pages 631-677 



Chickens ; breeds, feeding for eggs, grains, mashes, ani- 

 mal feeds, stimulating feeds, grit, salt, early molting, build- 

 ings and yards, characteristics of eggs, packing, preserving 

 marketing, desiccating, factors affecting fertility, hatching 

 eggs, incubators, brooders, classes of chicks, fattening 

 chickens, marketing — Ducks; breeds, hatching, feeding, 

 buildings, marketing — Geese; breeds, mating, fattening, 

 marketing — Turkeys; breeds, selection of breeding stock, 

 nesting, feeding, marketing. Pigeons ; breeds, buildings and 

 fixtures, hatching and feeding, mating — Guineas. 



PART XII 



Other Useful Animals Pages 679-701 



American bison and catalo, deer, elk, antelope, moose, 

 preservation of game, reindeer, caribou, musk ox, camel, 

 carabao, zebu, rabbits, dogs, cats, foxes, skunks, ostriches,' 

 ruffed grouse, quail, prairie chickens, pheasants, peafowl, 

 swans, frogs, fish. 



