LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



Pago 



Rational Feeding Plus Rational Breeding Frontispiece 



C\'oss Section of Root Hair : 2 



Stomata or Leaf Mouths 4 



Two Sources of Phosphorus 5 



Poor Cattle Often Indicate Poor Land 7 



Double Good from Soy Beans ._ 8 



"What the Fertilizing Elements Are Worth 9 



Converting Raw Material into Finished Products 10 



Hc.w an Animal Cell Divides 12 



Underside of a Leaf 14 



Starch Cells J 15 



Leaf Cells 16 



Growing Plants Contain Much Water 17 



How the Sap Currents Move 18 



Stomach of Ruminant 23 



Blood Plasma 25 



Villi Cells 26 



How the Blood Circulates Through the Body 28 



Corn in Good Shocks 29 



A Steer that Was a Poor Feeder 30 



Making Good Hay Is a Fine Art 32 



From a Grain of Wheat 34 



Cheapest Gains Are Made with Young Animals 36 



Food Consumed During Fattening Period 39 



W r hat an Animal Contains 40 



Cycle of Life 41 



Cowpeas a Rich Food 44 



Mineral Matter in Some Common Foods 46 



What Field Corn Contains -, 48 



What Corn Stover Contains 1 50 



He Had a Good Ration 52 



Nutritive Ratio of Some Common Feeding Stuffs 55 



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