Index. 



601 



Feed and care of stallion, 291 



Feed and yield of great dairy cows, 429 



Feeding, light v. heavy, for pigs, 507 



summer v. winter, for pigs, 508 

 Feeding standards, 104 

 first, 104 

 for dairy cows, Haecker's, 116 



Scandinavian, 126 

 for farm animals. 



Armsby's, 119-24 

 Kellner's, 117-19 

 Wolff's, 104-15, Appendix Table 



history of, 104 

 Feeding stuffs, 129 



coefficients of digestibility, Appendix 



Table II 



composition, Appendix Table I 

 control, 222 

 digestible nutrients in, Appendix Table 



III 



fertilizing constituents in, 242 

 mineral matter in, Appendix Table V 

 Feeding the horse, hints on, 296 

 Feed lot, counsel in, 363 



paved, 317 



Feed racks for sheep, 486 

 Feeds, Armsby's energy value of, 120 



crude protein-rich for steers, 348 

 fertilizing value of, 243 



how allowed for 



In England, 245 

 for beef calves, 309 

 breeding ewes, 477 

 carriage horses, 295 

 cows, 393, 435 

 horses, 267 

 pigs, 516, 551, 557 

 rams, 478 

 sheep, 458, 486 

 steers, 333, 365 

 trotting horses, 293 

 work horses, 295 

 Kellner's starch values, 117 

 low in fiber, digestibility of, 41 

 in lime, 67 

 in phosphorus 67, Appendix Table 



rich in lime, 67, Appendix Table V 



in phosphorus, 67 

 standards for, 224 

 true value of, for horses, 260 

 see Feed, also Feeding stuffs 

 Feed units, returns from, in Swedish test 



associations, 127 

 Scandinavian, 124-5 

 Feral swine, 511 

 Fertility, selling, in crops, 243 

 Fertilizers, composition of, 241 

 > essential elements in, 241 



see Manure 

 Fertilizing constituents in feeding stuffs, 242, 



Appendix Table III 

 Fertilizing value of feeds, retained and 



voided by animals, 245 

 Fermentation in stomach, 22, 29 

 Fiber, 10 



changed to marsh gas, 41 

 digestion of, 26 

 how determined in feeds, 10 

 in feeding stuffs, 224 

 loss of energy in digesting, 52 

 Field bean, 158 



see Bean, field 



Field pea, Canada, 157 



for horses, 270 



pigs, 527 



Field pea vine, 188 

 Filly, weight of at birth, 250 

 Fish scrap, 204 



for dairy cows, 406 



Flat turnips, see Turnips 



Flavors in milk affected by feed, 391 



Flax seed, 154 



for calves, 305 

 Flax straw, 176 

 Flesh formation, 70 

 Flesh, how formed, 28 

 Flesh meal for dairy cows, 406 

 Flesh waste, 203 

 Flock, proper size, 476 

 quarters for, 477 

 winter care, 477 

 see Sheep 

 Flour, low grade, 136 



manufacture of, 135 

 Foals, care, 288 



cow's milk for, 290 

 feed for after weaning, 291 

 raising orphan, 289 

 weaning, 290 

 weight of at birth, 250 

 yearly gain of, 251 

 see Colt 



Fodder, ensilage of, 225 

 Fodder corn, 159 

 dry, 164 

 for soilage, 163 

 v. corn silage, 227 

 v. timothy hay for cows, 412 

 see Corn forage 

 Food, cooked, digestibility of, 41, 216 



coarse, energy lost in digesting, 52 

 disposition of, in respiration study, 45 

 of horse, loss of energy in digestion, 52 

 required to maintain pigs, 501 

 taken by ox in 1 day, 44-5 

 see Feeds, also Feeding stuffs 

 Forage, coarse, digestibility, 41 



withholding from pigs, 98 



ruminants, 



96-7 



green, digestibility of, 42 

 Forage crops at South for pigs, 548 

 Force, see Work 

 Foot-pound, 252 

 Foot-ton, 252 



Frosted corn for silage. 230 

 Fuel value of food, see Energy 



Gain, by calves, 307 

 foals, 250 

 lambs, 445 

 pigs, 499, 502 

 sheep, 447 

 steers, 323, 326 



comparative, by ox, sheep, and pig, 78 

 of growing animals, 72 

 Gasoline and steam engines compared with 



animals, 88 

 Gastric juice, 20 

 Germ oil meal, 134 



for cows, 399 



Gestation period of cow, 376 

 ewe. 442 

 mare, 250 

 sow, 496 

 Glucose, 4 



disappears from muscles during work, 86 

 manufactured from corn, 133 

 stored in the muscles, 86 

 Gluten feed, 134 

 acid in, 134 

 for cows, 398 

 Gluten meal, 134 

 for cows, 398 

 for pigs, 519 

 Gluten of wheat, 135 

 Glycogen, 35 



disappears from muscles during work. 86 

 produced continuously in body tissues, 86 

 stored in the muscles, 86 



