X CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER XXI. 



PEAIEIE SHEEP HUSBANDET. 



Prairie Management in Summer— Lambing— Folds and Dogs — 

 Stables — Herding — Washing — Shearing — Storing^ and SeU- 

 ingWool — Ticks — Prairie Diseases — Salt —Weaning Lambs 

 — Prairie Management in Winter — Winter Feed — Sheds or 

 Stables— Water— Location of Sheep Establishment, 248 



CHAPTER XXn. 



ANATOMY AND DISEASES OF SHEEP. — THE HEAD. 



Comparatively small Number of American Sheep Diseases— Low 

 Type of American Sheep Diseases — Anatomy of the Sheep 

 —The Skeleton— The Skull— The Horns and their Diseases 

 —The Teeth— Swelled Head — Sore Face— Swelled Lips— 

 Inflammation of the Eye, 261 



CHAPTER XXHL 

 ANATOMT AND DISEASES OF THE SHBBP'S HEAD, CONTINUED. 



Section of Sheep's Head — Grub in the Head — Hydatid on the 

 Brain — Water on the Brain — Apoplexy — Inflammation of 

 the Brain — Tetanus or Locked -Jaw — Epilepsy — Palsy — 

 Rabies 273 



CHAPTER XXIV. 



DISEASES OF THE DIGESTIVE OEOANS. 



Blain — Obstructions of the Gullet — The Stomachs and their 

 Diseases — ^External and Internal Appearance of the Stomachs 

 — The Mode of Administering Medicines into the Stomachs 

 of Sheep — Hoove — Poisons — Inflammation of the Rumen, 

 or Paunch — Obstruction of the Maniplus — Acute Dropsy, 

 or Red- Water — Enteritis, or Inflammation of the Coats of 

 the Intestines — Diarrhea — Dysentery — Constipation — Colic, 

 or Stretches — Braxy, or Inflammation of the Bowels — Worms 

 —Pining, 291 



CHAPTER XXV. 

 MBBASBS OF THE CIECULATOET AND THE EESPIEATOET 



SYSTEMS. 



The Pulse — Place and Mode of Bleeding — Fever — Inflammatory 

 Fever — Malignant Inflammatory Fever — Typhus Fever — 

 Catarrh — ^Mabgnant Epizootic Catarrh — ^Pneumonia, or Inflam- 

 mation of the Lungs — Pleuritia or Pleurisy — Consumption,. . 314 



CHAPTER XXVL 



DISEASES OF THE GBNEEATIVB AND UEINAEY OEGANS. 



Abortion — Inversion of the Womb — Garget — Parturient, or 

 Puerperal Fever — Cystitis, or Inflammation of the Bladder,. . 329 



