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- Index 



Steaming feeds for swine, 417. 



Stock cars, capacity of, 84. 



Stockers, definition, 440. 



Stock, feed for horses, 260 ; grazing 

 on homesteads, 22 ; shows and 

 fairs, 116. 



Straw, for idle horses, 254 ; for 

 work horses, 259. 



Stringy, definition, 444. 



Stubble fields for swine, 373, 375. 



Stump sucker, definition, 445. 



Succulence for sheep, 214. 



Sugar-beet pulp for fattening cattle, 

 90. 



Summer and winter ranges, 1 1 ; 

 for cattle, 41, 60; for sheep, 125, 

 144. 



Supplemental feeds for swine, 410. 



Sus Indica, definition, 446. 



Sus Scrofa, definition, 446. 



Sweeney, definition, 445. 



Swine, afterbirth, passing of, 397 ; 

 beginner's problems. Chap. 

 XXVI, 369; breeding, 393; 

 breeding crate, 393 ; breeding 

 herd. Chap. XXVIII, 389; 

 breeds of, 429 ; bronchial trouble 

 in, 423 ; brood sows, treatment 

 of, 394; by-products for, 369; 

 castration knife for, 387 ; cas- 

 tration of, 399 ; chute for loading, 

 388 ; clover aftermath for, 375 ; 

 condition for growing, 369 ; creeps 

 for little pigs, 400 ; dipping vats 

 for, 385; distribution of, 26; 

 dressing percentage, 407 ; equip- 

 ment for. Chap. XXVII, 376; 

 fall pigs, 393 ; fattening for 

 market. Chap. XXIX, 407 ; feed 

 grinder for, 378 ; feeding, Chap. 

 XXX, 415; feeding standards, 

 409 ; feed used for other stock, 

 374; fences for, 382; fitting 

 for show and sale, 432 ; floors for, 

 383 ; following cattle on corn, 

 70 ; gestation period, 392 ; grain, 

 relative values for weanling pigs, 

 404 ; grazed on forest reserves, 

 14 ; holder, 387 ; manure cistern 

 for, 383 ; market conditions, 



372 ; market demands, 408 ; 

 market fluctuations, 392 ; melons 

 for, 375; middlings for, 403; 

 milk fever in, 426 ; number for 

 the farm, 369 ; nutritive require- 

 ments for fattening, 410; nu- 

 tritive requirements for weanling, 

 403 ; nutritive requirements of, 

 for brood sows, 394, 398 ; packers' 

 demand, 372 ; paralysis in, 422 

 parturition in, 395 ; pastures for, 

 375, 403, 405; periods of heat, 

 393 ; price in relation to supply 

 373 ; prices, fluctuation in, 373 

 proportion to dairy cows, 375 

 pumpkins for, 375 ; pure-bred, 

 marketing, 430 ; pure-bred, start- 

 ing with, 430 ; relation to beef 

 cattle, 372 ; relation to sheep, 

 372 ; ringing, 406 ; rings for, 

 387; rubbing posts for, 386; 

 shattered grain for, 375; shelter 

 tor, 376 ; skim milk for, 371, 375 ; 

 stubble fields for, 375 ; suitability 

 to various environments, 33 ; 

 supplemental feeds for, 410; 

 supply in relation to price, 372; 

 table refuse for, 375; trimming 

 feet, 424 ; troughs for, 381 ; two 

 litters per year, 392 ; wallowing 

 vats for, 386 ; water supply for, 

 380 ; weaning pigs, 400 ; wean- 

 ling pigs, pasture for, 403, 404; 

 the West for growing, 369 ; 

 wounds and ulcers, 419. 



Table refuse for swine, 375. 



Tagging ewes, 179. 



Tails, braiding and tying for show 

 ring, 353. 



Tankage, definition, 446 ; for fat- 

 tening swine, 412. 



Teeth, appearance of permanent 

 teeth in sheep, 129. 



Three-eighths blood wools, 229. 



Three-quarter bred, definition, 442 ; 

 sheep, 169. 



Three-year-old, definition, 442. 



Thoropins, definition, 445. 



Thoroughbred, definition, 439. 



