Index 
Ticks, dipping for, 142, 192. 
Timothy, for calves, 61; for city 
work horses, 261; for driving or 
saddle horses, 262; for fattening 
cattle, 88; for fattening horses, 
348; for growing horses, 292; 
or stallions in breeding season, 
315; for wintering foals, 296; 
for work horses, 252, 257, 260. 
Tools for minor operations, Fig. 49, 
420. 
Top crosses, 336. 
Topography of the West, 3. 
Trimming, colt’s feet, illustration, 
294; feet of the colt, 295; feet 
of swine, 424; feet of work 
horses, 271, 
Trochar and Canula, 206. 
Troughs, for feeding sheep, 196; 
for swine, 381. 
Tusks, clipping little pigs’, 420; 
cutting boars’, 425. 
Twine for tying wools, 232. 
Two-year-old, definition, 442. 
Ulcers and wounds on swine, 419. 
Unappropriated lands in the West, 
8. 
Unsound, definition, 445. 
Values and numbers of horses and 
mules, 244. 
Veal, definition, 440. 
Ventilation for swine, 377. 
Vetch hay, for fattening cattle, 89; 
for growing horses, 291; for 
work horses, 251, 258. 
Wall-eyed, definition, 445. 
Wallowing vats for swine, 386. 
War bridle, illustration, 308; de- 
scription of, 310. 
War horses, exports of, 247; mules, 
exports of, 247. 
Washington, farm sheep of, 172; 
sheep for western, 174. 
Water, for horses, 260; for sheep, 
146, 183; for swine, 377, 380. 
Weaning, calves, 61; foals, 289; 
lambs on range, 147; lambs on 
461 
the farm, 192; pigs, 400; pure- 
bred calves, 114. 
Weanling, definition, 446. 
Weight, of cattle when marketed, 
43; of market lambs, 163, 193. 
West, the, altitude of, 4; area of, 
8; climate of, 5; definition of, 
3; description of, Chap. I; for 
hog growing, 369; rainfall of, 5; 
soil of, 4; topography of, 3. 
Western lands, classification of, 8; 
swine markets, supply, 369. 
Wether, definition, 442; feeding of, 
164. 
Wetting feed for swine, 416. 
Wheat, areas, 24; belt, horse feed- 
ing in, 259; bran (see Bran); 
for horses, 260, 261; for fattening 
cattle, 89; for fattening swine, 
409; for sheep, 212; hay for 
work horses, 256, 257; straw for 
idle horses, 254. 
Whey for fattening swine, 412. 
Whistler, definition, 445. 
Wild animals, loss of sheep from, 
149; methods of combating, 149. 
Wild hay, for calves, 61; for fatten- 
ing cattle, 88; for fattening 
lambs, 156; for range horses, 
330; for work horses, 257, 260. 
Windgalls, definition, 445. 
Windy, definition, 445. 
Winging, definition, 445. 
Wintering, calves, 61; cattle, 42; 
cattle, general discussion, 63; 
cows and calves, 60; ewes on 
farm, 182; the ewe lamb, 183; 
the foal, 296; on grass, 65; idle 
horses, 255; of range sheep, 149; 
range sheep on cottonseed and 
linseed cake, 130; range sheep 
on hay, 129; yearling colts, 298. 
Winter, management of sheep on 
range, 129; ranges, 11; ranges, 
for sheep, 126. 
Wool, American classes of, 226; 
black wool, 232; box, 207; 
branding paint for, 231; bur- 
lap bags for containing wool, 
232; carding wools, 227; dis- 
