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FEEDS AND FEEDING 



Plants, continued 



composition, factors influencing, 



50-2 



elements present in, 1-4 

 food of, 1-4 

 how they grow, 1-9 

 poisonous, 252-5 

 support animal life, 9 

 use of mineral matter in, 3 

 water required by, 1 

 Plant substances, how grouped, 9-12 

 Poisonous plants, 252-5 

 Pork cracklings, 186 



Pork, effect of barley on, 632; beans on, 659; 

 buckwheat on, 639; corn on, 

 621; garbage on, 641; peas on, 

 621; peanuts on, 679; peanut 

 meal on, 661; rice bran on, 

 640; skim milk on, 621; soy- 

 beans on, 621; squashes on, 678 

 Pork, soft, 621, 679 

 Potash, as a fertilizer in feeds, 273-4, 

 Appendix Table III 

 in fresh manure, 279 

 voided by farm animals, 274, 280-1 

 Potassium chlorid, feeding in place of 



salt, 68 



Potassium in blood, 64 

 Potassium iodide, cure for goitre, 68 

 Potatoes, 245 



dried, 246 



for cows, 392; horses, 316; pigs, 677 

 Potato silage for cows, 390 

 Potato, sweet, see Sweet potato 

 Poultry, returns of, compared with other 



farm animals, 90-2 

 Prairie hay, for cows, 383; horses, 311; 



sheep, 565; steers, 470, 517 

 Pregnant animals, food requirements of, 83 

 Preparation of feeds, 269-72 

 Prickly comfrey, 250 

 Prickly pear, 251-2 



for silage, 260 

 see Cacti 



Proprietary feeds, 191-3 

 Protein, 7-8, 15 



absorption of, 35 



amount in rations, adapting to local 



conditions, 147 

 a cell stimulant, 63 

 building of body protein, 28 

 complete and incomplete, 63, 80-2, 623-6 

 crude, 7 



how determined in feeds, 11 

 digestion of, 27 

 fat formed from, 88 

 in animal body, 15 

 liberal supply essential to normal growth, 



76, 80 



muscular energy from, 101-2 

 quality of, important in stock feeding, 



63, 73, 80-2, 623-6 

 replaced by amids, 63 

 required for growth, 80 



maintenance, 61-4 

 requirements for various classes of animals, 



see respective animals 

 stored in body during growth, 76-7 

 waste of, from body, 36, 61 

 Protein metabolism, 35-6, 61-4, 80-2 

 Proteoses, 22, 27 

 Protoplasm, plant, 4, 7 

 Prussic acid, plants carrying, 252 

 Ptyalin, 21 

 Pumpkins, 249 



for cows, 249; pigs, 678 

 Pumpkin seeds, 249 

 Purslane, 250 



Quarters for farm animals, see Shelter 

 Quiet, importance of, for farm animals, 75 



Ram, feed and care of, 578 

 see Sheep 



Rape, dwarf, Essex, 248 



for cattle, 248; pigs, 664-9, 673; 



sheep, 574-6 

 Rapeseed cake, 309, 373 

 Rations, 18 



balanced, 18 



limitations of, 117 

 bulkiness of, importance of, 115 

 calculating, for dairy cows, 132, 140-7, 

 395-401; fattening steers, 

 137-9; steers at rest, 118-20, 

 126-7 



complete and incomplete, 73, 117 

 digestibility of, factors influencing, 50-5 

 economical, for farm animals, 140-50 

 for various farm animals, see Feeds, 



also Horse, Cow, etc. 

 general requirements of, 114-8 

 hints on calculating, 118 

 maintenance, 18, 56-75 



economical, 49, 59 



factors affecting requirements 



for, 59-61 



for various farm animals, Appen- 

 dix Tables IV and V, 

 see also Horse, Pig, etc. 

 scanty, influence on growth, 97-100 

 standard, see Feeding standards 

 Red clover, see Clover, red 

 Red dog flour, 160 



for pigs, 655 

 Red top grass, 210 

 Regularity, importance of, for farm animals, 75, 



299, 405, 526, 591 

 Rennet, 22 

 Rennin, 22 

 Rescue grass, 215 

 Respiration apparatus, 43 

 Respiration calorimeter, 44 

 Respiration studies with ox, 43-4 

 Reticulum, 19 

 Rice, 168 



damaged, value, 169 

 red, feeding value, 169 

 returns from barrel of, 168 

 rough, for horses, 306; pigs, 640 

 Rice bran, 168 



Rice by-products and rough rice for steers, 477 

 Rice by-products for pigs, 640 

 Rice hulls, 168 

 Rice meal for calves, 426 

 Rice polish, 169 

 Rice straw, 219 

 Rickets, 73, 75, 606 

 Roads, draft required on various, 285 

 Rock phosphate, see Phosphate, rock 

 Roots and silage, relative yield and cost of, 243-4 

 Roots and tubers, 242-7 

 costly, 243, 391 



for cows, 390-2; horses, 316; pigs, 676, 

 690; sheep, 566-8; steers, 504-6 

 value of dry matter in, 242 

 versus concentrates for dairy cows, 242, 



391 

 versus corn silage, 243 



for cows, 390-2; sheep, 567; 



steers, 505 



yield of, and dry matter in, 243-4 

 Roughages, 12 



adapting proportion of roughages and 

 concentrates to local conditions, 

 148 



compared with concentrates, 48 

 digestibility of, affected by wide nutritive 



ratio, 53 



effect of storage on digestibility of, 52 

 excess injurious to horses, 310 

 for various farm animals, see Feeds 

 losses of energy in digestion of, 46-50 

 necessity of, for various farm animals, 



74,432 



steaming for cattle, 271 

 Rumen, 19 

 Ruminants, 19 



