CONTENTS 



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Introduction. Live Stock and Profitable Farming 1 



Part I. — Plant Growth and Animal Nutrition 

 Chapter 



I. How Plants Grow and Build Food for Animals 5 



II. The Animal Body — Digestion — Metabolism 18 



III. Measuring' the Usefulness of Feeds 34 



IV. Maintaining- Farm Animals 50 



V. Growth and Fattening 63 



VI. Production of Work, Milk, and Wool 77 



VIL Feeding Standards — Calculating Rations 84 



VIII. Economy in Feeding Live Stock. 106 



Part II. — Feeding Stuffs 



IX. Leading Cereals and their By-products 117 



X. Minor Cereals, Oil-bearing and Leg-uminous Seeds, and their 



By-products 133 



XI. Miscellaneous Concentrates — Feeding Stuffs Control — Con- 



dimental Foods 146 



XII. Indian Corn and the Sorghums for Forage 157 



XIII. The Smaller Grasses— Straw— Hay-making 167 



XIV. Leguminous Plants for Forage 180 



XV. Eoots, Tubers, and Miscellaneous Forages 193 



XVL Silage— Soilage 202 



XVII. Manurial Value of Feeding Stuffs 212 



Part III. — ^Feeding Farm Animals 



XVIIL Feeding and Care of Horses 221 



XIX. Feeds for Horses 236 



XX. Feeding and Care of Dairy Cows 247 



XXL Feeds for the Dairy Cow 267 



XXII. Eaising Dairy Cattle 280 



XXIIL Feeding and Care of Beef Cattle 290 



XXIV. Feeds for Beef Cattle 308 



XXV. Feeding and Care of Sheep 322 



XXVI. Feeds for Sheep 336 



XXVIL Feeding and Care of Swine 347 



