CONTENTS. 



PART I. PLANT GROWTH AND ANIMAL NUTRITION. 



CHAPTER. PACK. 



I. The Plant; How it Grows and Elaborates Food for 



Animals . 1 



II. Mastication, Digestion and Assimilation ..... 12 



III. Digestion, Respiration and Calorimetry ...... 26 



IV. Animal Nutrition 40 



V. The Source of Muscular Energy; Composition of Ani- 

 mals Before and After Fattening 63 



VI. Influence of Feed on the Animal Body 78 



VIL Explanation of Tables of Composition and Feeding 

 Standards Methods of Calculating Rations for 



Farm Animals, etc 97 



PART II. FEEDING STUFFS. 



VIII. Leading Cereals and Their By-products 119 



IX. Minor Cereals, Oil-bearing and Leguminous Seeds and 



Their By-products 143 



X. Indian Corn as a Forage Plant 163 



XI. The Grasses, Fresh and Cured Straw 178 



XII. Leguminous Plants for Green Forage and Hay ... 195 



XIII. Miscellaneous Feeding Stuffs 211 



XIV. Soiling Cattle Preparation of Feeding Stuffs ... 231 



XV. The Ensilage of Fodders 245 



XVI. Manurial Value of Feeding Stuffs 263 



PART III. FEEDING FARM ANIMALS. 



XVII. Investigations Concerning the Horse 271 



XVIII. Feeds for the Horse 292 



XIX. Feed and Care of the Horse 311 



XX. Calf Rearing 334 



XXI. Results of Steer-feeding Trials at the Stations ... 345 



XXII. Factors in Steer Fattening Final Results .... 364 



XXIII. Counsel in the Feed Lot 381 



XXIV. The Dairy Cow Scientific Findings 401 



