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INDEX 



Maltose, 14 



Mangels, 133 



Manurial value of feeding stuffs, 86, 



373 



Mare, feeding of, 2$1 

 Market hay, grades, 103 

 Marsh hay, 103 

 Maysin, 9 

 Meat meal, 204 

 Melons, 141 

 Metabolism, 33 

 Milch goats, 333 

 Milk, albumen, 22 

 colostrum, 205 

 composition, 206 



with variations, 228 

 fat, 23 

 production, factors influencing, 



229 



influence of age of cows, 230 

 breed, 229 



condition of cows, 231 

 excitement, 232 

 feeding, 233 

 frequency of milking, 



232 

 grooming and exercise, 



233 



individuality, 230 

 stage of lactation 



period, 231 

 season of year, 233 

 temperature and 



weather, 232 

 requirements for, 39 

 whole, for calves, 217 

 Milk-sugar, 14 

 Millets, 111 

 Milo maize, 110, 173 

 Mineral matter, 7 



substances, influence on digesti- 

 bility, 69 

 Molasses, 192 



beet pulp, 195 

 Mono-saccharides, 14 

 Motor, hog, 298 

 Mules, feeding of, 291 

 Muscular tissues, 22 

 Myosin, 22 

 Myosinogen, 22 



Net energy, 48 



Nitrogen-free extract, 13, 18 

 Non-ruminants, 26 

 Non-saccharine sorghums, 110 

 Nucleo-proteins, 10 

 Nutritive ratio, 38, 73, 339 



Oat dust, 182 



feeds, 182 



hulls, 182 



shorts, 182 



silage, 161 



straw, composition 128 

 Oats, 166 . ->. 



and oat hulls, composition of, 

 166 



digestibility, 167 



new, 167 



Oil, addition to skim milk, for 

 calves, 220 



meals, 195 



composition, 197 

 Old-process linseed meal, swell ino- 



test for, 196 

 Olein, 11 



Orchard grass, 101 

 Oxyhaemoglobin, 21 



Pacific Coast, grasses of, 91 

 Packing-house feeds, 204* 

 Palmitin, 11 

 Pancreas, 29 

 Pancreatic juice, 29 

 Parsnips, 142 



composition of, 142 

 Pasturage, value of, 94 

 Pasture, feeding grain to cows on 94 



for dairy cows, 243 

 steers, 265 ' 

 swine, 304 



grasses, chemical composition, 



93 

 Pastures, 90 



care of, 91 



swine, 304 

 Peanut, 126 



meal, 203 



straw, 130 

 Peas, 175 



Canada field, 121 

 Pectin bodies, 15 

 Pentosans, 14 

 Pentoses, 14 

 Peptones, 10 

 Phosphate of lime, 24 

 Phytin, 180 

 Pie melons, 141 



Pigs, birth weight and gains made 

 by, 295 



fed for fattening in winter and 

 summer, 312 



feeding of, 306 



intended for breeding purposes, 

 approximate ration for, 308 



