own A New B k by 



Ai iLI PROF. W. A. HENRY 



of the Wisconsin Agricul- 

 tural Experiment Station, 



A 65O "PAGE" BOOK FO^" STOCK OWNERS. 



FEEDING 



TABLE OF CONTENTS: 



PART I. 



Plant Growth and Animal 

 Nutrition. 



The plant: how it grows and elaborates food for 



animals. 



Mastication, digestion and assimilation. 

 Digestion, respiration and calorimetry. 

 Animal nutrition. 

 The source of muscular energy; composition of 



animals before and after fattening, 

 nfluenceof feed on the animal body. 

 Explanation of tables of composition an'd feeding 



standards -methods of calculating rations for 



(arm animals, etc. 



PART II. Feeding Stuffs. 



Leading cereals and their by-products. 



Minor cereals, oil-bearing and leguminous seeds 



and their by-products. 

 Indian corn as a forage plant. 

 The grasses fresh and cured straw. 

 - 'Leguminous plants for green forage and hay. 

 Miscellaneous feeding stuffs. 

 Soiling cattle: Preparation of feeding stuffs. 

 The ensilage of fodders. 

 Manurial value of feeding stuffs. 



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PART III. Feeding Farm Animals. 



Investigations concerning the horse. 



Feeds for the horse. 



Feed and care of the horse. 



Calf-rearing 



Results of steer-feeding trials at the stations, 



Factors in steer fattening final results. 



Counsel in the feed lot. 



The dairy cow scientific findings. 



Station tests with feeding stuffs for dairy cows. 



Influence of feed on milk wide and narrow 

 rations. 



Public tests of pure bred dairy cows cost of 

 producing milk and fat in dairy, herds at vari- 

 ous experiment stations. 



Feed and care of the dairy cow. 



Investigations with sheep. 



Experiments in fattening sheep wool produc- 

 tion 



General care of sheep fattening. 



Investigations with swine. 



Value of various feeding-stuffs for pigs, 



Danish pig-feeding experiments. 



Feeding and management of swine effect -oj 

 feed on the carcass of a pig 



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