iNDEX 



Stomach, 116 



— proportion in ox, 154 



— — in pig, 194 



— — in sheep, 194 

 Stones in soil, 27, 32 



Storage of food in plants, 17 

 Straw as litter, 212 



— of crops, 13, 17, 67, 72, 75 



— composition of, 14, 72, 130, 



220 



— digestibility of, 144, 148, 156 



— energy consumed in diges- 



tion, 122 



— feeding value, 123, 158, 160, 



163, 187 



— manure value, 102, 220 



— pulp as food, 125, 126 

 Subsoil, 30, 33, 35, 87, 41 

 Sugar, digestion of, 115 



— heat-producing value, 119 



— influence on digestion, 163 



— in foods, 133, 136 



— in plants, 7, 16 



— part in nutrition, 113, 125, 



127 

 Sugar of milk, 115, 227 

 Suint, 106, 107, 202 

 Sulphate of ammonium, 65, 57, 

 65, 66, 67, 76, 81 



— of potassium, 63 

 Sulphates in rain, 21 

 Sulphocyanates, 55 

 Superphosphate, 60, 65, 68, 70 

 Swede crop, 73, 79, 98 

 Swedes, composition of, 130, 220 



— feeding value, 156, 160, 



163 



— manure value, 220 

 Symbiosis, 12 



Tan, spent, 212 



Temperature,influence on animals, 

 166, 189 



— — on plants, 5, 



85 



— of soil, 29, 87 

 Thomas' slag, 59, 65, 66, 69, 77 

 Tillage, efiects of, 27, 41, 47, 89 

 Tilth, 47 



Timber, composition of, 1, 14, 74, 



81 



Top-dressing, 66 

 Training, influence of, 17$ 

 Transpiration of water, 8, 27 

 Trees, food stored up in autumn, 



18 

 Trypsin, 115 



Tubercles on leguminosae, 11 

 Turnip crop, 73, 79, 85, 86, 94 

 Turnips, composition of, 130, 136, 

 220 



— digestibility, 130, 144 



— feeding value, 160, 163 



— manure value, 220 



— winter feeding of, 166 

 Tyrosine, 115, 131 



Urea, decomposition of, 51, 222 



— formation of, 112, 116 



— fuel value, 119 

 Urine, 165, 210, 215, 223 



Vetches, 187 



Warmth of soils, 29 



Water for animals, 165, 166 



— influence on nutrition, 165 



— relations to soil, 24, 41, 42, 



48 



— relations to vegetation, 1, 



4, 6, 8, 27, 85 

 Weeds, 8, 



Well water, nitrates in, 99 

 Weekly results during fattening, 

 193, 196 

 Welsh cow, 228 



Wheat bran, composition of, 130, 

 135, 136, 220 



— — digestibility, 144, 148 



— — feeding value, 155, 



160, 163, 208, 209 



— — manure value, 220 



— crop, 72, 75, 83, 85, 88, 94, 



98 



— grain, composition, 14, 130, 



137, 220 



— — food for sheep, 199 



— — manure value, 220 



— straw, composition, 14, 72, 



130, 220 



— — digestibility, 144, 148 



166 



