INDEX 



435 



Cud, chewing the, 21 



Cutting hay and straw, see Chaffing 



Dairy by-products, 146-8 

 Dairy cows, see Cows, dairy 

 Diastase, 130 

 Digestibility, 34-8 



coefficients of, 34-6, Appendix Table II 

 depression of, 47 

 factors influencing, 45-8 

 method of determining, 34 

 of fgod by different animals, 48 ; by 

 poultry, 3^0 

 Digestible nutrient, 20 

 Digestible nutrients in feeding 



stuffs, 36-8: Appendix Table III 

 Digestion, 19-27, 29-31 



Digestion coefficients, 36; At)pendix Table II 

 Digestive tract of farm animals, 20 

 Distillers' grains, dried, 152 



for cows, 271; horses, 241; sheep, 340; 

 steers, 313 

 Distillery slop, 153 



Dried beet pulp, see Beet pulp, dried 

 Dried blood, see Blood meal 

 Dried brewers' grains, see Brewers' grains, 



dried 

 Dried distillers' grains, see Distillers' grains, 



dried 

 Dried fish, see Fish meal 

 Ducks, 393 

 Durra, 135 



Economy in feeding live stock, 106-15 

 Egg, structure and composition of, 386 

 Emmer, 131 



for cows. 269; pigs, 363; sheep, 339; 

 poultry, 398; steers, 311 

 Energy, 38-44 



available and net, 41 

 muscular, production of, 77 

 net, 41 



in feeding stuffs, 42 

 required for fattening, 70; growth, 64; 

 maintenance, 51: milk production, 

 81; work, 79, 224-5 

 of feeds, losses of. 42-4, 222 

 see Work 

 Energy values of feeds, Armsby's, 92, Api)en- 



dix Table VII 

 Enzymes, 20 

 Erepsin, 25 

 Ergot, 200 



Ether extract, see Fat 

 Ewes, breeding, feed and care of, 326-8 

 Exercise for farm animals, 61; see also 

 Dairy cows. Horses, etc. 



Farm animals, calculating rations fori 

 86115 



composition of bodies of, 18 



relative economy of, 70, 247 



see Live stock 

 Fat, 9 



digestion and absorption of. 29 



how determined in feeds, 13 



origin in body, 69 



wool, 82 

 Fattenins, 68-75 



comijosition of increase during, 68 



factors influencing, 70 



object of, 68 



ration for, 69 

 Feces, 32 

 Feed, cooking, for farm animals, 46 



effects on butter fat. 254-6 



influence on body of pig, 71-3 



Feed, continued 



preparation for farm animals, 45-7, see 

 also Horses, Cows, etc. 



regulation of sale, 154 



returns from, by various farm animals, 

 70 



soaking, 46 

 Feeding standards, . 84105 



Armsby's, 93-5; Api.endix Table VII 



Bull Emmet for lambs, 93 



Eckles' for dairy cows, 100 



Haecker's for dairy cows, 97-8 



Kellner's, 92 



Modified Wolff-Lehmann, 101-4, Appen- 

 dix Table V 



Wolff Lehmann, 84-5, 90-2; Appendix 

 Table IV 



Woll-Humphrev, 98 

 Feeding stuffs, 117-211 



composition. 814; Appendix Table I 



control, 154 



digestible nutrients in, 36 ; Appendix 

 Table III 



fertilizing constituents in, 214 6; Ap- 

 pendix Table III 



guide in purchasing, 155 



market prices not guid(' to value of, 106 



mineral matter in, 12, 55-7, 66 7 



mixed or proprietary, 153 



selecting, for economical rations, 106 11 



suitabilty of, considering in formulating 

 rations, 86 



variations in composition of, 44 



see Feed, also Feeding stuffs 

 Feed units, 95 



Fertility, buying, in purchased feeds, 215 

 Fertility, selling, in croi)S. 216 

 Fertilizing constituents in feeding stuffs, 214; 



Appendix Table III 

 Fertilizing value of feeds, recovered in 



manure, 213 

 Feterita, 135, 136 



for pigs, 364 

 Feterita fodder, 165 

 Fiber. 13 



digestion of, 24 



how determined in feeds, 13 



loss of energy in digesting, 41-3 

 Field bean, see Bean, field 

 Field pea, see Pea, field 

 Fish and fish scrap for poultrv, 399 

 Fish meal, 149 



Flax seed and by-products, 141-2 

 Flax straw, 176" 

 Flour, manufacture of, 124 



red dog, 126 

 Foals, cost of raising, 234 

 feed and care of, 232-4 

 Fodder corn, see Corn fodder and Corn 



forage 

 Food, see Feeds, also Feeding stuffs 

 Forage, coarse, see Roughage 



effect of curing and ensiling, 47 

 Forage poisoning, 200 

 Foot-ton and footpound, 221 

 Fowls, see Poultrv 

 Fruit, 198 



for horses, 246 

 Fuel value of feed, see Energy 



Gastric .iuice, 22 

 Germ oil meal, 122 



for cows, 270 

 Geese, 394 



Gestation period, see Cow, Ewe, etc. 

 Glucose, 8 



absorption of. 29 



jnanufactured from corn, 120 



