832 INDEX. 



Meat yield: Page. 



By measurement of cattle 85 



Of Austrian cattle 296 



British cattle : 



Ayrshire 219 



Devon 160 



Galloway 211,219 



Hereford 1G2 



Highland 216,219 



Jersey 1C? 



Polled Angus 165,216,219 



Hed Polled 163 



Shorthorn 158 



French cattle 274,296,730 



German cattle -. 467,489 



Hungarian cattle 505 



Italian cattle 296 



Mexican cattle 587 



Pvassian cattle : ; 520 



Swiss cattle ! 290 



Uruguayan cattle 621 



Merritt, E. A., consul-general at London : 



Eeport: Cattle of the United Kingdom 57-78 



(The Devons, 57 ; the Herefords, 58 ; the Shorthorns, 59 ; the Longhorns, CO ; tie 

 Ked Polls and Sussex, 61 ; the Polled Angus and Galloways, 02 ; the High- 

 landers and Ayrshircs, G3 ; Jerseys and Guernseys, 64; "Welsh and Kerry 

 cattle, 65; selection of foreign cattle for the United States, 65; publications 

 concerning British cattle, 66 ; prize vs. ordinary stock ; geological formation of 

 the British Isles, 67 ; the Sandringham herd, 68 ; the Duffryn herd of Short- 

 horns, 69; responses from various quarters, 70-72; the Abbey Farms herd of Short- 

 horns, 72 ; Denchfield stock, 73 ; Cotswold cattle, weights of various breeds, 74; 

 milk and butter yield and prices of various breeds, 75 ; transport to the United 

 States; cattle census of the United Kingdom; exports of British cattle; 

 acknowledgments, 77. Inclosures: The Saudringham herd, 710; cattle in the 

 "Weald of Kent, 711 ; cattle and sheep in Bucks, 711 ; prize breeders of British 

 cattle, 712-715; milk record of 60 British cows, 715 ; position of English dairy 

 farming in 1883, 716-720 ; milking trials at the London dairy show, 720-722 ; 

 central chamber of commerce, 722 ; daily increase in weight of various British 

 breeds, 723 ; French live stock, 724-729 ; French fat and live stock, 729-734 ; 

 British prize cattle, 735-742 ; breeds of sheep in the United Kingdom, 755-760 ; 

 breeds of pigs in the United Kingdom, 760-762 ; Cotswold sheep, 762 ; long- wool 

 Lincolns, 763 ; Southdown sheep : history, breeding, and management, 763-772 ; 

 Southdown sheep and Cambridgeshire farming, 773-777 ; French sheep, 777 ; 

 weights of sheep at Islington, 778-782 ; sheep and mutton in 1883, 782-788 ; 

 sheep portraits, 788 ; Berkshire and Yorkshire pigs, 789 ; black Suffolk pigs, 

 790.) 

 Messkirch cattle: 



Breeding and feeding 40G 



Characteristics of 465,472,473,474 



Milk and meat products 467 



Origin /. 4C5 



Prizewinners, prices of 4C8 



Weight, size, &c 406,472,474 



Meskirch, districtof, climate, soil, &o 464 



Mexico 576-596 



Lower California: 



Cattle and cattle-breeding 59C 



Exports of cattle products 596 



Northern Mexico: 



Breeding methods in 578-580 



(Bulls, oxon, cows, branding, 578; wild cattle, castrating, quality of beef, price of 

 beef, 679 ; age of cattle at maturity, 580.) 



Cattle and products 576,577 



(Origin of breed, uses, milk, butter, c hcese, 576; variations of breed, colors, grasses, 

 and other food, -water, tanks, 577.) 



Census 682 



Climate 581 



