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Index 



XI, 154; feeding period, 155; 

 feed racks for fattening, 159 ; 

 feeds and rations for, 156 ; for 

 the feed lot, 154; grain ration 

 for, 190; hay for, 156; hot 

 house, 123 ; marketing of pure- 

 bred, 193 ; marketing of spring 

 lambs, 192 ; market weights of 

 winter fed, 163 ; market weights 

 of spring, 193 ; marking of, on 

 range, 140; "Pewees and Pea- 

 nuts," 155; spring, 122; wean- 

 ing of farm lambs, 192 ; weaning 

 of range lambs, 147. 



Lands, alfalfa, 24 ; classification 

 of Western, 8 ; cropped, maps, 

 7 ; cultivated in the West, 23 ; 

 deeded, 10 ; Indian, 10 ; public, 

 disposition of, 19 ; public, method 

 of obtaining, 11 ; reserved for 

 power sites, 10 ; unappropriated, 

 area of, 8 ; unappropriated, use 

 of, 10 ; wheat, 24. 



Laws governing stallions, 314. 



Leading sheep, 223. 



Leasing the ranges, 22. 



Legging out, definition, 441. 



Leicester blood in Corriedale, 167. 



Lifting and carrying sheep, 223. 



Lincoln blood in the Corriedale, 167. 



Line breeding, definition, 438. 



Line riding, 41, 55. 



Linseed oil meal (see Oil meal). 



Litters, two per year, 392. 



Live-stock, breeding, 28 ; distribu- 

 tion of, 25 ; markets, 26. 



Location for pure-bred cattle, 110; 

 for swine, 370 ; influence in feed- 

 ing horses, 259 ; of windows, 377. 



Long wool, definition, 441. 



Losses of cattle, 48. 



Loss of lambs from castration and 

 docking, 187. 



Lots {see Exercise). 



Luster, definition, 441. 



Machine shearing, 191 ; advantages 



of, 141. 

 Maintenance requirement of swine, 



413. 



Malting feed for swine, 417. 



Manes, braiding and trimming of, 

 for the show ring, 351. 



Manure, cistern for swine, 383; 

 swine, handling, 383. 



Mare, definition, 444. 



Margin in fattening cattle, 72. 



Marketing cattle, cost of, 86 ; fat 

 cattle, 83 ; finished horses, 360 ; 

 mutton stock, 147 ; pure-bred 

 cattle, 115; pure-bred horses, 

 343 ; pure-bred sheep, 148, 193 ; 

 pure-bred swine, 430; range 

 horses, 330 ; spring lambs, 192. 



Market requirement of jacks and 

 jennets, 364 ; weights of lambs, 

 163, 193. 



Markets in the West, 26. 



Marking cattle, 103 ; lambs on the 

 range, 140 ; pigs, 425. 



Melons for swine, 375. 



Merino blood, in the Corriedale, 

 167 ; on the range, 166. 



Merino sheep on the range, 125, 

 127 ; in cross-breeding, 168. 



Middle wool, definition, 441. 



Middlings, and shorts for swine, 

 411; for fattening cattle, 90; 

 for weanling pigs, 423 ; value for 

 weanling pigs, 403. 



Milk fever in swine, 426. 



Milo maize for fattening swine, 409. 



Mongrel, definition, 438. 



Moon blindness, definition, 444. 



Mules, advantages and disad- 

 vantages of, 362 ; definition of, 

 361 , 444 ; exports and imports 

 of, 246; feeding of, 363; jacks 

 and jennets, discussion of. Chap. 

 XXV, 361 ; illustration of com- 

 bine team, 353. 



Mutton, baby mutton, 123 ; cross- 

 breeding, 166; lambs in feed 

 lot, 147 ; producers of the West, 

 Chap. IX, 141 ; stock, market- 

 ing of, 147. 



Navel disease, 286. 

 New Zealand, the home of the Cor- 

 riedale, 168. 



