FEEDS AMD 

 FEEDING 



A New Book by 

 PROF. W. A. HENRY 

 of the Wisconsin Agricul- 

 tural Experiment Station. 



A 650 ~PAGE~ BOOK FOR~ STOCK OWNERS. 

 TABLE OF CONTENTS: 



PART III. Feeding Farm Animals. 



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 fa tenirig. 

 nfluenceof feed on the animal body. 

 Explanation of tables of composition and feeding 



standards -methods of calculating rations for 



farm animals, etc. 



PART II. Feeding Stuff s. 



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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Investigations concerning the horse. 



Feeds for the horse. 



Feed and care of the hor^e. 



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 sivine effect oj 

 feed on the carcass of a pig 



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