Index 
cussion, Chap. XXII, 326; horses 
on, 249; homesteading of, 16; 
improvement, 19; lambing of 
sheep on, 130; lambs, division 
of, 147; lands, ineome from, with 
cattle, 49; legal problems, 19; 
mares, discussion of, 327; Merino 
blood on, 166; method of lamb- 
ing on, 131; natural divisions 
of, 55; political problems, 20; 
possible sale of, 22; problem of 
range sheep man, 166; rams, 
description of, 127; rams, price 
of, 127; sheep discussion of, 
Chap. X, 124; sheep (sce Sheep) ; 
spring and fall, 12; stallions, 
care of, 328; stallions, legal 
control of, 330; summer, for 
sheep, 125; system of herding 
sheep on, 145; time of lambing 
on, 130; winter and summer, 11; 
winter, for sheep, 126. 
Rape for flushing sheep, 179; for 
pigs, 405; number of pigs to the 
acre, 405. 
Rations, definition of balanced, 
434; for brood mares, 275; for 
city work horses, 261; for driving 
and saddle horses, 262; for ewes, 
182; for fattening cattle, 81; 
for fattening horses, 347; for 
fattening lambs, 156; for foals, 
293; for idle horses, 265; for 
lambs, 157; for mules, 363; for 
orphan foals, 292; for pigs, 413; 
for pure-bred horses, 339; for 
stallions, 315, 317; two- or three- 
year-old colts, 298; for winter- 
ing colts, 296; for work horses, 
253; for yearling colts, 297; 
swine balancing own, 418. 
Recording pure-bred horses, 336. 
Registration of horses, method of, 
336, 338; origin of, 335. 
Relative economy of different kinds 
of live stock, 331. 
Reserved lands, 8. 
Reserves, forest (see Forest re- 
serves). 
Ringbone, definition, 444. 
457 
Ringers, for swine, 387. 
Ringing swine, 406. 
Rings for swine, 387. 
Roarer, definition, 444. 
Roasting feed for swine, 417. 
Rolled barley, for fattening horses, 
347; for wintering yearling colts, 
298; for work horses, 252; (see 
Barley). 
Roots, for sheep, 214; for stallions, 
315. , 
Rounding up cattle, 41. 
Rubbing posts for swine, 386. 
Ruptured pigs, castration of, 400. 
Rye for fattening cattle, 89; hay 
for work horses, 257. 
Saddle horses, breaking, 307; feed- 
ing, 261. 
Sage brush for grazing, 12. 
Salt, for horses, 260; from alkali 
licks for range sheep, 147. 
Salting sheep on the range, 146. 
San Francisco as a live-stock mar- 
ket, 27. 
Sanitation for swine, 377. 
Scab, dipping by Livestock Sanitary 
Board, 143; dipping for, on the 
farm, 192; dipping for, on the 
range, 143. 
Scales, for cattle, 99; 
cattle, 99. 
Sercenings for fattening cattle, 89; 
for fattening lambs, 156. 
Serotum, definition, 438. 
Scrub, definition, 438. 
Scurs, definition, 441. 
Seattle as a live-stock market, 27. 
Self-feeder, definition, 446; for 
sheep, 198; for swine, 417. 
Service fees for stallions, 324. 
Shade in pork production, 371. 
Shearing, advantages of machine 
shearing, 141; for the feed lot, 
161; late shearing, 191; machine 
and blade, 141, 191; method of 
shearing in Australian shearing 
shed, 237; number per day, 141; 
on the farm, 190; on the range, 
141; sheds, Australian, 234. 
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