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tion of age, 223; examination of 
fleece, 229; exercise, 237; fattening, 
238; fine-wool type, 198; feeding, 
232; feed-racks, 255; food require- 
ments, 233; general appearance, 
223; habits of, 349; Hampshire, 
208 ; hot-house lambs, 237 ; improve- 
ments, 246; judging, 222; Leicester, 
214; Lincoln, 217; market classes, 
230; method of. catching, 222; 
method of holding, 222; mutton 
type, 198; mutton, 204; Oxford 
Down, 209; pasture, 234; points of, 
196; quality, 225; Rambouillet, 
203; ration, 373; sample rations, 
243; score-card, 223; shade for, 
236; shearing, 250; Shropshire, 206; 
Southdown, 204; sown pasture, 236; 
Suffolk Down, 210; summer feed- 
ing, 234; tying wool, 251; uniform- 
ity, 226, 247; vigor, 226; weight 
and condition, 225; winter feeding, 
237. 
Sheepshead Bay course, 8. 
Shetland pony, 30. 
Shields, 15. 
Shire draft horse, 25; compared with 
Percheron, 25. 
Shoat, see Swine. 
Shoeing the horse, 88. 
Shorthorn beef cattle, 119; compared 
with Aberdeen Angus, 124; with 
Galloway, 126; with Hereford, 122; 
description, 121; families, 120. 
Shoulder, sweeney, 39. 
.Shropshire mutton sheep, 206; com- 
pared with Southdown, 207. 
Siamese hog, 262. 
Side-bone, 39. 
Silage, 151; measuring, 362. 
Silkies fowls, 316. 
Silo, 170; filling, 171. 
Silver, L. B., 266. 
Skimmed milk, test, 366; for calf, 153; 
for swine, 289. 
Small Black swine, 267. 
Small White swine, 267. 
Small Yorkshire lard-hog, 267. 
Soiling, 149; for swine, 287. 
Sophie 19th of Hood Farm, 110. 
Index 
Soundness, in horse breeding, 84; in 
horses, 351. 
Southdown mutton sheep, 204; com- 
pared with Cheviot, 213, with Dor. 
set-Horned, 212, with Hampshire, 
209, with Oxford Down, 210, with 
Shropshire, 207, with Suffolk Down, 
211; description, 206; fleece, 201. 
Sow, see Swine. 
Spanish fowl, 308. 
Spanish hog, 263. 
Spavin, 40. 
Splint, 39. 
Spotswood Daisy Pearl, 115. 
Spring lambs, 239. 
Springers and milkers, 142. 
Squashes for swine, 288. 
Stables for sanitary milk, 157. 
Stallion, see Horses. 
Standardbred horse, 11; compared with 
Thoroughbred, 12; families, 12. 
Steer, 141; see Beef cattle. 
St. Leger course, 6; track record, 8. 
Stockers and feeders, 142. 
St. Mawes Poppy, 110. 
Succulent feeds for dairy cattle, 151. 
Suffolk Down mutton sheep, 210; com- 
pared with Southdown, 211. 
Suffolk draft horse, 27; compared with 
Percheron, 28. 
Suffolk lard-hog, 268. 
Sultan fowl, 316. 
Sussex cattle, 128. 
Sweeney collar, 100. 
Swine, 257; bacon-hog, 259; breeding, 
296; breeds of, 259; care, 295: 
Cheshire, 269; Chester White, 265; 
description of Poland China, 261; 
diseases, 301; dipping, 298; Duroc- 
Jersey, 263; fattening, 289; feed- 
ing, 284; food for, 285; Hampshire, 
266; heavy, 282; hog cholera, 302; 
hog lot, 301; hog-wallows, 301; 
house, 299; improvement, 295; 
judging, 275; lard-hog, 259; Large 
Yorkshire, 271; market classes, 281; 
Middle Yorkshire, 270; pasture for, 
287; points of, 258; Poland China, 
260; quality, 277; quarantine lot, 
302; sample rations, 292; score- 
