INDEX 



379 



Dairy cows, dry roughage for, 245 

 feeding standards, 227 



table for, 241 

 influence of liberal feeding, 



236 



rations for, 247 

 succulent feeds for, 244 

 summer feeding of, 243 

 the American practical 



feeding ration for, 240 

 winter feeding of, 244 

 feeds, 205, 210 

 heifer, feeding of, 242 

 herds, improvement of, 237 

 products for calves, 217 



for swine, 302 

 Damaged wheat, 170 

 Deserted plants, 145 

 Dextrine, 14 

 Dextrose, 14 

 Diastatic ferments. 13 

 Dietrich's standard for pigs, 308 

 Digester tankage, 204 

 Digestibility of feeding stuffs, 40 



conditions affecting, 63 

 Digestion coefficients, 41, 42 



of feed, 28 



Digestive apparatus of non-rumi- 

 nants, 27 

 poultry, 336 

 ruminants, 26 

 tract of a fowl, 337 

 Di-saccharides, 14 

 Distillers' grains, 189 

 Distillery feeds, 188 

 Dried blood, 204 



Dry mash for poultry, 344, 345 * 

 Dry substance, 7 

 Dry of feeding stuffs, influence on 



digestibility, 66 

 Durra, 110, 173 



Eckles' standards for dairy cows, 



240 



Edestin, 9 

 Egyptian corn, 173 

 Elements, chemical, 5 



essential, 5 

 Emmer, 172 

 Energy, available, 48 



values, Armsby's, 74 

 Erepsin, 30 

 Ewes, feeding of, 323 



milk, composition of, 323 

 Extractives, 22 



Farm animals, composition, 19 



literature on feeding,, 220 



Farm animals, productive feeding 



of, 215 . 



colony poultry house, 340 

 horses, wintering, 288 

 Fat, 11 



influence on digestibility, 69 

 Fats, chemical energy in, 45 

 Fattening cattle, protein require- 

 ments of, 257 

 composition of increase of live 



weight, 20, 256 

 crate for poultry, 356 



poultry, 340 

 sheep, rations for, 332 

 Feed, absorption of, 31 

 coarse, 11, 12 

 components, 6 

 cooking, 298 

 digestion of, 26 



functions of, 36 

 grain feed for calves, 221 

 high- and low-protein, 11 

 influence on quality of milk, 233 



quantity of milk, 234 

 inspection, 182 



quantity of, influence on diges- 

 tibility of feeding stuffs, 65 

 requirements for production, 36 

 roughage for calves, 221 

 skim milk for calves, 220 

 soaking, 299 

 unit system, 79 



table of unit values, 372 

 standard, 80 



uses of, by animals, 34, 36 

 Feeding the boar, 305 

 calves, 220, 221 

 dairy cattle, 227 

 ewes, 323 



farm animals, literature on, 226 

 fattening sheep, 325 

 flour, dark, 181 

 for fat and for lean, 300 

 goats, 332 

 lambs, 324 

 mules, 291 

 poultry, 336 

 the ram, 323 

 sheep, 317 



the sow and the pigs, 306 

 standards for quality, 339 

 swine, 294 



Feeding standards, 37, 339 

 for beef cattle, 253 

 calves, 215 

 comparisons of, 75 

 dairy cows, 227, 239 

 growing cattle, 215 



