INDEX 



Accumulating stations, 357 

 Afterbirth, 253, 254 

 Age, effect of, on rate of growth, 369 

 indications of, 61 

 the break-joint, 62 

 teeth, 61 

 Alfalfa, a cause of bloat, 277 



and corn, proportions of for fatten- 

 ing, 374, 377 

 experiments of Illinois Station, 

 374, 377 

 feeding value of, 277 

 American Merino (see Merino), 191 



Tunis (see Tunis) 

 Ancestral history (see Pedigree), 39 

 Anus, plugged, 263 



Argentine Republic, sheep raising in, 16 

 Arsenical dip, 310 

 Astrakan fur, 214 

 Atwood, Stephen, 190 

 Auction sales of wool at shipping 



points, 415 

 Austraha, sheep raising in, 13 



present importance of, 14 



Bacillus necrophorous, 311 

 Bakewell, Robert, 7 



method of, in improving Leicester 

 breed, 150 

 Barley, feeding value of, 380 

 Beans, feeding value of, 381 

 Bedding, for fattening sheep, 360 

 Beet by-products, feeding value of, 381 

 Berkshire Knots, 122 

 Blackface, Highland, 168 



description, 168 



distribution, 169 



history, 168 



mutton, 169 



properties, 168 

 "Blackfaces," 137 

 Bloat, due to clover and alfalfa, 277 



to rape, 280 



to soybeans, 281 

 treatment of, 278 



cow's mUk, 278 

 in cows, formalin solution, 278 



Bloat, treatment of keeping mouth 

 open, 278 

 pressure on animal's sides, 278 

 trocar and cannula, 278 

 Bluegrass, fattening value of, 276, 387 

 Bot-fly, sheep, 305 

 Bovidae, family, 45 

 Branding, detrimental to wool, 317 

 Break-joint, 62, 452 

 Breed type of sheep, 74 

 and general type inseparable, 75 

 constitution of, 75 

 objectionable points, 75 

 sex character, 75 

 femininity, 78 

 mascuhnity, 76 

 Breeding, adaptability of sheep, for, 33 

 of England, 34 

 of Italy, 34 

 importance of, in United States, 



35 

 neglect of, 35 

 Spanish Merinos, 34 

 ancestry, value of, in, 38 

 metho(& of, 37 

 cross, 40 

 in England, 42 

 in United States, 41 

 of Cotswold, 41 

 of Hampshire, 40 

 of Oxford, 41 

 of Shropshire, 40 

 trueness of tj^ae after, 41 

 in-and-in, 40 

 line, 40 



of Shropshires in England, 40 

 mass, 37 

 merit of, 38 

 prolificacy, 32 

 selection of stock, 37 

 Breeding habits, 64 



climatic influence, 65 

 gestation period, 65 

 heat, duration of, 65 

 period of, 64 

 recurrence of, 65 

 Iambs, number of, of one birth, 66 

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