INDEX 



357 



Dairy cows, succulent feeds for, 244 

 summer feeding of, 243 

 the American practical feed- 

 ing ration for, 240 

 winter feeding of, 244 

 feeds, 205, 210 

 heifer, feeding of, 242 

 herds, improvement of, 237 

 products for calves, 217 



for swine, 302 

 Damaged wheat, 170 

 Desert plants, 145 

 Dextrine, 14 

 Dextrose, 14 

 Diastatic ferments, 13 

 Dietrich's standard for pigs, 307 

 Digester tankage, 204 

 Digestibility of feeding stuffs, 40 



conditions affecting, G3 

 Digestion coefficients, 41, 42 



of feed, 28 



Digestive apparatus of non-rumi- 

 nants, 27 

 ruminants, 26 

 Di-saccharides, 14 

 Distillers' grains, 189 

 Distillery feeds, 188 

 Dried blood, 204 

 Dry substance, 7 

 Drying of feeding stuffs, influence on 



digestibility, 66 

 Durra, 110, 173 



Eckles' standards for dairy cows, 240 

 Edestin, 9 

 Egyptian corn, 173 

 Elements, chemical, 5 



essential, 5 

 Emmer, 172 

 Energy, available, 48 



values, Armsby's, 74 

 Erepsin, 30 

 Ewes, feeding of, 323 



milk, composition of, 323 

 Extractives, 22 



Farm animals, composition, 19 



literature on feeding, 226 

 productive feeding of, 215 

 horses, wintering, 288 

 Fat, 11 



influence on digestibility, 69 

 Fats, chemical energy in, 45 

 Fattening cattle, protein require- 

 ments of, 257 

 composition of increase of live 



weight, 20, 256 

 sheep, rations for, 332 



Feed, absorption of, 31 

 components, 6 

 digestion of, 26 



functions of, 36 

 influence on quality of milk, 233 



quantity of milk, 234 

 inspection, 182 



quantity of, influence on diges- 

 tibility of feeding stuffs, 65 

 requirements for production, 36 

 unit system, 79 



table of unit values, 350 

 standard, 80 



uses of, by animals, 34, 36 

 Feeding the boar, 305 

 dairy cattle, 227 

 ewes, 323 



farm animals, literature on, 226 

 fattening sheep, 325 

 flour, dark, 181 

 for fat and for lean, 300 

 goats, 332 

 lambs, 324 

 mules, 291 

 the ram, 323 

 sheep, 317 



the sow and the pigs, 306 

 swine, 294 

 Feeding standards, 36 



for beef cattle, 253 

 calves, 215 

 comparisons of, 75 

 dairy cows, 227, 239 

 growing cattle, 215 

 horses, 277 

 limitations, 76 

 sheep, 317 

 swine, 294 



stuffs, chemical energy in, 45 

 composition of, 5 



and digestibility, 337 

 concentrated, average 



weights of, 353 

 description of, 90 

 energy values, 349 

 manurial values, 86, 351 

 methods of comparison of 



values, 83 



chemical analysis, 16 

 ready reference tables of 



composition, 344 

 relative values, 82 

 variations in chemical com- 

 position, 53 

 Fertility in feeds, 86 



retained by farm animals, 87 

 Feterita, 173 

 Fiber, 15 



