VOLUMES ONE TO TWENTY-FIVE, 



69 



the formation of flesh, 229 ; the amount 

 of water in food, ib. ; experiments with 

 an ox fed on mangold, 230 ; percent- 

 age of albumen in food, 232 ; the ex- 

 periments of Mr. Morton ou the feeding 

 of pigs, 233 ; the fat ready formed in 

 ■certain vegetable substances, ih. ; eflect 

 of oil-cake in producing fat, 232 ; fatty 

 substances arc of use in fattening ani- 

 mals, 23i ; mutton suet given to fat- 

 tening diicks, ih. ; linseed-oil a substi- 

 tute for linseed-cake, ih. ; sugar in- 

 creases tallow, ih. ; the form in which 

 food is given to live stock, ih. ; masti- 

 cation, its use, ib. ; saliva, its use, ih. ; 

 food given as chafl', its advantages, ih. ; 

 chaff as suited to different animals, ih. ; 

 object of rumination, ih. ; the nutriment 

 •contained in straw, ih. ; chaff-cutting, 

 ib. ; the object of giving it to ttu'nip- 

 fed animals, 235 ; the object of giving 

 hay or straw to stall-fed animals, ih. ; 

 the use of salt in food, 236 ; formation 

 of bile, its use, ih. ; the iron contained 

 in the blood, ih. ; too large a proportion 

 of salt injurious, 237; the process of 

 nutrition, ib. ; in youth the supply 

 must be greater than the waste of the 

 body, ih. ; the life of an adult and that 

 of youth, ib. ; milk, its composition, that 

 of a woman, cow, &c., 238, see " Milk ;" 

 effect of judicious and generous treat- 

 ment of the young, 23'J ; effect of in- 

 terference with the order of nature, ih. ; 

 of feeding the young animal with 

 .skimmed milk, 2-40 ; substances added 

 to skimmed milk for young animals, ib. ; 

 cold mjurious to young animals, 241 ; 

 potatoes as the food of a growing animal, 

 242 ; young animals require exercise, 

 ib. ; the absence of light, effect of, and 

 of quietude, 244 ; the Italian mode of 

 fattening ortolans, ib. 



Food of live stock for dairy purposes, iv. 

 246. -See " Milk." 



of live stock, the last food pays best 



(Playfair), iv. 264. 



, on fattening cattle, by G. Dobito, a 



prize essay, vi. 74 ; choice of the lean 

 stock, ib. ; food, 75 ; the great points 

 are, cleanliness, warmth, and quiet, 78. 



, on stall-feeding, some experiments 



l)y J. H. Leigh, vi. 237. 



■ , comparative trials on the feeding of 



sheep, by T. E. Pawlett, vi. 368. 



of cattle in Cornwall (Karkeek), vi. 



452. 



of horses in Cornwall, vi. 454. 



, ou gorse as, by S. Elly, vi. 523. 



, the, necessary to produce a pound of 



flesh, by Dr. Lyon Playfair, vi. 560. 



Food, approximate value of, as fuel to 

 sustain animal heat, vi. 563. 



, on the feeding of stock witli pre- 

 pared food, and a description of the 

 apparatus employed, by J. Marshall, 

 vii. 391. 



, a comparison of the consumption of 



food by large and small animals (Hamp- 

 shire Down sheep), by G. Shackel, viii. 

 487. 



, on feeding horses at different seasons, 



by W. C. Spooner, ix. 264. 



, on sheep-feeding, by J. B. Lawes, 



X. 276 ; food employed, 282 ; analysis of 

 the food, 286 ; amount of food consumed 

 and increase of weight, 287 ; ditto by 

 each 100 lbs. weight of the animal, 

 289, 303, 333, 337 ; the mean weekly 

 increase of thirty sheep fed on green 

 clover and 1 lb. of oil-cake, 298 ; on the 

 effect of malted and unmalted barley, 

 305, 317, 324, 326. 



, on increasing our supplies of animal 



food, by J. C. Morton, a prize essay, x. 

 341 ; modes of doing tliis, 342 ; pro- 

 duce of grass-land, 346 ; of arable land, 

 ib. ; produce of the best Lincolnshire 

 grazing land, 347 ; root-crops, the solid 

 matters in, 357 ; produce of meat per 

 acre in difierent countries, 354; as to 

 the animals which convert the produce 

 of a farm into the most meat, 356 ; the 

 results obtained on a farm with oxen, 

 sheep, and swine, 358 ; on comfort and 

 warmth, 373. 



, on the food of pigs, xi. 601. 



, on the green crops of Somersetshire, 



and the amount of meat produced by 

 them (T. D. Acland), xi. 756. 



of farm-horses in Lincolnshire (Ac- 

 land), xii. 390 ; of cattle and pigs in 

 the same locality, ib. 



, report of experiments on the fatten- 

 ing qualities of different breeds of 

 sheep (the Hampshire and the Sussex 

 do\vns), by J. B. Lawes, xii. 414 ; on 

 swedes, oil-cake, and chaff, 416; results 

 tabulated, 417, 421 ; the average food 

 consumed to produce 100 lbs. increase 

 during twenty-six weeks, 427; produce 

 of sales of both lots, 436. 



ill effects of insufficient or improper 



food for horses, by F. Dun, xii. 513 ; or 

 excessive quantity of food, 525. 



, Colonel Macdougall, experiments 



on feeding cattle on different descrij}- 

 tions of food, xiii. 113; on mangold- 

 wurzel and beau-mtal, white carrots 

 and bean-meal, turnips grown on 

 separate fields of different qualities, ih.; 

 turnips grown with different manm-es. 



