INDEX 



467 



Feeding, self-feeder method, 367 

 sorting out marketable animals, 365 

 troughs and racks, 364 

 types of, 355 

 dry lot, 355 



feeds, concentrates, 355 

 harvested or stored, 355 

 over fields, altogether, 357 

 feeding period, 357 

 first, then under shelter, 356 

 pea hull silage, 358 

 specialized plants, 357 

 under shelter, 356 

 advantages of, 356 

 water, 361 

 Feeding plants, speciaUzed, 358 

 Feeding stations, 357 

 Feeding value of alfalfa, 277 

 barley, 380 

 beans, 381 



beet by-products, 381 

 bluegrass, 276, 387 

 clover, 277 



sweet, 279 

 concentrates (see Concentrates), 



379 

 corn, 237, 374, 377 



kafir, 380 

 cornstalks, 375, 390 

 cowpeas, 281 

 emmer, 380 

 field feeds, 387 

 grain (see Grain), 379 

 hay, legume, 382 

 prairie, 383 

 sorghum, 383 

 timothy, 383 

 molasses products, 381 

 oats, 380 

 rape, 387 



roots, 239, 377, 383 

 roughages (see Roughages), 238, 



268, 376, 382 

 rye, 279 

 silage, 383 

 corn, 384 

 pea, 384 

 sorghum, 384 

 soybeans, 280 

 straw, 383 

 succulent feeds, 376 

 timothy, 387 

 wheat bran, 381 

 screenings, 381 



Femininity of ewes, 78 



mild expression indicative of, 78 

 Fences and hurdles, 447 

 Fleece (see Wool), 

 Flocking instinct, 67 



value of, 68 

 Flushing, 230, 254 



feeds for, 230 

 Folding habits, 64 

 Foot gland, 46 

 Foothills and mountains for range 



feeding, 393 

 Foot-rot, 311 



contagious, 311 



non-contagious, 311 

 Free-choice system of feeding, 272 

 Fur-bearing sheep, 212 



Garget, 255 



contagiousness of, 255 

 effect of, on lamb, 256 

 treatment of, 255 

 Gestation period for ewes, 65 

 Glands, foot, of goats, 47 

 of sheep, 46 

 functions of, 46 

 sldn, of sheep, 55 

 suborbital face, 46 

 Glossary of terms used in wool trade, 



327 

 Goats, foot glands in, 47 

 Goitre, sheep, 311 



Grain and roughage, proportion of, in 

 fattening process, 373 

 feeding value of, 379 

 barley, 380 

 corn, 237, 374, 377 

 emmer, 380 

 kafir corn, 380 

 oats, 380 

 Grass, fattening value of, 387 

 bluegrass, 387 

 timothy, 387 

 Gregariousness, 67 

 Grub in the head, 305 



Habits of sheep, 62 , 



breeding (see Breeding habits), 64 

 change of feeding ground, 63 

 feeding and drinking, 62 

 flocking instinct, 67 



value of, 68 

 folding, 64 

 following the leader, 68 



