INDEX 



Acreage of the forest reserves, 14. 



Advertising, pure-bred cattle, 117; 

 pure-bred horses, 342 ; pure-bred 

 swine, 43 1 ; stallions in service, 

 323. 



Age, determination of, in sheep, 128 ; 

 of breeding rams, 178 ; of cattle, 

 definitions of, 44. 



Alfalfa, acreage of, in the West, 24 ; 

 distribution of, 24 ; for boars, 

 410 ; for brood sows, 410 ; for 

 calves, 61 ; for cows and calves, 

 60 ; cut (see Cut hay) ; for fat- 

 tening cattle, 52 ; for fattening 

 horses, 348 ; for fattening lambs, 

 156 ; for fattening pigs, 410 ; for 

 feeding brood mares, 274 ; for 

 growing horses, 291 ; for wean- 

 ling pigs, 405 ; for wintering cattle, 

 42 ; for wintering foals, 297 ; for 

 work horses, 251, 258, 260; for 

 range horses, 330. 



Alfalfa meal for fattening cattle, 

 82, 87. 



Alfalfa pasture, for fattening swine, 

 410 ; for pigs, 405. 



Alkali licks for sheep, 147. 



Altitude of the West, 4. 



Angus cattle for the ranges, 45. 



Appropriated lands, 10. 



Area of Western states, 8. 



Artificial impregnation, in hinney 

 .production, 365 ; methods of, 

 280. 



Auction sales, for sheep, 193 ; of 

 pure-bred cattle. 111. 



Australia, a wool-producing coun- 

 try, 226. 



Australian shearing shed, 234. 



Azoturia, prevention of, in city 

 work horses, 261 ; prevention of. 



in fattening horses, 348 ; pre- 

 vention of, in work horses, 253 ; 

 symptoms, causes, and treat- 

 ment, 269. 



Baby mutton, 123. 



Bacon, definition, 445. 



Bags for wool, 232. 



Balanced ration, definition, 434. 



Barley, for city work horses, 261 ; 

 for fattening cattle, 80, 89 ; for 

 fattening lambs, 156 ; for fat- 

 tening swine, 409 ; for growing 

 horses, 292 ; for idle horses, 255 ; 

 for sheep, 212 ; for work horses, 

 251. 



Barley hay for work horses, 257. 



Barns (see Shelter). 



Barrenness in brood mares, 279. 



Barrow, definition, 445; meat su- 

 perior, 399. 



Beef cattle (see Cattle). 



Beet pulp, for fattening cattle, 90 ; 

 for fattening lambs, 157. 



Berkshire breed of swine, 429 ; defi- 

 nition, 445. 



Binders, definition, 440. 



Blackface, definitiop, 440. 



Black teeth, definition, 445. 



Black wool, 232. 



Blanketing horses, 265. 



Blemish, definition, 442. 



Bloat in sheep, 218. 



Block hogs, definition, 445. 



Boar, definition, 445; feeding, 391; 

 handling the, 394; number of 

 services per day, 393 ; selection 

 and management, Chap. XXVIII, 

 389 ; services per sow, 393. 



Boar's tusks, cutting, 425. 



Bogus pedigrees for horses, 338. 



447 



