CONTENTS 



PAGE 



Introduction. Live Stock and Profitable Farming VII 



Part I. Plant Growth and Animal Nutrition 

 CHAPTER 



I. The Plant; How it Grows and Elaborates Food for Animals 1 



II. Composition of the Animal Body Digestion 'Metabolism 15 



III. Measuring the Usefulness of Feeds 37 



IV. Maintenance of Farm Animals 56 



V. Growth and Fattening 76 



VI. Production of Work, Milk, and Wool 101 



VII. Feeding Standards Calculating Rations 112 



VIII. Economy in Feeding Lave Stock 140 



Part II. Feeding Stuffs 



IX. Leading Cereals and their By-products 151 



X. Minor Cereals, Oil-bearing and Leguminous Seeds, and their By- 

 products 168 



XI. Miscellaneous Concentrates Feeding Stuffs Control Condimen- 



tal Foods 183 



XII. Indian Corn and the Sorghums for Forage 195 



XIII. The Smaller Grasses Straw Hay-making 206 



XIV. Leguminous Plants for Forage 225 



XV. Roots, Tubers, and Miscellaneous Forages 242 



XVI. Silage Soilage The Preparation of Feed 256 



XVII. Manurial Value of Feeding Stuffs 273 



Part III. Feeding Farm Animals 



XVIII. Factors Influencing the Work of the Horse 283 



XIX. Feeds for Horses 301 



XX. Feeding and Caring for Horses 319 



XXI. General Problems in Dairy Husbandry 337 



XXII. Feeds for the Dairy Cow 363 



XXIII. Feed and Care of the Dairy Cow 395 



XXIV. Cost of Milk Production Breed Comparisons Feeding Test 



Cows 410 



XXV. Raising Dairy Cattle 423 



XXVI. General Problems in Beef Production 445 



XXVII. Feeds for Beef Cattle 470 



XXVIII. Raising Beef Cattle 507 



XXIX. Counsel in the Feed Lot 521 



XXX. General Problems in Sheep Husbandry 537 



XXXI. Feeds for Sheep 550 



v 



