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INDEX 



Maintenance ration, 277. 



Maltese goat, 96. 



Mangel, 300. 



Manures, 19. 



Market grades, cattle, 119; 



eggs, 357. 



Marking of animals, 253. 

 Matchem, 27. 

 Meat meal, 311. 

 Merino sheep, 75, 235. 

 Merino type, 118, 123, 203. 

 Messenger, 30. 

 Middlings, 307. - 

 Milk, 311. 

 Milk production, in inheritance, 



225. 



Milk veins, 194. 

 Milch goats, 96. 

 Millet, 291. 

 Minorca fowls, 332. 

 Mohair, 95. 

 Mule, 44. 



Mule Foot hog, 226. 

 Mutation, 227. 



Natural selection, 230. 

 Navicular disease, 156. 

 Nutritive ratio, 272. 



Oats, 293, 307. 

 O. I. C. pig, 106. 

 Oil meal, 309. 

 "Old Grannie," 56. 

 Orchard grass, 290. 

 Orpington fowls, 330. 

 Oxford Down sheep, 83. 



Palatability, 271. 



Pedigrees, ancestry in, 243; 

 chapter on, 240; bracket 

 form of, 241; line of female 

 descent pedigree, 242; merit 

 value of, 244; score card for, 

 245; selection of, 238. 



Pig (See Swine). 



Plants, composition of, 258; 

 compare with animals, 263. 



Plymouth Rock fowls, 328. 



Poland-China pig, 102. 



Pony, wild, 25; Shetland, 43; 

 type, 117. 



Poultry, dust bath for, 386; 

 eggs and incubation, 352; 

 feeding, 360; houses and 

 equipment, 374 ; judging, 

 340; organs of digestion of, 

 360; types and breeds, 325. 



Prepotency, 222. 



Price, John, 53. 



Protein, animal, 262; in food, 

 268; in plants, 259. 



Quarter-crack, 155. 



Rambouillet sheep, 78, 203. 



Rape, 299. 



Ratio, nutritive, 272. 



Rations, balanced, 279; cal- 

 culating, 281; maintenance, 

 277; poultry, 366. 



Red clover, 294. 



Red Polled cattle, 70. 



Red top, 290. 



Registration of animals, 253. 



Rhode Island Red fowls, 329. 



Ringbone, 154. 



Roaring, 151. 



Romney Marsh sheep, 94. 



Root crops, 300. 



Rothamsted Experiment Sta- 

 tion, 20. 



Roughage, 260, 288. 



Rye, 293, 309. 



Saanan goat, 97. 



Salvator, 28. 



Sanitation of stables, 315. 



Score card, for beef cattle, 178; 



carriage horse, 160; dairy 



cows, 186; draft horse, 168; 



eggs, 346; origin of, 129; 



pedigree, 245; poultry, 344; 



sheep, 201, 205; swine, 212; 



use of, 129. 



