Index 
Economy of different kinds of live- 
stock, 31. 
Emmer, for fattening cattle, 89; 
for fattening swine, 409; for 
sheep, 212. 
Energy (see 
ments). 
Enlarged homesteads, 18. 
Ewe neck, definition, 443. 
Ewes, accidents to, 183; at lamb- 
ing, 186; barren, 178; brecding 
age of, 128; cost of feeding, 164; 
culling of, 179; definition, 441; 
disowning of lambs, 134, 186; 
dry, 194; exercise for, 183; 
feeding in winter, 182; feminin- 
ity of, 179; flushing of, 179, 
218; for the farm, 178; for the 
range, 127; gestation period of, 
129, 181; grinding of grain for, 
Nutritive require- 
164; management of dry ewes, 
194; number allowed to each 
ram, 129, 181; nutritive re- 
quirements, 183; on the range, 
127; seasons of breeding, 179; 
selection of, 178; shelter for, 182; 
summer management, 145; tag- 
ging, 179; water for, 183; winter- 
ing of ewe lambs, 183; wintering 
of farm sheep, 182. 
Exercise, brood mares and colts, 
illustration, 274; for the preg- 
nant ewe, 183. 
Exercise lots, for mares and colts, 
289; for stallions, 272, 322. 
Exports and imports of horses, 246. 
Fairs and stock shows, 115. 
Fall, calves, 60; grazing for cattle, 
41% pigs, 393. 
Farm cattle, management of, 50. 
Farmer breeders, 50. 
Farm lands of the West, 23. 
Farra sheep, 122, 172; buildings 
for, 172; dipping of, 192; feed- 
ing of, 209; in western Oregon 
and Washington, 172; market- 
ing, 123; shearing of, 190. 
Farms for raising sheep, 172. 
Farrow, definition, 445. 
451 
Farrowing, 395. 
Farrowing pen, 395; plan of, 384; 
treatment of, 397. 
Fats (see Nutritive Requirements). 
Fattening, cattle, amounts of feed, 
81; cattle, experiments in, 80; 
cattle, length of feeding period, 
82; horses, exercise for, 348; 
horses for show and sale, 346; 
lambs, 157; range lambs in 
winter, Chap. XI, 154; steers, 
Chap. V, 68; swine, Chap. 
XXIX, 407. 
Feeder, cattle, 43; cattle, descrip- 
tion of, 51; cattle, definition, 
439; lambs, definition, 441; 
swine, definition, 445; lambs, 
weight of, 163; pigs, marketing, 
405. 
Feeding, principles of, 29; 
Cattle, Sheep, Horses, 
Barley, Alfalfa, etc.). 
Fees for service of stallions, 324. 
Feet, care of horses’, 271; trim- 
ming colts’, 295. 
Fences, for cattle corrals, 95; for 
sheep, 202; for swine, 382. 
Fencing, for cattle, 94; public range, 
10; ranges for sheep, 150. 
Fender rail, definition, 446; 
swine, 384. 
Fermenting feed for swine, 417. 
Field peas for swine, 410. 
Filled-in hock, definition, 443. 
Filly, definition, 443. 
Fine, medium wools, 229; wools, 
definition, 441. 
Fistula, definition, 443. 
Fitting horses for show and sale, 
general discussion, Chap. XXIV, 
346. 
Fleece, irregularity due to poor 
breeding, 167. 
Flock (see Sheep). 
Floors for swine, 383. 
Flushing ewes, 179, 218. 
Foal, definition, 443. 
Foals, breaking to halter, 294; 
care of, after birth, 287; cas- 
tration of, 297; joint disease of, 
(see 
Swine, 
for 
