INDEX. 



451 



E 



Babies, 283, 390. 



Backs for feeding sheep, 299-231. 

 cut of slatted box rack, 239. 

 cut of wall racks, 230. 

 cut of end view of same, 231. 

 Bam, influence of, in breeding, 108-115. 

 oftenest gives the form to progeny, 109, 



110. 

 points to be regarded in, 111, 112. 

 capacity of, to procreate, 113, 209. 

 proper size of^ 114. 

 horns of, require attention, 189. 

 conflnement of, 190. 

 training of, 191. 



treatment of, when vicious, 191. 

 selecting ewes for, 205. 

 modes of coupling, 206, 207. 

 management of, during coupling, 207 



209. 

 causes which sometimes render them 



unsure stock-getters, 207 and note, 

 when they require mechanical assist- 

 ance, 207 note, 

 preparation of, for coupling season, 



208. 



feed indosures, etc., 208. 



Eeaumur's experiments, showing how 



f^eds increase animal products, 236, 



238. 



Bed Water, 304. 



Begistration of sheep, 180-182. 



form of a register, 181. 

 Begularity in feeding, importance of, 246, 



247. 

 Bemelee, Loyal C, crosses the Paular 

 and Infautado sheep, 128 note, 

 his connection with the origin of the 

 improved Paular, 417. 

 Eheumatism, 155, 156, 379. 



in lambs, 155, 156. 

 Bich, Charles, origin of his Paular flock of 

 Merinos, 30-33. 

 John T. succeeds to the flock of his 



father, 31.' 

 Messrs. John T. and Virtulan, succeed 

 to the flock of John T. Bich, Sen., 31, 

 32. 

 the course of breeding and character of 



the Hich flock, 33, 33, 119. 

 cut of a ewe bred by the Messrs. Bich, 



31. 

 eSect of a dip of other blood on the 

 flock, 128 and note. 

 Eickets, the 380. 

 Bives, William C, imports Shropshire 



sheepinto United States, 66. 

 Bobinson, Brastus, breeds the " Old Bob 

 inson Earn," 128 note, 

 originates the "Bobinson Sheep" of 



Vermont, 128 note. 

 his connection with the origin of the 

 improved Paulars, 416, 418. 

 Bobinson Earn, the old, his pedigree, 416- 



418. 

 Boots, value of, for fattening sheep, 418, et 



sea. 

 ,Eot, the, 37^-378. 



Botch, Francis, his flock of early American 



Merinos, 33. 

 cut of one of his ewes, illustrating 



those early Merinos, 34. 

 iniports South Downs into the United 



States, 57. 

 his account of a Spanish Sheep Dog, 



s 



Sacking wool, 177. 



Salt marshes healthy for sheep, 88. 



Salt necessary to sheep in summer, 192. 



necessary in winter, 247. 

 Sanford, William E., his account of the 

 present Merinos in Spain, 18. 

 his remedy for stretches, 310. 

 his purchases of sheep, 412, 414. 

 Saxton,JNelson A., his remedy for stretches, 



310. 

 Scab, the, 338-348. 



cut of the acarus, 339. 

 erysipelatous, 344. 

 Scotch Black -faced sheep — (see Black - 



Scotch sheep.) 

 Scours — (see DiaiThea.) 

 Scrofula, 378, 380. 



Seaman, Isaac, his prize essay on parturi- 

 ent fever, 331, 336. 

 Selection — (see Drafting and Selection.) 

 Shade in pastures of much utility, 212. 

 Shearing sheep, mode of performing, 170- 

 172. 

 stubble shearing and trimming, 172. 

 shearing lambs and shearing sheep 

 semi-annually, 172. 

 Sheds temporary and permanent, for sheep, 



211-214. 

 Sheep, the most profltable animals to de- 

 pasture our cheap lands, 96. 

 necessary to good farming on grain 



farms, 96. 

 more profitable than dairy cows in por- 

 tions of New York, 97. 

 the best cleaners of new lands, 97. 

 best adapted to the pecuniary means 

 of a portionof our rural population, 

 97. 

 their management simple and easily 



learned, 97. 

 they never die in debt to man, 97. 

 catching and handling, mode of, 139- 



140. 

 turning out to grass, 141. 

 tagging, how performed, 141. 

 cut illustrative of tagging, 141. 

 necessity of eradicating burs from 



pastures, 142. 

 lambing time, place for and assistance 



in, 142-144. 

 spring management of, 139-162. 

 summer management of, 163-197. 

 administering medicines to when in 



health, 193. 

 housing of in summer, 195. 

 pampering of, 196. 

 fall management of, 198-210. 

 former mode of fall feeding, 202, 203. 



