596 



Feeds and Feeding. 



Calves, continued 

 oats for, 139 

 oil meal for, 155, 305 

 oleomargarine for, 306 

 pasteurized skim milk for, 303 

 per cent of nutrients stored by, 71 

 rearing, 309 



rearing for the dairy, 310 

 returns from compared with other farm 



animals, 79 



rich and poor milk for, 100 

 saccharified starch for, 306 

 salt for, 307 

 skim milk for, 202, 302 

 substitutes for milk for, 304 

 sugar for, 306 

 water for, 307 

 whey for, 304 

 whole corn for, 305 

 whole milk for, 302 



v. skim milk for, 303 

 wintering, 363 



Canada field pea, see Field pea 

 Cane molasses, see Molasses, cane 

 Cane sugar, 4 

 Capillaries, 34 

 Carbohydrates, 3 

 absorption of, 35 

 a source of muscular energy, 86 

 compared with other nutrients for pro- 



ducing work, 87 



determination in feeding stuffs, 10 

 digestion, 25 

 effects of feeding only, 55 

 energy lost in digesting, 48 

 in ripening clover, 183 



grasses, 178 



what the term embraces, 107 

 Carbon dioxid, amount in air, 2 



amount produced during 



work, 85 



danger from, in silo filling, 237 

 how taken up by plants, 2 

 produced during work, 85-6 

 the great food of plants, 2 

 Carbonic acid gas, see Carbon dioxid 

 Carrots, 191, 192 



for horses, 281 

 Casein in milk, 377, 379 

 Cassava, 198 

 for pigs, 198 



steers, 198, 359 

 Castor bean, 210 

 Catabolism, 34 

 Cattle, pasturing, 319 

 rape for, 196 



steaming roughage for, 217 

 see Steers 

 Cellulose, 4 



decomposition of, 29 

 digestion of, 26 

 Cereals, for hay, 170 



pasture, 169, 171 



Cereal by-products for dairy cows, 405 

 Cereal hay for horses, 275 

 Chaff, wheat and oat, 176 

 Chaffing hay and straw, 219, 282 



Charcoal for pigs, 561 

 Chemical regulat 



regulation of heft production in 

 body, 82 



Cherry leaves, prussic acid in wild, 209 

 Christmas lambs, see Hothouse lambs 

 Chufas, 198 



for pigs, 536 

 Chyle, 35 

 Clover, alsike, 186 



bloat from, how prevented, 186 

 combined with timothy, 167 

 crimson, 187 



Clover, alsike, continued 

 for soilage, 186 

 Japan, 187 

 mammoth, 186 

 red, 182 



development of nutrients in, 182 

 losses in curing, 184 

 methods of making hay from, 183 

 silage, 232 

 time to cut, 183 

 uses of, 185 

 yield of green, 182 

 Clover hay, crimson, dangerous to horses, 187 



for cows, 417 

 Japan, for cows, 415 

 red, for calves, 312 



cows, 185, 412, 430 



horses, 185, 279 



lambs, 471, 488 



pigs, 186, 549, 559 



sheep, 186 



steers, 186, 348, 349, 352. 



366 



rich in lime, 66, 177, 185 

 Clover pasture, for pigs, 186 



v. rape for pigs, 547 

 Coarse forage, digestibility of, 41 



withholding from horses, 275 

 ruminants, 



96,98 



Cocoanut cake for cows, 401 

 Cocoanut meal, 157 



for horses, 275 

 Cod liver oil for calves, 306 

 Coefficients of digestibility, 107, Appendix 



Table II 



Colorado, fattening sheep in, 490 

 Colostrum, 201 

 Colts, bone meal for, 204 

 daily gains of, 250 

 ground rock phosphate for, 204 

 weight at birth, 250 

 see Foals 

 Columbian Exposition, tests of dairy cows. 



420 



Comfrey, 196 

 Common salt, see Salt 

 Composition of feeding stuffs, Appendix 



Table I 

 Concentrates, 11 



feeding cows exclusively on, 96 

 sheep exclusively on, 97 

 steers exclusively on, 97 

 proper amount for dairy cows, 387 

 various classes for dairy cows, 438 

 Condimental stock foods, see Stock foods 

 Confinement of cattle, 315 

 Cooked feed, 216 

 digestibility, 41 

 digestion trials with, 217 

 for pigs, 506 



stock, 216 

 Corn, Indian, 129 



a carbonaceous feed, 134 

 analyses of, 132 

 characteristics of, 129 

 dent, characteristics of, 130 

 ear, for cows, 393 

 pigs, 505 

 steers, 334 



shrinkage in drying, 130 

 effects of thick planting, 160 

 feeding exclusively to pigs, 91 

 to horses, 267 

 to steers, 365 

 field feeding to pigs, 517 

 flint, characteristics of, 130 

 for cows, 393 

 horses, 267-9 



