INDEX. 331 



Eambouillet, ability ot to conceive early, 27. 



merits of, 37. 



origin of, 26. 



popularity ot, 29. 



management of, 30. 

 Ranching in Montana, Wyoming and the Dakotas, 193 

 Range-bred rams, advantages of, 199. 

 Range ewes, vigor of, 200. 



lambs, vigor of, 200. 

 Rape tor lamb pasture, 158, 239. 

 Ration for heavy milk flow, 98. 

 Recording sheep in England, 178. 

 Regularity in feeding lambs, 259. 

 Relative gains of lambs and wethers, 273. 



losses from open yards and barn feeding. 275. 

 Restocking Kastern farms, 15. 

 Roots for milking ewes, 100. 

 Roundworms, coal-tar creosote for, 296. 



gasoline for, 298. 

 Rye for pasture, 139. 

 Salt, feeding of, 121. 

 Salting the lambs, 240. 

 Scab insect, nature of, 6t. 



prevention and cure ot, 65. 

 Selection of healthy lambs, 213. 

 Self-feeders, use of, 262. 



for corn for wethers, 271. 

 Self-feeding corn crib, 273. 

 Selling out to get rid of diseases, 303. 

 Separation of ewes from lambs by corral, 129. 

 Shade, ai-tilicial best, 122. 



necessity of, 121. 

 Shearing early, advaniages of, 166. 



general method. of, i67. 



machines, use of in summer, 173. 



machine, merits of, 170. 



on the range, 204. 



time, 256. 

 Sheep farming, ups and downs ot. 209. 

 Sheep feeding, management in feed yards, 270. 

 Sheep industry, advancement ot, 211. 

 Shelter for lamb-teeding in corn-belt, 242. 

 Shepherd's crook, 87. 

 Shropshires, characteristics of, 39. 



origin of, 38. 

 Silage for ewes in milk, 99. 

 Silage tor fattening lambs, 257. 

 Silo, floors of, 258. 

 Southdowns, characteristics of, 36. 



manajiement of in Sussex, 35. 

 Sore eyes in lambs. 101. 

 Sor(! feet, cause ot. 251. 



treatment of, 251. 

 Sore mouths, treatment ot, 102. 

 Sown pastures free from parasites, 139. 

 Soy beans for young lambs. 111 . 

 Space recLUired in barn (or breeding ewes, 86. 

 Starting the lamb to eat, 110. 

 Stock yards sheep, types of, 214. 

 Stomach worms, Strongylus contortus, Idd, 293. 



regions exempt from, 294. 

 Tapeworm in dogs, prescription for, 380. 



intrequenfv of in sheep, 291. 



