INDEX 



Abortion, due to frozen or mouldy 

 feed, 35 

 due to ngrrow doors. 37 

 Age, how to determine, 27 

 Age of ram to use, 9 

 Age of shcop to feed, 14G 

 Alfalfa may cause bloat, 120 

 Alfalfa hay, 36 



for fattening sheep, 

 161 

 American Merino, description of, 

 293 



Barb wire, dangers from broken, 21 

 Barley for fattening, 159 

 Barn for sheep in winter, 37 

 Bean straw for fattening. 161 

 Beet pulp, dried, for fattening, 158 



wet, for fattening, 163 

 Black-faced Highland, description 



of, 287 

 Blanketing show sheep, 192 

 Blindness due to cold wind, 43 

 Bloat in shce]>, 120 



remedy for, 121 

 Block winners, selecting, 214 

 Blue grass hay, 36 

 Border Leicester, 291 

 Bran for fattening, 159 

 Breed, value of, in the flock, 4 

 Breeding the ewes, 11 

 Breeding class, market grades of, 

 300 

 selection for, 181 

 Breeds of sheep. 249 



American Merino, 293 



Black-faced Highland, 287 



Border Leicester, 291 



Cheviot, 267 



Corriedale, 289 



Cotswold, 277 



Dartmoor, 291 



Delaine Merino, 295 



Breeds of sheep — Cont. 



I^evon I-.ong Wool, 291 



Dorset Horn, 265 



Exmoor, 291 



Hampshire, 258 



Ilerdwick, 291 



Kerry Hill. 291 



Leicester, 285 



Lincoln, 281 



Oxford, 255 



Rambouillet, 297 



Romncy Marsh, 286 



Roscommon, 291 



Ryeland, 291 



Shropshire, 251 



South Devon, 291 



Southdown, 261 



Suffolk, 271 



Tunis, 274 



Welsh, 291 



Wensleydale, 291 

 Burdocks and sandburs, 140 



Cabbage for fall and winter feed- 

 ing, 133 

 Caked udders, 58 

 Carcass, prize winning, 218 

 Carrying small sheep and lambs, 



23 

 Castrating lambs, 75 

 Catching the sheep, 21 

 Cheviot, description of, 267 



scale of points of, 270 

 Chilled Iambs, 50 

 Cleanliness, value of, 150 

 Clippers for trimming feet, 102 

 Clover hay, 36 



for fattening sheep, 

 161 

 Clover pasture may cause bloat 



120 

 Colic, or "stretches," 124 

 Coloring show sheep. 192 

 (301) 



