598 



Feeds and Feeding. 



Cowpea vine, 188 



Cows, beef, v. dairy cows for butter fat, 423 



wintering, 317 

 Cows, dairy, 376-441 



alfalfa hay for, 180, 414, 416 



in place of concentrates, 

 415-17 



alfalfa meal for, 415 



amount of heat given off daily, 62 



annual feed requirements, 427 



apple pomace for, 195 



apple pomace silage for, 408 



apples for, 195 



barley for, 140, 394 



Bermuda hay for, 414 



bone meal for, 204 



bran for, 137, 395 



breed tests by experiment stations, 422 



buckwheat middlings for, 398 



burden of dairying, 435 



cacti for, 200 



calculating rations for, 112, 122 



care before and after calving, 433 



census, 426 



cereal by-products for, 405 



chaffing (cutting) hay for, 219 



changing milkers, 389 



cocoanut cake for, 401 



cocoanut meal for, 157 



Colantha 4th's Johanna, 429 



compared with heifers, 380 



composition of milk of various breeds, 379 



compounding rations for, 437 



concentrates and roughage for, 435, 438 



cooking feed for, 434 



corn-and-cob meal for, 393 



corn fodder for, 163, 406 



corn meal as sole concentrate for, 393 



corn plant for, 436 



corn silage for, 406 



v. corn fodder for, 227 



v. hay for, 407 



v. sugar beets for, 408 



corn stover v. clover hay for, 412 

 v. mixed hay for, 412 



cotton-seed cake, cold pressed for, 150 



cotton seed for, 150 



cotton-seed hulls for, 152, 414 



cotton-seed meal for, 151, 396, 399-401 



cowpea hay for, 418 



cowpea silage for, 417 



crimson clover hay for, 417 



dairy v. beef type, 423 



dehorning, 388 



disposition of food by, 378 



dried beet pulp for, 205, 402 



dried brewers' grains for, 141, 142, 404 



dried distillers' grains for, 403 



dried fish for, 204 



dried molasses-beet pulp for, 403 



dry feed for, 434 



ear corn for, 393 



economy of, 376 



effects of advancing lactation on milk 



yield, 380 



age on milk yield, 380 

 dehorning on milk yield, 388 

 drought on milk yield, 384 

 tuberculin testing on milk yield 



388 

 work on quality of milk, 385 



excessive and low feeding, 382 



exercise for, 432 



fall fresh, 433 



feed and care, 431 



feed and yield of great, 429 



feed for, 435 



required by for 1 year, 426 



Cows, dairy, continued 



feeding concentrates on pasture, 385 



exclusively on concentrates, 96 



fat, 383 



fish scrap for, 406 

 flesh meal for, 406 

 fodder corn v. timothy hay for, 412 

 frequency of feeding, 388, 433 



milking, 389 



generous feed and care for, 434 

 germ oil meal for, 399 

 gestation period, 376 

 gluten feed for, 398 

 gluten meal for, 398 

 good and poor producers, 424 

 great, feed and yield of, 429 

 grinding grain for, 216, 220 

 grooming, 389 



ground rock phosphate for, 204 

 hairy vetch hay for, 419 

 hay v. corn silage for, 407 

 Hegelund method of milking, 389 

 herd records, 423 

 hominy feed for, 399 

 Jacoba Irene, 429 

 Japan clover for, 415 

 Johnson grass hay for, 414 

 kafir for, 148 

 kafir meal for, 395 

 legume hay for, 436 

 legumes v. concentrates for, 415-19 

 liberal and meager feeding, 382 

 lime withheld from, 65, 383 

 linseed meal for, 399 

 loss in weight, 382 

 malt sprouts for, 142, 404 

 meadow foxtail hay for, 413 

 meat meal for, 203 

 milk and fat records, 420-7 

 milking 3 times daily, 389 

 oats for, 139, 394, 395 

 oil cakes for, 399 

 oil meal for, 155 

 order of feeding, 433 

 pasturage v. soilage for, 411 

 peavine silage for, 188 

 poor, fair, and ideal rations for, 440 

 prairie hay for, 413 

 preparation of feed for, 434 

 prickly pear for, 200 

 profitable and unprofitable, 424 

 proper amount of concentrates for, 387 

 protein rich silage for, 437 

 public tests at expositions, 420 

 pumpkins for, 195 

 rations for, when on test, 428 

 regularity and kindness in care of, 432 

 returns from, compared vrith other farm 



animals, 79 



compared with steers, 376 

 in Swedish test associations, 



127 



rice bran for, 146 

 roots for, 194, 409 



v. concentrates for, 410, 436 

 roughages for, 438 

 rutabagas for, 192 

 rye for, 143 

 rye meal for, 394 

 rye pasture for, 171 

 salt for, 434 

 saltmarsh hay for, 414 

 shelter for, 432 

 shock corn for, 163 

 shredding corn fodder for, 219 

 silage for, 226, 406-9, 436 



mixed for, 409 



