X CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER XXI. 



PEAIEIB SHEEP HUSBANDET, 



Prairie Management in Summer — Lambing — Polds and Dogs — 

 Stables — Herding — 'Washing — Shearing — Storing and Sell- 

 ingWool — Ticks — Prairie Diseases — Salt — Weaning Lambs 

 — 'Prairie Management in Winter — Winter Feed — Sheds or 

 Stables — Water — Location of Sheep Establishment 348 



CHAPTER XXIL 



ANATOMY AND DISEASES OF SHEEP. — THE HEAD. 



Comparatively small Nmnber of American Sheep Diseases'^ Low 

 Type of American Sheep Diseases — Anatomy of the Sheep 

 — The Skeleton — The Skull — The Horns and their Diseases 

 —The Teeth — Swelled Head — Sore Pace — Swelled Lips — 

 Inflammation of the Eye, 361 



CHAPTER XXm. 



AITATOMT AND DISEASES OP THE SHEEP's HEAD, CONTINUED. 



Section of Sheep's Head — Grub in the Head — Hydatid on the 

 Brain — Water on the Brain — Apoplexy — Inflammation of 

 the Brain — Tetanus or Locked -Jaw — Epilepsy — Palsy — 

 Rabies 273 



CHAPTER XXIV. 



DISEASES OP THE DIGESTIVE OEGAOSrS. 



Blain — Obstructions of the GuUet — The Stomachs and their 

 Diseases — ^External and Internal Appearance of the Stomachs 



— The Mode of Administering Medicines into the Stomachs 

 of Sheep — Hoove — Poisons — Inflammation of the Rumen, 

 or Paunch — 'Obstruction of the Maniplus — Acute Dropsy, 

 or Red -Water — Enteritis, or Inflammation of the Coats of 

 the Intestines — Diarrhea — Dysentery — Constipation — Colic, 

 or Stretches — ^Braxy, or Inflammation of the Bowels — ^Worms 



— Pining 291 



CHAPTER XXV. 

 DISEASES OP THE CIECULATOET AND THE EESPIEATOET 



STSTBMS. 



The Pulse — Place and Mode of Bleeding— Fever — Inflammatory 

 Fever — Mali^ant Inflammatory Fever — Typhus Fever — 

 Catarrh — Malignant Epizootic Catarrh — Pneumonia, or Inflam- 

 mation of the Lungs — Pleuritis or Pleurisy — Consumption,.. 314 



CHAPTER XXVI. 



DISEASES OP THE GENEEATrVB AND TTEINAET OEGANS. 



Abortion — Inversion of the Womb — Garget — Parturient, or 

 Puerperal Fever — Cystitis, or Inflammation of the Bladder,. . 329 



