CONTENTS. 



PART I. PLANT GROWTH AND ANIMAL NUTRITION. 



CHAPTER P AQE 



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



II. Composition of the Animal Body Digestion Metabolism 14 



III. Digestibility Respiration Calorimetry Energy 39 



IV. Nutrition Studies The Functions of Protein, Carbohydrates, and 



Fat 53 



V. Nutrition Studies Continued 62 



VI. The Production of Heat and Work 80 



VII. Miscellaneous Studies Bearing on Nutrition Problems 90 



VIII. Feeding Standards Calculating Eations 104 



PART II. FEEDING STUFFS. 



IX. Leading Cereals and By-products 129 



X. Minor Cereals, Oil-bearing and Leguminous Seeds, and Their 



By-products 145 



XI. The Grasses, Including Indian Corn Sorghums The Smaller 



Grasses Hay-making Straw 159 



XII. Leguminous Plants for Green Forage and Hay 177 



XIII. Miscellaneous Feeding Stuffs 191 



XIV. Soilage The Preparation of Feed Stock Foods Feeding Stuffs 



Control 211 



XV. The Ensilage of Fodders 225 



XVI. Manurial Value of Feeding Stuffs 241 



PART III. FEEDING FARM ANIMALS. 



XVII. Investigations Concerning the Horse 250 



XVIII. Feeds for the Horse 267 



XIX. Feed and Care of the Horse Rations 287 



XX. Calf Rearing 302 



XXI. General Problems in Beef Production 315 



XXII. Value of the Various Feeding Stuffs for Fattening Cattle as 



Found by the Experiment Stations British Feeding Trials. 333 



XXIII. Counsel in the Feed Lot 363 



XXIV. The Dairy Cow Scientific Findings 376 



XXV. Station Tests with Feeding Stuffs for Dairy Cows 393 



XXVI. Public Tests with Pure-bred Dairy Cows Feed Required by 



Cows Cost of Producing Milk and Fat 420 



XXVII. Feed and Care of the Dairy Cow 431 



XXVIII. General Investigations in Care and Management of Sheep 442 



