Index 455 
Numbers and values, of horses and 
roules, 244; of beef cattle, 37. 
Nutrients per 100 pounds gain of 
different stock, 31. 
Nutrition, principles of, 29. 
Nutritive requirements, of brood 
mares, 274; of brood sows, 394; 
of fattening horses, 347; of 
fattening swine, 410; of growing 
horses, 291; of idle horses, 253; 
of pregnant ewes, 183; of stal- 
lions, 315; of work horses, 252. 
Oat hay for work horses, 257. 
Oats for city work horses, 261; for 
driving or saddle horses, 262; 
for fattening cattle, 89; for fat- 
tening horses, 347; for fattening 
lambs, 156; for feeding brood 
mares, 274; for growing horses, 
291; for sheep, 212; for stal- 
lions, 317; for swine, 403; for 
wintering foals, 297; for winter- 
ing yearling colts, 298; for work 
horses, 251, 256. 
Oil meal for fattening cattle, 90; 
for fattening horses, 347; for 
feeding brood mares, 274; for 
feeding sheep, 213; for sheep on 
the range, 130; for swine, 411; 
for work horses, 252, 256, 260. 
One-half blood wools, 229. 
One-quarter blood wools, grade, 229. 
Operations and minor ailments, 
Chap. XXI, 419. = 
Oregon, farm sheep of, 172. 
Orphan foals, 292. 
Over-reach, definition, 444. 
Packer’s demand for swine, 372. 
Packing houses, methods of buying 
cattle, 85. 
Packing, of wools, 232; season for 
hogs, 373. 
Paddle, definition, 444. 
Paints in wools, 231. 
Panama breed of sheep, 168. 
Panels for sheep, 196. 
Paralysis in swine, 422. 
Parrot mouthed, definition, 444. 
Parturition, definition, 438; in 
brood mares, 275; in brood 
mares, description of, 285; in 
sows, 395, 396; signs of, in brood 
mares, 285. 
Pasture, annual, for growing lambs, 
188; annual, for lambs, alfalfa, 
220; annual, for lambs, clover, 
218; annual, for lambs, field 
peas, 218; annual, for lambs, 
kale, 220; annual, for lamb, 
rape, 218; annual, for lambs, 
rye, 219; annual, for lambs, 
wheat, 219; annual, for lambs, 
vetches, 219; annual, for sheep, 
217; for brood mares, 274; for 
driving and saddle horses, 262; 
for growing horses, 291; for idle 
horses, 255; for sheep, 217; for 
stallions in breeding season, 315; 
for swine, 375, 405; for weaning 
lambs, 192; for weanling pigs, 
403, 404; for winter feeding 
sheep, 182; for wintering foals, 
297; for wintering yearling colts, 
298; for work horses, 259; in- 
fested, 217; pigs to the acre, 
405; pork to the acre, 405. 
Pea meal, proportion for fattening 
swine, 409. 
Peas, for sheep, 213; for swine, 410. 
Pedigrees, misrepresentation of, 
338; of stallions, 334; origin 
of, 335. 
Pens for lambing, 131. 
Percentage of calves, 58; of in- 
crease in cattle, 48; of increase 
in sheep, 140; of pure-bred sheep 
in America, 174; increase of 
sheep, average for Western states, 
140. 
Periods of heat, in brood mares, 
277; in cows, 60; in ewes, 181; 
in sows, 393. 
Permits for grazing in forest re- 
serves, 9. 
Pigs, age affects economy of gain, 
413; age affects price per pound, 
413; castration of, 399; creeps, 
400; definition, 446; dressing 
