Index 



301 



Lambs, still-born, 189. 



weak, 193. 



weaning, 209. 

 Lands for sheep, 3, 12, 13, 4. 

 Leicester sheep, 51, 54. 

 Lice, 296. 



Lincoln sheep, 67, 73. 

 Line-breeding, 153. 



principles of, 155. 

 Lowland breeds, differences in, 73. 

 Lungworms, 284. 



Maggots, 296. 



Management, essentials in, 257. 

 Market grades of wool, 223. 

 Marketing early lambs, 235. 

 Markets for early lambs, 238. 

 Mating, time of, 167. 

 Medicinal preventives, 282. 

 Medicines, administration of, 298. 

 Merinos, 20, 25, 34, 42. 



classes of, 44. 



French, 46. 



Oats for fattening, 247. 

 Ova produced by ewes, 171. 

 Oxford Down, 117. 



Parasites, 



external, 291. 



internal, 278. 

 Pastures, 



changing, 205. 



shade in, 204. 

 Pasturing sheep with horses, 263. 

 Peas for fattening, 248. 

 Pedigrees, study of, 150. 

 Pink eye, 294. 

 Pregnancy, duration of, 183. 

 Preparation of show sheep, 262. 

 Preventives, medicinal, 282. 

 Pulled wool, 228. 

 Pulling wool, 297. 



Racks for feeding, 16. 

 Rambouillets, 46, 47. 

 Rams, 



judging breeding qualities, 148. . 



number of ewes for, 173. 



rations for, 181. 



Rams, selection of, 147. 



testing, 151. 

 Ranching, 2. 

 Rape, 6, 207, 253, 254. 

 Roughages for sheep, 5. 



for ewes, 178. 



for fattening, 249, 250, 251. 



Saxony Merinos, 27. 

 Scab, 295. 

 Scours, 286. 

 Shade, 12, 204. 



in pastures, 204, 254. 

 Shearing, 



before fattening, 255. 



in October, 256. 



manner of, 213. 



stubble, 271. 



time for, 212. 

 Shepherds, 6. 



Shipping early lambs, 237. 

 Show sheep, 



after treatment, 277. 



feeding, 264, 265. 



fleeces of, 271. 



importance of breeding, 263. 



matching, 263. 



time of birth, 263. 



trimming, 271, 273. 

 Shrinkage of wool, 223. 

 Shropshire sheep, 86. 

 Sflage, for ewes, 179, 180, 252. 

 Slinking, 288. 

 SoU, influence on wool, 39. 

 Sore eyes, 293. 

 Sorghum hay, 252. 

 Southdown, 74. 

 Soy beans, for fattening, 249. 

 Spring management of flock, 183. 

 Stomach worms, 283. 

 Stretches, 287. 

 Stubble shearing, 271. 

 Sturdy, 278. 

 Suffolk, 126. 

 Sugar beets, 180. 



Summer management of flock, 

 202. 



Tank for dipping, 217. 

 Tapeworms, 280. 



