Malting feed for swine, 417. 
Manes, braiding and trimming of, 
for the show ring, 351. 
Manure, cistern for swine, 383; 
454 Index 
XI, 154; feeding period, 155; 
feed racks for fattening, 159; 
feeds and rations for, 156; for 
the feed lot, 154; grain ration 
for, 190; hay for, 156; hot 
house, 123; marketing of pure- 
bred, 193; marketing of spring 
jambs, 192; market weights of 
winter fed, 163; market weights 
of spring, 193; marking of, on 
range, 140; ‘‘Pewees and Pea- 
nuts,’ 155; spring, 122; wean- 
ing of farm lambs, 192; weaning 
of range lambs, 147. 
Lands, alfalfa, 24; classification 
of Western, 8; cropped, maps, 
7; cultivated in the West, 23; 
deeded, 10; Indian, 10; public, 
disposition of, 19; public, method 
of obtaining, 11; reserved for 
power sites, 10; unappropriated, 
area of, 8; unappropriated, use 
of, 10; wheat, 24. 
Laws governing stallions, 314. 
Leading sheep, 223. 
Leasing the ranges, 22. 
Legging out, definition, 441. 
Leicester blood in Corriedale, 167. 
Lifting and carrying sheep, 223. 
Lincoln blood in the Corriedale, 167. 
Line breeding, definition, 438. 
Line riding, 41, 55. 
Linseed oil meal (see Oil meal). 
Litters, two per year, 392. 
Live-stock, breeding, 28; distribu- 
tion of, 25; markets, 26. 
Location for pure-bred cattle, 110; 
for swine, 370; influence in feed- 
ing horses, 259; of windows, 377. 
Long wool, definition, 441. 
Losses of cattle, 48. 
Loss of lambs from castration and 
docking, 187. 
Lots (see Exercise). 
Luster, definition, 441. 
Machine shearing, 191; advantages 
of, 141. 
Maintenance requirement of swine, 
413. 
swine, handling, 383. 
Mare, definition, 444. 
Margin in fattening cattle, 72. 
Marketing cattle, cost of, 86; fat 
cattle, 83; finished horses, 360; 
mutton stock, 147; pure-bred 
cattle, 115; pure-bred horses, 
343; pure-bred sheep, 148, 193; 
pure-bred swine, 430; range 
horses, 330; spring lambs, 192. 
Market requirement of jacks and 
jennets, 364; weights of lambs, 
163, 193. 
Markets in the West, 26. 
Marking cattle, 103; lambs on the 
range, 140; pigs, 425. 
Melons for swine, 375. 
Merino blood, in the Corriedale, 
167; on the range, 166. 
Merino sheep on the range, 125, 
127; in cross-breeding, 168. 
Middle wool, definition, 441. 
Middlings, and shorts for swine, 
411; for fattening cattle, 90; 
for weanling pigs, 423; value for 
weanling pigs, 403. 
Milk fever in swine, 426. 
Milo maize for fattening swine, 409. 
Mongrel, definition, 438. 
Moon blindness, definition, 444. 
Mules, advantages and _ disad- 
vantages of, 362; definition of, 
361, 444; exports and imports 
of, 246; feeding of, 363; jacks 
and jennets, discussion of, Chap. 
XXYV, 361; illustration of com- 
bine team, 353. 
Mutton, baby mutton, 123; cross- 
breeding, 166; lambs in feed 
lot, 147; producers of the West, 
Chap. IX, 141; stock, market- 
ing of, 147. 
Navel disease, 286. 
New Zealand, the home of the Cor- 
riedale, 168. 
