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INDEX 



Ringing swine, 474. 



Roaring, 176. 



Roots, 218 ; for dairy cattle, 218 ; for 



sheep, 387; for swine, 475. 

 Ross & Carpenter, 277. 

 Rotation pastures, 286. 

 Rump, in sheep, 370 ; in swine, 462. 

 Rye, 386. 



Saddle horse, 97 ; five-gaited, three- 

 gaited; 97. 



Salt, 60, 379; for beef cattle, 325; 

 for horses, 60 ; for swine, 472. 



Sand cracks, 17, 168. 



Sanitary milk, 257 ; cow stable, 258 ; 

 milking, 260 ; utensils, 260. 



Scab, 423, 440. 



Schmit-Kolding sterile-air outfit, 339. 



Score card, value, 5. 



Scouring, 173. 



Scours in calves, 341; colts, 115; 

 sheep, 416; swine, 521. 



Scratches, 168. 



Season of the year to breed beef cattle, 

 313 ; dairy cattle, 247 ; horses, 104 ; 

 sheep, 407 ; swine, 492. 



Sedgley Farms, 252. 



Seedy toe, 17. 



Selection, 77. 



Self-feeder, 325. 



Shade, for beef cattle, 325 ; for sheep, 

 384; for swine, 508. 



Shearing sheep by hand, 428 ; by ma- 

 chinery, 429. 



Shearing, sheep, 427 ; tying wool, 

 433 ; when to shear, 428 ; wool-box, 

 433. 



Sheath, foul, 180. 



Shed, covered, 258 ; cattle feeding, 326. 



Shed-shaped hog house, 508. 



Sheep, 359 ; barns, 433 ; bedding, 388, 

 436; bloating, 446; breeding, 403; 

 breeding ewes, 407 ; caked udder, 

 448; care, 422; care of feet, 388; 

 castrating lambs, 419 ; catching and 

 holding, 360 ; change of pasture, 

 383; Cheviot, 425; chilled lamb, 

 414 ; choosing breeding stock, 404 ; 

 condition and weight, 367 ; consti- 

 pation, 447 ; constitutional vigor, 

 367 ; Cotswold ram, 441 ; Delaine 



Merino, 360 ; detail characters, 368 ; 

 difficult parturition, 412 ; dipping, 

 423 ; diseases, 439 ; disowned lamb, 

 415 ; docking lambs, 419 ; dogs, 377 ; 

 dressing winter lambs, 393 ; exer- 

 cise, 387 ; estimating age, 361 ; ewe 

 flock, 406 ; fall lambs, 396 ; fatten- 

 ing, 388 ; feeding, 377 ; feeding the 

 flock, 380 ; feeding flock in summer, 

 381 ; feeding flock in winter, 386 

 feeding lambs, 391 ; feeding in corn 

 belt, 399; feeding in East, 399 

 feeding in West, 398 ; feed racks 

 436; fine-wool, 363; fleece, 372 

 flock in winter, 386 ; flushing, 407 

 food requirements, 379 ; foot rot, 

 440 ; form, 366 ; general appearance 

 366 ; garget, 448 ; gestation, table, 

 408 ; Hampshire, 400 ; holding and 

 catching, 360 ; hot-house lamb, 388 

 judging, 359 ; lambs, 413 ; lamb 

 ills, 416; lambs on full feed, 397 

 lambing pens, 412 ; lambing time, 

 411; Leicester ewe, 437; lice, 440 

 Lincoln, 449 ; lot, 438 ; management, 

 422 ; managing the ram, 410 

 marking, 421 ; mating, 407 ; method 

 of examination, 359 ; mutton type 

 365 ; Oxford, 409 ; overfeeding, 447 

 pasture, 382 ; plan of breeding, 404 

 productive period, 407 ; quality, 

 367 ; feeding rack, 398 ; ram, 406 

 ration, 386 ; roots, 387 ; sample 

 rations, 401 ; scab, 423, 440 

 season to breed, 407 ; shade, 384, 

 385 ; shearing, 427 ; Shropshire, 

 342; sick, 439; silage, 387; sore 

 eyes, 440 ; sore teats, 440 ; South- 

 down, 384 ; spring lambs, 396 ; 

 stomach-worm, 446 ; tagging, 383 ; 

 tape-worms, 444 ; tick, 426 ; turning 

 to pasture, 382 ; types, 363, 405 ; 

 uniformity, 368, 405 ; washing, 427 ; 

 weaning lambs, 417; winter lambs, 

 398 ; Wolff-Lehman standards, 380. 



Shetland pony, 117; why small, 71. 



Shields on swine, 454. 



Shipping beef cattle, 299. 



Shoe-boil, 165. 



Shoe, fitting, 133. 



Shoeing, 132. 



