548 



A STUDY OF FARM AXIMALS 



Perches, 524. 



Persistence of heredity, 21. 

 Pigs- 

 care at farrowing- in hot 

 weather, 431. 



fattening, 425. 



feeding- young- breeding, 425. 

 sucklings, 424. 



food, 419. 



grouping, 430. 



marketing litters, 435. 

 Pin bones, 487. 

 Pith, wool, 324. 

 Plants 



compared with animals, 72. 



composition of, 65. 



fat in, 68. 



mineral matter in, 66. 



protein in, 67. 



source of food, 65. 

 Platform, swine feeding, 436. 

 Plymouth Rock, 462. 

 Points cut, 133. 



of the horse, 164. 



scale of, 129, 130. 

 Poland-China swine, 392, 394. 

 Poll, horse, 164. 

 Polled cattle, Red, 286. 



Hereford, 226. 



Shorthorn, 223. 

 Pork production, 418, 421. 

 Poultry 



culling, 483. 



diseases, 527. 



disqualification in judging, 

 478. 



feeding, 503. 



houses, 515. 



judge, 473, 476, 480. 



score card, 477. 



types and breeds, 459. 

 Pox, chicken, 529. 

 Prehistoric horse, 144. 

 Premiums, 50. 

 Prepotency, 22. 

 Preservation of eggs, 501. 



Prices, 60. 



Guernseys, 281. 



Holstein-Friesian, 278. 



Jerseys, 273. 

 Prizes, 446. 

 Production, beef, 255, 258. 



milk, 24, 302, 303, 306. 



pork, 418. 

 Protein, body, 70. 



in food, 77. 



in plant, 67. 

 Proteoses, 77. 



Quality in cattle, 238, 258, 290. 



in hogs, 407. 



in horses, 172. 



in milk, 304. 

 Quarter-crack, 180. 



Racks, sheep, 387. 

 Rambouillet, 337, 338. 

 Rams, feeding, care, 373. 

 Rape, 112. 

 Ratio, nutritive, 81. 

 Ration, balanced, 90. 



calculating, 93-95. 



maintenance, 87. 

 Rations 



adjustment to standard, 98. 



dairy cows, 314. 



egg production, 511. 



fattening lambs, 371. 

 fowls, 513. 



feeding fowlo, 510. 

 Record, private herd, 53. 

 Red clover, 107. 

 Red Polled cattle, 286. 

 Recltop, 103. 



Registry associations, 53. 

 Respiration calorimeter, 80. 

 Rhode Island Red, 463. 

 Ringbone, 179. 

 Roaring, 176. 

 Romney Marsh, 352. 

 Root crops, 113. 

 Rot, foot, 265. 

 Rouen duck, 469. 

 Roughage, 68, 100, 253, 311, 369. 

 Roup, 527. 

 Russian swine, 392. 

 Rutabagas, 113. 

 Rye, 106, 121. 



Saanen goat, 355. 



Saddle, 216. 



Saddle horse, American, 148. 



Salt for dairy cattle, 320. 



Scabies, 532. 



Scale of points, use, 129. 



Dorset Horn, 130. 

 Score card, 129. 



American Poultry Association, 

 477. 



bacon-type hog, 415. 



beef cattle, 234. 



carriage horse, 185. 



commercial, 481. 



dairy cows, 291. 



Delaine Merino, 363. 



draft horse, 192. 



fat hog, 404, 405. 



fowls, 479. 



