INDEX 



475 



Sex type or character, 75 

 Sex weakness in rams, 76 

 Seymour, Richard, 140 

 Shearers, carelessness of, 413 

 hand, 412 



on western ranges, 413 

 Shearing, 322 



early, objections to, 323 

 good, requirements for, 321 

 hand shears, 321 

 power machines preferable, 321 

 influence of, on fattening sheep, 372 

 of breeding ewes, 322 

 on western ranges, 412 

 places for, 323 

 time for, 322 

 farm flocks, 322 

 range sheep, 322 

 Shearing camps, 411 

 Shearing floor, 446 

 Shearing machines, power, 321 

 Shearing season, on western ranges, 

 411 

 labor required during, 406 

 Sheep, a ruminant, 45 



and lamb feeding (see Feeding), 26, 



355 

 breeding of, on western ranges, 399 

 breeds of for range, 400 

 buildings for (see Buildings), 435 

 class of, on western ranges, 401 

 difference of, from other Bovidae, 45 

 enemies of, 68 



fattening of (see Feeding), 355 

 feeder (see Marlet classes), 349 

 fine-wool of Italy, 34 



adaptabihty poor, 34 

 habits of, breeding (see Breeding 

 habits), 64 

 feeding and drinking, 62 



water requirement, 64 

 feeding ground, change of, 63 

 flocking instinct, 67 



value of, 68 

 folding, 64 



following the leader, 68 

 non-resistance to disease, 69 

 recognition of young, 66 

 short herbage preferred, 63 

 increase in value of, 13 

 judging of (see Judging sheep), 82 

 life of a, 59 



age, indications of, 61 

 break-joint, the, 62 



Sheep, teeth, 61 

 old agCr 59 



change of surroundings bene- 

 ficial, 59 

 of slow development, 61 

 time of full growth, 59 

 management of, on western ranges 



(see Ranges, western), 402 

 market classes of (see Market 



classes), 340 

 mutton, grades of (see Market 



grades), 342 

 native home of, 63 

 nature of, 59 



of England, adaptability of, 34 

 position in zoological scheme, 45 

 problems in improvement of, 27 

 structure of, 45 

 digestive tract, 57 

 intestines, 58 

 stomach, 58 

 teeth, 57, 61, 62 

 glands, foot, 46 



functions of, 46 

 suborbital face, 46 

 hair, 52 



cortex of, 53 

 cuticle, 53 

 foUicle, 52 

 medulla, 53 

 hairy covering, variations in, 55 

 horns and hoofs, 55 

 interdigital pouch, 46 

 skeleton, 47 

 ribs, 48 



sternum or breast-bone, 48 

 variations in effects of, 48 

 vertebrae, 47 

 skin, and appendages, 51 

 color of, 51 

 glands of, 55 

 upper hp, 63 

 wool, 54 



function of, 54 

 irregularity of growth, 65 

 variations in, 55 

 summer enemies of, 296 

 teeth of, at advanced age, 62 



at various ages, 61 

 timidity and defencelessness of, 68 

 types of, 70 

 breed, 74 



and general type inseparable, 

 75 



