Index. 



607 



Pigs, continued 



food required to maintain, 500-502 

 forage crops at South for, 548 

 gain from 1 bushel of corn, 516 

 gains from birth to maturity, 499 



droppings of steers, 336 

 gluten meal for, 519 

 grinding corn for, 216, 221, 503-6 



grain for, 216, 503 

 ground bone for, 542 

 ground rock phosphate for, 98-9 

 hairy vetch for, 189 

 home markets for pork products, 563 

 hominy feed for, 519 

 influence of feed on body, 91-6 



length of fattening period or 



gains, 509 

 kafir for, 148, 525 

 lambs-quarter seed for, 527 

 legumes, rape, and roots for, 560 

 length of intestines, 510 

 light v. heavy feeding, 507 

 linseed oil meal for, 531 

 mangels for, 191 

 meat meal for, see Tankage 

 middlings for, 558 

 milk, rich and poor, for, 100 

 milk, whole, for, 536 

 millet seed for, 149, 526 

 milo for, 525 

 mineral matter for, 561 

 number in litter, 496 

 oats for, 138, 523 

 oil meal for, 155 

 pasture for, 544 

 peanuts for, 156, 198, 530, 535 

 peas, field for, 157, 527, 558 

 pigeon-grass seed for, 527 

 pork from, see Pork 

 potatoes for, 192, 534 

 preparing corn for, 504 

 proprietary stock feeds for, 543 

 pumpkins for, 536 

 rape for, 196, 559 



v. alfalfa pasture for, 545 



v. clover pasture for, 547 

 rate of daily gain, 502 

 razorback, 511 



see Feral swine 

 red-dog flour for, 520 

 returns from, compared with other farm 



animals, 79 



rice by-products for. 526 

 rich and poor milk for, 100 

 roots for, 532, 534, 560 

 rye for, 143, 522 

 rye shorts for, 143 

 shelter for, 508, 553 



brood sows, 509 

 silage for, 551 

 skim milk for, 202, 537-9 

 v. corn for, 537 

 soaking feed for, 219, 506 

 soft pork from, see Pork, soft 

 soilage for, 548 

 sorjfhum seed for, 526 

 soybeans for, 156, 529, 558 

 soybean pasture and corn for, 547 



cowpeas for, 547 

 squash for, 536 

 sugar beets for, 532 

 summer care of, 552 

 summer v. winter feeding of, 508 

 sweet potatoes for, 198, 535 

 strength of thigh bones, 92-4 



affected by ground bone, 542 



inorganic phosphorous, 



98-9 

 tankage for, 203, 540-2, 561 



v. linseed meal for, 541 



Pigs, continued 



tuberculosis, from tuberculous steers, 513 

 thru feeding infected milk, 



513 



unweaned, gains by, 498 

 velvet bean for, 190 

 water for, 562 

 weight at birth, 496 

 wheat for, 135, 519, 558 

 wheat bran for, 521 

 wheat middlings for 520 

 wheat shorts for, 521 

 whey for, 203, 540 

 winter care of, 553 

 wintering in single-board cabins. 508 

 withholding phosphorus from, 98 

 see Hogs, Swine, and Sows 

 Plants and animals compared, 17 

 Plants, carbon dioxid, food material for, 2 

 food of, 1 



how they grow, 1, 3 

 iron in, 1 

 poisonous, 208 

 the source of animal life, 8 

 use of mineral matter in, 2 

 water in, 1 

 water required by, 2 

 Plant substances, how grouped, 8, 9 

 Pork, effects of acorns on, 197 



barley on, 140, 564 

 buckwheat on, 147, 524 

 corn on, 91-6, 514, 564 

 cull beans on, 158, 528 

 linseed meal on, 531 

 millet on, 149 

 molasses on, 533 

 oats on, 564 

 peas on, 528 

 peanut feeding on, 156 

 roots on, 514, 534 

 rye shorts on, 143 

 skim milk on, 564 

 soybeans on, 530 

 squashes on, 536 

 velvet beans on, 190 

 wheat bran on, 522 

 wheat middlings on, 558 

 Pork, soft, 514 



causes of, 514 



Potash, as a fertilizer in feeds, 241 

 in fresh excrement, 247 

 produced yearly by farm animals. 248 

 voided by farm animals, 246. 247 

 Potassium chlorid, feeding in place of salt, 



68 



Potassium in blood, 65 

 Potatoes, 191, 192 

 dried, 192 

 feeding value for horses. 281 



pigs. 534 

 Poultry, returns of. compared with other 



farm animals. 79 

 Prairie hay for cows, 413 



lambs. 470-2 

 steers. 351 



Preparation of feeds, 215 

 Preparing feed, general conclusions on, 220 

 Prickley comfrey, 196 

 Prickly pear, see Cacti, and Pear, prickly 

 Products, edible, returned by various farm 



animals, 79 



Proprietary stock foods, see Stock foods 

 Protein, 6 



absorption of, 30 

 a cell stimulant, 75 

 body, a source of muscular energy, 86 

 building of body, 28 



compared with other nutrients for pro- 

 ducing work, 87 

 crude, digestibility of, 41 



