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INDEX 



Non-protein nitrogenous sub- 

 stances, effect on digesti- 

 bility, 39 



effect on protein me- 

 tabolism, 65 



effect on fat metabol- 

 ism, 68 



effect on milk produc- 

 tion, 327 



Nutrient, definition of a, 43 



material, methods of in- 

 vestigation, 44 



Nutrients, effect of, in food, 84 



Nutritive ratio, 231, 257 



Oat cleanings, 193 

 feed, 193 



grain, composition of, 182, 



185 



husks, 1 1 7 



straw, 1 7 1 

 Oats, 184 



for cows, 337, 348 



for horses, 185, 280 



stimulating principle in, 214 



substitution of maize for, 

 280 



Oil cake, adulteration of, 196 



feeding of, 196 



old and new process, 195 



meal, 195 



mills, residues from, 195 

 Omasum, 19 



Organic acids in food-stuffs, 1 5 



matter, 16 

 Osteo-malacia, 97 



Palmitic acid, 10 

 Palm-nut cake, 199 



meal, 199 



Pancreatic juice, 24 



action of, 24 



Passage of food through animal 



body, time required, 27 

 Pasture, benefit of, 298, 344 

 grasses, 160 



Pasture, importance in feeding 

 pigs, 298 



influence of, on milk, 344 

 Peas, 1 88 



Pentosans, composition of, 13 

 Pepsin in gastric juice, 23 

 Peptones, 23, 24, 59 

 Period of lactation, 310 

 Period system in experiments 



on cows, 317 



Permanent pasture grasses, 160 

 Phaseolus lunatus, 188 

 Phosphate of lime, 223 

 Phosphoric acid, deficiency, 96 



in feeding-stuffs, 98 



Phytosterin, 333 



Pig, power of digestibility, 32 



Pigs, fattening of, 269 



feeding of growing, 296 



weaning of, 297 



Plant, mineral substances in, 17 

 Poison from cotton seed, 197 



lupine plants, 165 



Poppy-seed cake, 202 

 Potash in animal body, 94 



molasses, 209 



Potato slump, 216 



Potatoes, composition of, 177 



cooking of, 1 79 



dried, 180 



feeding of, 178 



steeping of, 142 

 Predigestion of foods, 146 

 Productive ration, 58 



value of nutrients, 86 

 Protein as source of muscular 



energy, 104 



crude, 7 



equilibrium, 61 



hunger, 59 



influence upon digestibility, 

 38 



metabolism, 59 



milk production, 325 



part played in fasting by, 54 



pure, 7 

 Proteins, the, 5 

 Prussic acid, 163, 188 

 Psalterium, 19 



