Index. 



599 



Cows, dairy, continued 



v. soilage for, 411 



skim milk for, 406 



soilage for, 210-14, 437 



v. pasturage for, 411 

 v. silage for, 411 



sorghum meal for, 395 



sorghum seed for, 147 



soybean cake for, 401 



soybean hay for, 415 



soybean meal for, 396 



soybean silage for, 419 



soybean straw for, 415 



spaying, 388 



sugar beets v. corn silage for, 408 



summer silage for, 437 



sweet potatoes for, 197 



tankage for, see Flesh meal for 



timothy hay for, 437 



v. corn fodder for, 412 



trashy feeds for, 437 



tuberculin testing, 388 



turning to pasture, 384 



unreliability of short tests, 425 



value of various grains for, 393 



variations in fat in milk, 390 



velvet bean for, 189 



water for, 434, 387 



wet and dry feed for, 389 



wet beet pulp for, 402 



wet brewers' grains for, 141 



wheat bran for, 395, 397 



wheat meal for, 394 



wheat middlings for, 137 



wheat shorts for, 397 



whey for, 406 



Yeksa Sunbeam, 429 



yield of from pasture v. soilage, 212 

 Crimson clover, see Clover, crimson 

 Crops for the silo, 231 

 Crude protein, 6 



how determined in feeds, 9 



see Protein 

 Cull beans, 158 



Cutting hay and straw, see Chaffing 

 Cylindrical silo, 238 



capacity of different sizes, 239 



Dairy and beef breeds, loose tallow from, 330 



Dairy by-products for pigs, 561 



Dairy calf, feeding, 310 



Dairy calves, see Calves, dairy 



Dairy cows, see Cows, dairy 



Dairying, the burden of, 435 



based on maternity of cow, 431 

 Darkness, see Light 

 Dehorning, effects on cows, 388 

 Diastase, 141 

 Digestibility, 39 



coefficients of, 40, 106, Appendix Table II 

 effects of work on, 254 

 general discussion of, 41 

 influence of age on, 43 

 breed on, 43 



frequency of feeding on, 43 

 starvation on, 43 

 water on, 43 

 work on, 43 



method of determining, 39 

 of coarse forage, 41 

 of cooked food, 41 

 of crude protein, 41 

 of fat, 41 



of feeds low in fiber, 41 

 of food by horse, 42, 253 

 pig, 43 



ruminants, 42 



of grasses affected by maturity, 41 

 of ground grain, 41 

 of nitrogenous foods, 42 . 



Digestible nutrients, defined, 107 

 Digestible nutrients in feeding stuffs, Ap- 

 pendix Table III 

 Digestion, 18 



coefficients explained, 107 

 heat evolved in, 52 

 in stomach, 20 



of coarse food by idle horses, 52 

 of fiber involves much work, 52 

 studies of Pawlow on, 30 

 trials with cooked feed, 217 

 horses, 253 

 sheep, 39 



work involved in, 52 

 Dipping sheep, 488 

 Distillers' grains, dried, 208 

 for cows, 208, 403 

 horses, 208, 274 

 pigs, 526 

 steers, 208, 345 

 wethers, 465 



Draft, energy expended by horses in, 259 

 Dressed carcass, composition of from farm 



animals, 15 

 yielded by pigs, 512 



sheep, 447, 455 

 steers, 323 



Dried beet pulp, see Beet pulp, dried 

 Dried blood, see Blood, dried 

 Dried brewers' grains, see Brewers' grains, 



dried 

 Dried distillers' grains, see Distillers' grains, 



dried 



Dried fish, 204 

 Drought, effects on milk, 384 

 Durra, see Milo 

 Dynamometer, 251 



Earth nut, see Peanut 

 Egyptian corn, see Milo 

 Emmer, 143 

 for cows, 395 



lambs, 461, 487 

 pigs, 524 

 steers, 338 

 Energy, 48 



available and net, 49 



expended by dairy cows, 378 



factors influencing amount appearing as 



useful work, 88 



for animal derived from sun, 80 

 for work furnished by carbohydrates, 87 

 fat, 87 

 protein, 87 



in common feeds, 50 

 pure nutrients, 50 

 urea, 48 



liberated as heat and mechanical work, 86 

 muscular, may come from protein, 85 



produced by oxidation of carbo- 

 hydrates and fat, 85 

 production, 85 

 source, 86 



net, 49 



in feeding stuffs, 50 



in feeds determines amount of work 



produced, 87 

 in pure nutrients, 50 

 part expended which is utilized in 



work, 88 

 practice, 87 



required for work, decreases with 

 practice, 87 

 factors influencing, 



87-8 



increases with 

 fatigue, 87 

 increases vrith 

 speed, 87 



