Index 



461 



Ticks, dipping for, 142, 192. 



Timothy, for calves, 61 ; for city 

 work horses, 261 ; for driving or 

 saddle horses, 262 ; for fattening 

 cattle, 88 ; for fattening horsos, 

 348 ; for growing horses, 292 ; 

 or stallions in breeding season, 

 315; for wintering foals, 296; 

 for work horses, 252, 257, 260. 



Tools for minor operations, Fig. 49, 

 420. 



Top crosses, 336. 



Topography of the West, 3. 



Trimming, colt's feet, illustration, 

 294 ; feet of the colt, 295 ; feet 

 of swine, 424 ; feet of work 

 horses, 271. 



Trochar and Canula, 206. 



Troughs, for feeding sheep, 196 ; 

 for swine, 381. 



Tusks, clipping little pigs', 420; 

 cutting boars', 425. 



Twine for tying wools, 232. 



Two-year-old, definition, 442. 



Ulcers and wounds on swine, 419. 

 Unappropriated lands in the West, 



8. 

 Unsound, definition, 445. 



Values and numbers of horses and 



mules, 244. 

 Veal, definition, 440. 

 Ventilation for swine, 377. 

 Vetch hay, for fattening cattle, 89 ; 



for growing horses, 291 ; for 



work horses, 251, 258. 



Wall-eyed, definition, 445. 



Wallowing vats for swine, 386. 



War bridle, illustration, 308; de- 

 scription of, 310. 



War horses, exports of, 247 ; mules, 

 exports of, 247. 



Washington, farm sheep of, 172 ; 

 sheep for western, 174. 



Water, for horses, 260 ; for sheep, 

 146, 183 ; for swine, 377, 380. 



Weaning, calves, 61; foals, 289; 

 lambs on range, 147; lambs on 



the farm, 192 ; pigs, 400 ; pure- 

 bred calves, 114. 



Weanling, definition, 446. 



Weight, of cattle when marketed, 

 43 ; of market lambs, 163, 193. 



West, the, altitude of, 4 ; area of, 

 8 ; climate of, 5 ; definition of, 

 3 ; description of. Chap. I ; for 

 hog growing, 369 ; rainfall of, 5 

 soil of, 4 ; topography of, 3. 



Western lands, classification of, 8 

 swine markets, supply, 369. 



Wether, definition, 442 ; feeding of, 

 164. 



Wetting feed for swine, 416. 



Wheat, areas, 24 ; belt, horse feed- 

 ing in, 259 ; bran (see Bran) ; 

 for horses, 260, 261 ; for fattening 

 cattle, 89 ; for fattening swine, 

 409; for sheep, 212; hay for 

 work horses, 256, 257 ; straw for 

 idle horses, 254. 



Whey for fattening swine, 412. 



Whistler, definition, 445. 



Wild animals, loss of sheep from, 

 149 ; methods of combating, 149. 



Wild hay, for calves, 61 ; for fatten- 

 ing cattle, 88 ; for fattening 

 lambs, 156 ; for range horses, 

 330 ; for work horses, 257, 260. 



Windgalls, definition, 445. 



Windy, definition, 445. 



Winging, definition, 445. 



Wintering, calves, 61; cattle, 42; 

 cattle, general discussion, 63 ; 

 cows and calves, 60 ; ewes on 

 farm, 182; the ewe lamb, 183; 

 the foal, 296 ; on grass, 65 ; idle 

 horses, 255 ; of range sheep, 149 ; 

 range sheep on cottonseed and 

 linseed cake, 130 ; range sheep 

 on hay, 129 ; yearling colts, 298. 



Winter, management of sheep on 

 range, 129; ranges, 11; ranges, 

 for sheep, 126. 



Wool, American classes of, 226 ; 

 black wool, 232; box, 207; 

 branding paint for, 231; bur- 

 lap bags for containing wool, 

 232; carding wools, 227; dis- 



