304 Sheep Management, Breeds and Judging. 



Lincoln, description of, 281 



scale of points of, 283 

 Linseed meal for fattening, 160 

 Lips, opening the, to determine 

 age, 30 



Maggots, 125 



cause, 128 

 prevention, 128 

 treatment, 129 

 Mangels dangerous to rams and 



wethers, 133 

 Manure, value of sheep, 2 

 Market grades of sheep, 298 

 breeding classes, 300 

 feeder classes, 299 

 hot-house lambs, 300 

 mutton sheep, 299 

 Market, lime to, 164 

 Marking lambs, 72 

 Marsh hay, poor for sheep, 36, 161 

 Medicine, administering, 113 

 Medicines helpful to the flock- 

 master, 123 

 Milk, cow's, for young lambs, 69 

 Mutton sheep, market grades of, 

 299 

 scale of points of, 

 226 



Narrow door, danger from, 37 



Oat and pea-hay, 36 



Oat hay, 36 



Oats for fattening, 158 



Oat straw, 36 



Overheating, 21 1 



Oxford, description of, 255 



scale of poihts of, 257 



Parasites, prevention and treat- 

 ment of, 105 

 Patience, importance of, 149 

 Pea-cannery refuse, 161 

 Peas, grazing on field, 161 

 Pea straw for fattening, 161 

 Pens, lambing, 39 



Percentage of lambs, increasing, 



136 

 Period of gestation, 43 

 Pinchers for docking, 80 

 Points of good ewes, 17 

 Points of a good ram, 7 

 Punctuality, value of, 151 

 Pure-bred ram, importance of, 4 



Raising lambs, 61 

 Ram, age to use, 9 

 care in fall, 11 

 care in summer, 10 

 care in winter, 16 

 feed for, 16 

 field, for breeding, 9 

 judging ram classes, 228 

 number of ewes to one, 15 

 painting, on brisket, 13 

 points of a good, 7 

 saving vitality of. 13 

 scrub, unprofitable, 4 

 selection of, 5 

 show, for breeding. 9 

 sugar beets and mangels 



dangerous for, 17, 133 

 turning with ewes, 11 

 using a lamb, 9 

 value of pure-bred. 4, 7 

 Rambouillet, description of, 297 

 Rape, value of, 131 

 Reducing show sheep, 195 

 Reviving almost lifeless lambs, 49 



chilled lambs, 50 

 Romncy Marsh, description of, 286 

 Roots, danger from frozen, 36 

 for ewes, 34 

 for fall and winter feeding, 



133 

 for fattening, 161 

 Roscommon, 291 

 Roughage for winter. 36 

 Roughages for fattening, 160 

 Rutabagas for fall and winter 



feeding. 133 

 Ryeland, 291 



Salt, necessity of, 139 

 Sandburs and burdocks, 140 



