606 



Feeds and Feeding. 



Ox, continued 



increase by in 1 day, 44-47 



see Steer 



Oxygen, breathed by ox in 1 day, 44 

 Oxygen intake increased during work, 86 



Palatability, 32 



Palmitin,5 



Pancreas, 23 



Pancreatic juice, 23 



Parsnips, 192 



Pasturage v. soilage for cows, 411 



Pasture, abuse of, 171 



advantage of feeding steers on, 321 



annual, for sheep, 473 



effects of feeding concentrates to 



cows on, 385 



on milk yield and composi- 

 tion, 384 

 for cattle, 319 



pigs, 544 



gains by steers from, 319 

 midsummer shortage of, 171 

 milk from 1 acre, 212 

 Paunch, 20,22 



see Stomach 



Pawlow, studies of, on digestion, 30 

 Pea-cannery refuse, 188 

 Pea meal, see Field pea 

 Peanut, 156, 198 

 Peanut cake, 157 

 Peanut hulls, 157 

 Peanut meal for horses, 275 

 Peanuts for pigs, 530, 535-6 

 Peanut vine hay, 190 



for steers, 354 

 Pear, prickly, 200 



for cows, 200 



steers, 200 

 silage, 232 



Peas and oats for wethers, 462 

 Peas, field, 188 



fattening sheep on, 493 

 for lambs, 470 



pigs, 558 



Peavine silage, fattening steers on, 233 

 Peavine waste, from canneries, 188 

 Pentosans, 5 



a source of muscular energy, 86 

 in corn cobs, 5 

 in dried brewers' grains, 142 

 in flax seed, 154 

 Pentose, 5 

 Pepsin, 20, 21 

 Peptones, 21, 27 



Phosphate, calcium, for farm animals, 67 

 Phosphate, ground rock, for pigs, 98-9 



useful to animals, 67 



Phosphoric acid in feeds as a fertilizer, 241 

 in fresh excrement, 247 

 produced yearly by farm ani 



mals, 248 



voided by farm animals, 246 

 Phosphorus, effect of low supply, 66 

 feeds low in, 67 

 rich in, 67 

 in bran, 136 

 in nerve cells, 65 

 inorganic, for pigs, 98-9 

 stored by calf, 71 

 withholding from pigs, 98-9 

 Physical regulation of heat production in 



body, 82 



Phytin in wheat bran, 136 

 Pigeon-grass seed for lambs, 463 



pigs, 527 

 Pigs, 496-564 

 acorns for, 197 



Pigs, continued 



administration of feed to, 562 

 air breathed by, 62 

 alfalfa hay for, 180, 549, 559 

 alfalfa pasture for, 181 



and corn for, 546 

 v. rape pasture for, 545 

 amount of water in slop for, 507 

 artichokes for, 193, 535 

 average daily gain by, 502 

 bacon production from, 563-4 

 barley for, 140, 522, 558 

 barrows v. sows, 512 

 beet pulp for, 533 

 birth weight of, 496 

 blood meal for, 542 

 body of, composition, 14 

 body temperature of, 80 

 bone ash for, 98-9 

 bran for, 137, 558 

 breed tests, 511 

 buckwheat for, 524 

 buttermilk for, 202, 539 

 calcium phosphate for, 98-9 

 calves and lambs compared, 302 

 cassava roots for, 198 

 chufas for, 198, 536 

 clover hay for, 549, 556 

 clover pasture for, 186 



v. rape pasture for, 547 

 composition of increase during fatten- 

 ing, 76 



cooking feed for, 217, 506 

 corn for, 516, 557 



gains from 1 bu. of, 516 

 gains from 100 Ibs. of, 516 

 field, for, 517 

 soft, for, 517 



corn-anfl-cob meal for, 518 

 corn meal v. barley meal for, 522 

 v. cowpeas for, 530 

 v. emmer meal for, 524 

 v. kafir for, 525 

 v. pea meal for, 528 

 v. skim milk for, 537-9 

 v. wheat middlings for, 520 

 v. wheat shorts for, 521 

 correctives for, 561 

 cotton-seed meal for, 531 



poisonous to, 153 

 cowpeas for, 158, 530, 558 

 cowpea pasture and corn for, 546 

 cow's milk, whole, for, 536 

 cull beans for, 528 

 dairy by-products for, 561 

 digestibility of food by, 43 

 dressod carcass, per cent yielded by, 512 

 dried blood v. corn for, 91-4 

 dried distillers' grains for, 526 

 droppings of corn-fed steers for, 324-336 

 early grains of, 498, 499 

 economy of young compared with lambs, 



446 



effects of addition of water to feed, 507 

 feed on teeth and skull, 510 

 lengthening fattening period, 509 

 emmer for, 524 

 exercise for young, 556 

 fattening, 557 

 feed eaten daily, 502 



for 100 Ibs. of gain, 502-3 

 feeding corn exclusively. 91 



on alfalfa pasture, 546 

 field corn to, 517 

 inorganic phosphorus to, 98-9 

 thru the dam, 500 

 field beans for. 158 

 field peas for, 157, 527, 558 

 following steers. 368 



