INDEX 



Abortion, 288. 



Administration of medicines, 298. 



Advantages in sheep-farming, 6. 



After-birth, removal of, 189. 



Age, how to tell, 165. 



AMalfa, 209, 250. 



Altitude, 



classification based on, 29, 32. 



influence of, 30, 35. 

 American sheep-breeding, 40, 42. 

 Ancestry of present-day sheep, 23. 

 Aphtha, 297. 

 Autumn management of flock, 163. 



Bakewell, Robert, 50, 52, 57, 153. 

 Barley for fattening, 249. 

 Barns, cost of, 15. 

 Black-faced Highland, 134. 

 Black Top Spanish Merino, 44. 

 Border Leicester, 57. 

 Bran for fattening, 248. 

 Breeding, importance of, for show 



sheep, 263. 

 Breeding ewes, 



age of, 164. 



grain for, 180. 



in early winter, 177. 



roughages for, 179. 

 Breeds, 



adaptability of, 33, 138. 



British breeds, 49. 



classification of, 28, 29, 32. 



formation of, 28, 32. 

 Breed t3T)e, 139. 

 Buildings, 



for early lambs, 238. 



for sheep farms, 13. 

 Butchering early lambs, 236. 

 Bujring sheep to fatten, 259. 



Caked udder, 290. 



Calculi, 292. 



Carding the fleece, 273. 



Casting of withers, 289. 



Castration, 199. 



Catarrh, 286. 



Cheviot, 131. 



Cholera in Iambs, 291. 



Classification of breeds, 28, 29, 32. 



Climate, influence on wool, 37. 



Clover hay, 250, 251. 



Colic, 288. 



Combining wool and mutton, 3, 12. 



Conditions for sheep, 1. 



Constipation, 287. 



Com fodder, 180. 



Com for fattening, 247. 



Corn stover, 250, 251. 



Cotswold, 61, 73. 



Cotted wool, 298. 



Cross-breeding, 160. 



Delaine Merinos, 44. 

 Dickinson Merinos, 44. 

 Dipping, 216, 295, 296. 



tank, 216. 

 Diseases, 278. 

 Docking, 201. 

 Dorset, 127, 230. 

 Dysentery, 286. 



white dysentery in lambs, 290. 



Early Iamb-raising, 

 buildings for, 238. 

 butchering, 236. 

 feeding early lambs, 234. 

 management at mating, 231. 

 marketing, 235. 

 markets, 238. 



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