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INDEX 



acter, 194; diflScult parturition, 

 334 ; diseases, 331 ; dry forage for, 

 217; Dutch Belted, 262; aversion 

 of the womb, 338; feeding, 203; 

 feeding calf, 251 ; feeding in lot, 289 ; 

 feeding-standard, 204 ; food-effect 

 on composition of milk, 210 ; food 

 requirements for milk, 203 ; form, 

 190 ; forming the herd, 238 ; garget, 

 340 ; general examination, 190 ; 

 grading-up, 239 ; grading, first gen- 

 eration, 240 ; grading, second gen- 

 eration, 241 ; Guernsey cow, 192 ; 

 Haecker's feeding-standard, 206 ; 

 heifer calves from high-producing 

 dams, 240 ; high production, 222 ; 

 Holstein-Friesian, 205 ; kicking, 354 ; 

 impaction, 353 ; milk fever, 338 ; 

 milking, 260; milk-records, 229; 

 milk signs, 197 ; milk veins, 197 ; 

 order of supplying food, 212 ; par- 

 turition time, 248 ; plan of breeding, 

 237 ; productive period, 246 ; pro- 

 tecting from flies, 215 ; quality, 193 ; 

 retained afterbirth, 336 ; ringing the 

 bull, 264 ; sample rations, 224 ; 

 season to breed, 247 ; selection and 

 improvement, 242; silage, 218; 

 succulent feeds, 217; sucking cow, 

 355 ; summer feeding, 215 ; tem- 

 perament, 193 ; testing associations, 

 235 ; tuberculosis, 343 ; udder, 195 ; 

 uniformity, 245 ; watering, 213 ; 

 winter feeding, 216. 



Dairy cow (see dairy cattle). 



Dairy herd, 238 ; (see dairy cattle) . 



Dairy type, 186. 



Davis & Son, Prank, 329. 



Davison, Dr. G. H., 390. 



Daytholeum, 426. 



Dehorning, 354. 



De Kol 2d, 85. 



Delane Merino, 360, 364. , 



Denmark, 85. 



Devon bull, 344. 



Diarrhea, 173 ; in calves, 341 ; in foal, 

 115; in lamb, 416. 



Dickinson Merino, 360. 



Difficult parturition, 334. 



Digestion, 44 ; conditions influencing, 

 48. 



Digestive organs, 45. 



Dip, how used, 425. 



Dipping, frequency, 426 ; importance, 



423; self, 503; sheep, 423; swine, 



503. 

 Dipping-vat, 424. 

 Diseases of cattle, 331 ; of the horse, 



151 ; of sheep, 439 ; of swine, 510 ; 



prevention, 265. 

 Distemper, 177. 

 Docking lambs, 419. 

 Dogs and goats, 377. 

 Double safety, 141. 

 Drenching, 154. 

 Dressing winter lambs, 393. 

 Driving horse, feeding, 63. 

 Drove (see swine). 

 Dry forage, 217. 

 Dry-lot, 289. 

 Dry matter in food, 526. 

 Dual-purpose cow, 309. 

 Dumb jockey, 137. 

 Duroc Jersey, swine, 474. 

 Dutch Belted cattle, 262. 



Ear marking sheep, 420 ; swine, 502. 



Eczema, 169. 



Elbows, 25; capped, 164; "tied in,'' 

 25. 



Enemas, 156. 



English shire horse, 35. 



Environment, 75. 



Erotas, 85. 



Escutcheon, 198. 



Eversion of the womb, 338. 



Ewe, 406; lambing time, 411 ; lamb- 

 ing pens, 412 ; method of mating, 

 407 ; parturition, 412 ; pregnant, 

 410 ; productive period, 407 ; season 

 to breed, 407. 



Exercise for sheep, 387. 



Exile of St. Lambert, 86. 



External medication, 155. 



Eye, diseases of, 180 ; moon-blindness, 

 181; sore, 417, 440. 



Fall lambs, .396 ; feeding, 396. 



Farmer's cow, 309. 



Farms for fattening cattle, 322. 



Farrowing swine, 496. 



Fat, reading, 233. 



