INDEX 



Fat production from albuminoids, 

 112, 127, 206 



— --• from carbohy- 



drates, 113, 127, 

 197, 206 



— in plants, 8 



— — production value, 



125 



— starch equivalent, 121, 127 



— work-producing value of, 177 

 Fattening animals, 188 



— with various albuminoid 



ratios, 198 



— rations, German, 200 

 Feathers, 105 



Feeding for lean, 197 



— rations, 173 



— winter and summer, 189 

 Felspar, 31, 34 

 Fermentation of dung, 62, 211, 



222 

 — in silo, 140, 152 



Ferric oxide, 24, 27, 45 

 Fertility of soil, 38, 46 

 Fibre, digestion of, 114, 115, 145, 



147 



— energy consumed in diges- 



tion, 123 



— in foods, 180, 133, 138 

 Fish manure, 55 



Flavour of food, 168 



Flesh-formers, 112 



Fluorine, 104 



Fodder plants, 72, 78, 91, 130, 220 



— — digestibility of, 144, 



146, 160, 156 



— — feeding value, 120, 

 122, 125, 160, 163, 184, 187 



Food constituents, functions of, 



111 



— — values of, 121, 



127 



Foods, ash constituents of, 14, 108, 



136, 220 



— comparative value, 155, 



160, 163 



— composition of. 111, 130, 



220 



— digestibility of, 141, 149 



— digestible matter in, 155 



Foods, economy of, 162, 164, 167, 

 181, 189 



— equivalence of, 161 



— heat value, 119, 121, 160 



— influence on butter, 208 



— — on milk, 203 



— manurial constituents, 220 



— production value, 124, 160, 



190 



— variations in, 134, 137 



— work produced by, 184 

 Force, production of, 110, 177, 



183 

 Forest, action on the atmosphere, 6 



— produce, 14, 74, 81 



— soil, 10, 49, 82, 88 

 Formaldehyde, production of, 6 

 Fowls, digestion of, 149 



Fuel value, animal products, 119 



— — food constituents, 119 

 Fungi, 6, 11, 40, 52 

 Furfuroids, 127, 133 



Galactose, 115, 227 

 Gastric juice, 115 

 Geese, digestion of, 149 

 Gelatinoids, 105, 111 

 Germination, 16 

 Glauconite, 62 

 Gloucester cheese, 242 _ 

 Glucose, fuel value, 119 

 Glutamine, 131 

 Glycogen, 177 

 Goats, digestion of, 14^^ 

 Goat's milk, 170 

 Grass crop, 76, 91 



— composition of, 4, 73, 130, 



138, 220 



— digestibility of, 144, 146, 



150, 156 



— feeding value, 160, 168, 184, 



187, 207 



— manure, 61 



— silage, 130, 140, 152 

 Gravel, 28 



Green clover, composition of, 130 



— crops in rotation, 91 



— manuring, 24, 05, 93, 100 

 Guano, 54, 65 



Guernsey cow, 228, 229, 231, 237 

 Gypsum, 62, 65 



