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CHAPTER II. 
GESTATION, ^DISEASES AND ACCIDENTS THEREOF. 
Plural and Multiple Gestation. — Treatment During Gestation. — Birth. — Prolonged Labor. 
—Large Presentation. — Unnatural Positions of the Calf. — Flooding. — Presentation of 
After-birth. — Inversion of the Womb. — Languid Labor. — Irritability and Straining. 
■—Temporary Paralysis. — Abortion. — Isolation. — Milk Fever. — Mammitis. — Treat- 
dent of Calves. — Dysentery 248 
CHAPTER III. 
INFECTIOUS, CONTAGIOUS AND EPIDEMIC DISEASES. 
Pneumonia. — History. — Its Malignant Contagiousness. — Definition. — How the Infection 
enters the System. — How Long is a Diseased Animal Infectious. — How to Know it. 
— What to do. — Texas Fever. — IIow to Know it. — Bloody Murrain. — Its Malignant 
Character. — Preventives. — What to do. — Foot and Mouth Diseases. — Malignant 
Catarrh. — Lice. — Fouls. — Horn Ail. — Choking 261 
CHAPTER IY. 
MEDICINES AND INSTRUMENTS : WHAT TO KEEP. 
L DisteCtion. — II. Action of Medicines. — III. Medicines to be Kept, and Do6es. — IV. 
Simple and Valuable Recipes. — Y. Forms of Clysters. — VI. Infusions. — VII. Anti- 
Spa8modics. — VIII. Mucilages. — IX. Washes. — X. Poultices. — XI. Fumigations. — 
XII. Tincture for ouuds 275 
PART V. 
SHEEP 
THEIR HISTORY, BREEDS, CHARACTERISTICS, BREEDING, 
AND MANAGEMENT. 
CHAPTER I. 
ORIGIN, PRINCIPAL BREEDS AND CHARACTERISTICS. 
Cosmopolitan Nature of Sheep. — Long-Wooled Sheep. — I. Leicester. — II. Border Leices- 
ter. — III. Cotswold. — Good Qualities of Cotswolds. — Cotswolds in the West. — IV. Lin- 
coln Sheep. — V. New Oxfordshire Sheep. — VI. Middle-Wooled Sheep. — VII. Cheviot 
Sheep. — VIII. White-Faced Highland Sheep. — IX. Dorset Sheep. — X. Southdowns. , 
— XI. Hampshire Downs. — XII. Shropshire Downs. — XIII. Oxford Downs. — Fine- 
Wooled Sheep. — XIV. American Merinos. — The Fleece. — The Head. — The Body. — 
The Most Profitable Sheep. — Divisions of Wool 293 
CHAPTER II. 
BREEDING AND MANAGEMENT OF SnEEP. 
Watchfulness Necessary. — How to Breed. — Time for Breeding. — Coupling. — Keeping the 
Record. — The Management of Rams. — Training Rams. — Pasturing Sheep. — Shade in 
Pastures. — Water. — Dosing Sheep. — Fall Pasturage and Feeding. — Sheep Barns. — 
Special Winter Food. — Management of Lambs. — Docking Lambs. — Castration. — 
Weaning. — The Nursery......,,,, 313 
