448 



INDEX. 



Lyman, J. H., his acconnt of Mexican 

 sheep dogs, 401-404. 



M 



Madness— (see Babies.) 

 Maggots on sheep, how destroyed, 189, 190. 

 Management of sheep in spring, 139. 

 catching and handling, 139-141. 

 tagging, 141, 142. 



hurs in pastures to he eradicated, 142, 

 lambing, 142, 143. 

 proper place for lambing, 143, 144. 

 mechanical assistance in lambing, 144, 



145. 

 inverted ■womb, how treated, 145, 146. 

 management of new-born lambs, 146. 

 artificial feeding of lambs, 146-148. 

 chilled lambs, 148, 149. 

 constipation or costiveness of lambs, 



how treated, 149, 150. 

 cutting teeth, 150. 

 pinning, how treated, 151. 

 diarrhea or purging of lambs, how 



treated, 151. 

 congenital goitre, or swelled neck, 153- 



154. 

 imperfectly developed lambs, 154, 155. 

 rheumatism in lambs.. 155. 156. 

 treatment of ewe after lambing, 156, 



157. 

 closed teats. 157. 

 inflamed udder, 157. 

 drying off ewes, 158. 

 disowning lambs, 158, 159. 

 pens, 159. 



foster lambs, 159, 160. 

 docking lambs, 160, 161. 

 castration of lambs, 161. 

 Management of sheep in summer, 163-197. 

 modes of washing sheep, 163, 164. 

 utility of washing sheep, 163, 168. 

 shortening the hoof, 168, 169. 

 cut of toe-nippers, 169. 

 time between washing and shearing, 



170. 

 shearing, 170-172. 

 stubble shearing and trimming, 172. 

 shearing lambs and shearing sheep 



semi-annually, 172. 

 doing up wool, 173-175. 

 cut of folding table, 173. 

 cut of fleece ready for press, 173. 

 cut of fleece in press, 174. 

 cut of wool-^ress, 174. 

 frauds in doing up wool, 175. 

 storing wool, 176. 

 place for selling wool, 177. 

 wool depots and commission stores, 



177. 

 sacking wool, 177. 

 drafting and selection of flock, 179. 

 registration, 180. 

 marking and numbering, 182-186. 

 Von Thaer's mode of, 183. 

 German mode of tattooing, 183. 

 a third mode of marking, 184. 

 a fourth mode of marking, 185. 

 cut of instruments for tattooing, 184. 



Management of sheep in summer, 163-197. 

 cut of ears tattooed. 184. 

 cut of copper ear marks, 185. 

 storms after shearing, 186. 

 sun-scald, 186. 



ticks, how destroyed, 187-189. 

 cut of dipping box, 187. 

 shortening horns, etc., 189. 

 maggots, 189, 190. 

 confining rams, 190, 191. 

 training rams, 191. 

 fences, care of, 192. 

 salt necessary for sheep, 192. 

 tar, sulphur, alum, etc., for -sheep, 1^3. 

 water in pastures, 194. 

 shade in pastures, 195. 

 housing; sheep in summer, 195. 

 pampering sheep, 196, 197. 

 Management of sheep in the fall, 197-210. 

 weaning and fall feeding lambs, 197- 



201. 

 sheltering lambs in fall, 201. 

 fall feeding and sheltering breeding 



ewes, 202-205. 

 selecting ewes for the ram, ^5, 206. 

 coupling, 306, 207. 

 period of gestation, 207. 

 management of rams during coupling, 



307^ 209. 

 dividing flocks for winter, 309, 210. 

 Management of sheep in winter, 210-347. 

 winter shelter, 211. 

 temporary sheds, 311. 

 cut of shed of poles, 211. 

 clumps of trees and stalls, 312. 

 hay barns with open sheds, 212. 

 sheep barns or stables, 214, 219. 

 cut of sheep barn and yards, 317- 

 cut of a sheep establishment, 218. 

 cleaning out stables in wintei- 219. 

 yards, how arranged, etc., 320. 

 littering yards, 220. 

 confining sheep in yards and to dry 



feed, 221-228. 

 hay racks, 229. 

 cut of slatted box rack, 229. 

 cut of wall rack and trough, 230. 

 cut of end view of wall rack and 



trough, 231. 

 water for sheep in winter, 3.S2. 

 amount of food consumed by sheep in 



winter, 233. 

 value of different fodders, 233, 243. 

 nutritive equivalents, 234. 

 table of nutritive equivalents, 235. 

 proportion in which dift'erent nutri- 

 ment increases live weight, wool 



and tallow, 336, 238. 

 cost and economy of the different 



kinds of, 238, et seg, 

 experiments in feeding, 239-242. 

 mixed feeds, 243-345. 

 fattening sheep in winter, 245, 246. 

 regularity in feeding, 346, 247. 

 Salt in winter, 247. 

 Management of Sheep on Prairies— (see 



Prairie Sheep Husbandry.) 

 Markets, influence of, in determining the 



selection of a breed, 82. 



