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GENERAL INDEX TO EOYAL AGRICULTUEAL JOURNAL. 



FOOD. 



114 ; with turnips and conked food, ih. • 

 with tnrnips and linseed, and rape- 

 cakes, 115 ; table of residts, 116. 



Food, experiments on the comparative 

 feeding of forty-six Cotswold sheep, by 

 J. B. Lawes, xiii. 179. 



, the food of cows (Ruegg), xiv. 71 ; 



in Guernsey, ih. 



, on the relative nutritive and fatten- 

 ing properties of diflerent natural and 

 artificial grasses, by J. T. Way, xiv. 

 171; of natural grasses, 170, 177, 180; 

 of artificial grasses, 177, 179, 180; 

 their Hcsh-forming principles, fatty 

 matters, and heat-producing principles, 

 ■ih. 



, agricultural chemistry, pig-feeding, 



by J. B. Lawes. xiv. 4.19 ; for meat and 

 for manure, 400 ; the food of, l)arley, 

 grains, pollard, and bran, 401 ; experi- 

 ments on the amount of increase f>b- 

 tainablo from certain foods and their 

 mixtures, 4(>'2 ; twelve dillVrent dietaries 

 formed, 400, 479, 480; tlie chemistry 



. of food, ryll ; tiie nitrogenous ])()rtion 

 of fowl, ih. ; non-nitrogenous portion fif 

 food tlie measure of the increase in 

 •weight obtained, 5'd-i ; not the nitro- 

 genous, 588 ; quality of tiie poik ob- 

 tained by feeding upon suceuhnt food, 

 cooked roots, tiic refuse of starcli- 

 works, peas, and otlier leguminous 

 seeds, flesh, fisli, and strong-tlavouncl 

 oleaginous matters, 538; ii diagram 

 showing the jn-oportions of nitrogenous 

 and non-nitrogenous food consumed 

 weekly per 100 lbs. live weiglit of tiie 

 pigs, 541 ; mineral substiinci's bene- 

 ficially taken by, 472 ; experiments 

 witli various food, 408; beans and 

 lentils. »7j. ; tlie same witii Indian meal, 

 ih. ; with bran, ih. ; witli Indian meal, 

 only, /6. ; witli l)ran and Indian meal, 

 409; non-nitrogenous food seems tlie 

 best for the animal, nitrogenous for tlie 

 quality of tiio manure, 475 ; as the 

 animal fattens his demand for nitro- 

 genous food decreases, and for non- 

 nitrogenous increases, 478 ; this justi- 

 fies the practice of decreasing the 

 supply of peas and bcaii.s, and increas- 

 ing that of barley-meal to the fatting 

 pig, ih.; experiments with barley- 

 meal, 482; barley-meal and mixtures 

 of beans, lentils, bran, and tlieir meals, 

 482, 483 ; experiments with Indian and 

 barley meals, bran, and eodfisli, 480 ; 

 increase in live weight about one-htth 

 or one-sixth of the food thus consinned, 

 491 ; decrease in the rate of consump- 

 tion of food to a given weight of 



animal as it tsittens, 497 ; analysis of 

 food consumed, 499 ; comparison of the 

 weiglit of the constituents of the food 

 consumed with the increased weight of 

 the pigs, 500 ; the weekly consumption 

 of food by the pigs, 500 ; the legu- 

 minous seeds generally contain twice 

 as much of nitrogenous compoxmds as 

 the cereal grains, 535. 



Food of live stock, on diminishing the 

 amount of roots used in fattening- 

 cattle, by C. Lawrence, xv. 488. 



, exjierinients on the comparative 



fattening qualities of ditferent breeds, 

 by J. B. Lawes, xvi. 45; Tjcicester and 

 cross-breds, ih.; the food, oil-cake, and 

 clover-ehalf, with Swedish turnips, 47; 

 increase of tlie Leicesters, 49 ; of the 

 eross-brcds, 50; tlie food consumed, 53; 

 average weekly increase, 55 ; average 

 wool per head, 58, 00 ; produce of sale 

 of, 05; general results, 71; general 

 summary of exjierinients with the 

 Hampshire and Sussex Do^tos, Cots- 

 wolds, I>eicesters, cross-bred wethers^ 

 and cross-bred ewes, 73 ; as to live 

 weight, ih. ; as to wool, ih. ; average 

 prices of meat and wool, 81 ; long- 

 wooUed sheep, especially the Cots- 

 wolds, give more gross increase for ii 

 given amount of food than the Downs 

 or crosses, 85 ; enumeration of useful 

 and practical facts relating to sheep- 

 feethiig, SO. 



, on feeding cattle on tuniips raised 



with ditferent manures, by A. Temple- 

 ton, xvi. KJS. 



— — , influence of careful and regular 

 feeding upon the growth of wool, by 

 J. AVibvon, xvi. 240. 



, on tlie efl'ect of mangold pulp and 



fenuented food on cuttle (Trehonnais),. 

 XX. 79. 



, Professor Baudement's report on 



the use of mangolds and pulp for 

 sheep-feeding, xx. 88. 



, Mr. Hibbeft's trial of mangold 



jiulp and hay for dairy cows, xx. 91. 



, Dr. Voelcker's experiments on 



feeding Cotswold slieep witli mangold 

 roots as compared witli pu]j>, xxi. 103. 



of animals, the albuininous and 



farinaceous elements should be balanced 

 in feeding stock, xvii. 50. 



, method of feeding calves (E. Bowl- 

 by), xix. 144; artificial food not recom- 

 mended for animals of mature growth, 

 145 ; food recommended for cows at 

 ditferent seasons, ih. ; food for dry cows^ 

 140; hay and straw rendered moro 

 l^alatable by steaming (Mr. Bubb), 14G- 



