INDEX 



463 



Cheviot, history, 145 

 markings, 147 

 mutton or lamb, 148 

 origin of, 145 

 properties of, 147 

 skin, 147 

 wool, 147 

 Clover, a cause of bloat, 277 

 and corn, in fattening process, 376, 



379 

 feeding value of, 277 

 sweet, feeding value of, 279 

 Coal tar dip, 310 

 Commission houses, wool marketing 



through, 414 

 Concentrates for fattening, 379 

 barley, 380 

 commercial, 381 

 beet by-products, 381 

 molasses products, 381 

 wheat bran, 381 

 screenings, 381 

 composition of, 382 

 emmer, 380 

 grains, 379 

 kafir corn, 380 

 oats, 380 



peas and beans, 380 

 Constipation, in young lambs, 263 

 Cooperative selling of wool, 415 

 Corn, and alfalfa, for fattening, 374, 

 377 

 and clover hay, 376, 379 

 forms of feeding, 375 

 Cornfields, value of as feeding fields, 



388 

 Corn harvesting with lambs, 388 

 Cornstalks, feeding value of, 390 

 Corriedale, 41, 163, 180 

 breeding qualities, 182 

 description, 180 

 distribution, 183 

 history, 180 



importation into U. S., 182 

 mutton, 182 

 properties of, 182 

 Cotswold, 124, 156 

 breeding quaUties, 158 

 cross-breeding, 159 

 description, 156 

 distribution, 160 

 formation of, 41 

 history, 156 

 markings, 158 



Cotswold, mutton, 169 



properties of, 159 



skin, 158 



transition from old to modern type, 

 156 



wool, 158 

 Cowpeas, feeding value of, 281 

 Coyotes, depredations of, 424 

 Creep, 272 



construction of, 273 

 Cross-breeding, 40 



for wool and mutton combined, 33 



in England, 42 



in United States, 41 



of Cheviot, 148 



of Cotswold, 41 



qf Hampshires, 40, 130 



of Karakul, 213 



of Leioesters, 153 



Border and Cheviot, 154 



of Oxford, 41 



rams on Merino ewes, 135 



of Shropshire, 40 



of Suffolk, 139 



trueness of tj^pe after, 41 



Devon Long Wool breed, 175 

 Digestible nutrients, in fattening ra- 

 tion, 377 

 balance in, 379 

 protein, 378 

 in roughages, 385 

 in succulent feeds, 385 

 in various concentrates, 382 

 Digestive tract of sheep, 57 

 Dip, arsenical, 310 

 coal-tar, 310 

 hme-sulfur, 309 

 manufactured, 310 

 tobacco, 310 

 Dipping, for destruction of hce, 306 

 of maggot fly, 306 

 of scab mite, 308 

 of ticks, 306 

 on western ranges, 419 

 plant, 447 

 Docking, 282 



operation for, 283 

 Dogs, a menace to sheep raising, 312 

 Dorset Down, 173 

 Dorset Horn, 140 



breeding habits of, 64, 144 

 Delaine Merino cross, 144 

 description, 141 



