458 
Sheep, accidents to, 183; alkali 
licks, 197; annual pastures for, 
188, 217; auction sales for, 193; 
barns (see Shelter); barley for 
212; beet pulp for, 156; bloat 
in, 218; bran for, 213; branding, 
144; breeding, 181; breeding on 
the range, 129; breeding season 
of, 179; breeds for cross-breed- 
ing, 168; breeds for the range, 
125; buildings for, on the farm, 
172; buildings for range sheep, 
152; cabbage for, 215; capital 
required for, 151; catching of, 
223; chopping hay for, 159; 
concentrates for, 211; corn for, 
211; corrals for, 202; corrals for 
range sheep, 152; costs and 
profits, 150; cottonseed prod- 
ucts for, 213; creeps for lambs, 
189, 204; crooks for catching, 
199; cross-breeding for wool and 
mutton, 168; determination of 
age in, 128; dipping of farm 
sheep, 192; dipping of, for feed- 
lot, 163; dipping of, on the 
range, 142; dipping vats for, 
199; docking instruments for, 
docking chute for, 201; driving 
of, 222; ear labeling punch for, 
205; emmer for, 212; equip- 
ment for branding, 206; the 
ewe at lambing, 186; exercise 
for, 183; factors affecting feed- 
ing of, 209; farm, 122, 172; 
farms suitable for, 172; fatten- 
ing of range lambs in winter, 
154; feeding lambs, 155; feed- 
ing of farm sheep, 182, 209; 
feeding racks and troughs for, 
196; fences for, 202; flushing of 
ewes, 218; for the farm, 172; 
gains of, in feed lot, 163; gesta- 
tion period of, 129, 181; goitre 
in, 177; grain for, 156, 182, 189; 
grazed on the forest reserve, 14; 
grinding grain for, 161; handling 
of, 222; hauling of, 224; hay 
for, 216; herding on the range, 
145; hoof trimmer for, 204; 
Index 
kale for, 215; leading of, 223; 
lifting and carrying of, 224; 
Jinseed products for, 213; loss 
from wild animals, 149; luck 
with, 221; marketing of mutton 
stock, 147; marketing of pure- 
bred lambs, 193; marketing of 
pure-bred stock on the range, 148; 
marketing of spring lambs, 192, 
193; milk teeth in, 129; oil 
meal for, on the range, 130; oats 
for, 212; peas for, 213; panels 
for, 196; pastures for, 217; 
pastures for weanling lamhs, 192; 
permanent teeth, 129; phases of 
sheep industry, 121; pure-bred, 
marketing of, 148; pure-bred, 
on farms, 122; pure-bred, on the 
range, 122; range sheep, 121; 
Chap. X, 124; rations for winter 
fattening, 156; returns from, 
226; roots for, 214; salt for, 
147; scab, 143; selection of, for 
farm, 174; self-feeders for, 198; 
shearing for feed lot, 161; shear- 
ing of, on farm, 190; _ shears, 
blade, 207; sheds (see Shelter) ; 
shipping crates for, 198; silage 
for, 215; silo for, 216; soiling 
crops for, 217; suctulence for, 
214; suitability to various en- 
virorfments, 33; three-quarter 
bred, 169; time of breeding, 179; 
treating of stubborn ewes at 
lambing, 186; vs. cattle, 30, 49; 
water for, 183; weaning of lambs, 
192; wheat for, 212; wintering 
of ewe lambs, 183; wintering 
range sheep, 130; wool box, 207. 
Sheds (see Shelter). 
Shelter, for beef cattle, 94; for 
brood mares, 289; for colts, 
illustration, 294; for cows and 
calves, 60; for pure-bred horses, 
840; for sheep on the farm, 192, 
194, 195, 196; for sheep on the 
range, 152; for sheep in the feed 
lot, 162; for stallions, 322; for 
swine, 376, 377, 385; for work 
horses, 371; for young horses, 
