832 INDEX. 



Meat yield: ^"K*- 



By measurement of cattle.-..--.----- -... - °^ 



Of Anetrian cattle '■ 286 



Britisli cattle : 



Ayrshire 219 



Devon 1"" 



Galloway ■ 2". 219 



Hereford l'!2 



Highland 216,219 



Jersey - l**"^ 



PoUed Angus 166,216,219 



BedPoUed 163 



Shorthorn 158 



French cattle 274,296,730 



German cattle i 467,489 



Hungarian cattle 535 



Italian cattle •■--■ 296 



Mexican cattie 587 



BasBian cattle 520 



Swiss cattle 296 



tTrngnayan cattle 621 



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



Eeport: Cattle of the United Kingdom 57-78 



(The Devons, 57 ; the Heroforde, 58 ; the Shorthorns, 59 ; the Longhoms, 60 ; the 

 Bed Polls and Sussex, 61 ; the Polled Angus and Galloways, 62 ; the High- 

 landers and Ay rehires, 63; Jerseys and Guernseys, 64; "Welsh and Kerry 

 cattle, 65 j selection of foreign cattle for the United States, 65 ; puhlications 

 concerning British cattle, 66 ; prize va. 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 ; Denchfleld 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 ; 

 acknowledgnjents, 77. Incloifures : The Sandringham herd, 710 ; cattle in the 

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

 cattle, 71 2-715 ; mil k 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 Hve stock, 724r-729 ; French fat and live stock, 729-734 ; 

 British piize 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 466 



Characteristics of 465,472,473,474 



Milk and meat products 467 



Origin 465 



Prizewinners, prices of 468 



Weight, size, &o 486,472,474 



Meskirch, districtof, climate, soil, &c 464 



Mexico 576-596 



Lower California: 



Cattle and cattle-breeding 596 



Fxportsof cattle products 596 



If orthem Mexico : 



Breeding methods in -. 578-580 



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

 beef, 579 ; age of catUo at maturity, 580.) 



Cattle and products 576,577 



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

 and othe;- food, water, tanks, 577.) 



Census 582 



Climate ...,., 



