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INDEX 



Salt, common, for dairy cows, 24 

 for goats, 334 

 for poultry, 351 

 bush, 145 



bushes, digestibility of, 145 

 need of, by animals, 24 

 Salvage wheat, 170 

 Scours, calf, remedies for, 220 

 Screenings, weed seeds in, 171 

 Seed, variety and quality, influence 

 on chemical composition of feed- 

 ing stuffs, 54 

 Self-feeder for sheep, 331 

 for steers, 268 

 for swine, 312 

 Sheep, digestibility of hay and straw 



by, 63 

 effect of fattening on carcasses 



of, 321 



fattening, composition of in- 

 crease of, 321 

 feeding of, 325 

 rations for, 332 

 feeding of, 317 

 Sheep, feeding of, literature on, 335 



use of self-feeders, 331 

 husbandry, advantages of, 318 

 standard rations for, 317 

 types of, 318 



Silage and silos, literature on, 162 

 for dairy cows, 245 

 for horses, 286 

 for steers, 265 

 crops, 155 



miscellaneous, 161 

 digestion coefficients for, 68 

 summer, 97 

 Siloing process, changes in chemical 



composition during, 60 

 influence on digestibility, 68 

 Silos, advantages, 153 

 and silage, 149 

 cylindrical, capacity of, 150 

 important points in building, 



151 



structures, 153 

 types, 149 

 Skim milk, 207 



for calves, 219 

 for swine, 302 

 Smithfield Show, data for steer 



slaughtered at, 259 

 Smooth brome grass, 102 

 Soaking feed, influence on digesti- 

 bility, 67, 299 

 Soft bacon, causes, 315 

 Soil, influence on chemical composi- 

 tion of feeding stuffs, 53 



Soiling crops, 95 



composition, 96 

 for dairy cows, 244 

 succession of, 97 

 partial, 96 

 system, advantages of, 95 



disadvantages, 96 

 Sorghum, 109 



non-saccharine, 110 

 second-growth, care necessary in 



feeding, 110 

 silage, 157 

 Sorghums, 172 

 Sow, feeding of, 306 

 Soybean, 125 



meal, 202, 348 

 plant, composition of, 125 

 silage, 160 

 Soybeans, 175 

 Speltz, 172 

 Spineless cacti, 146 



literature on 147 

 Starch, 13 



Starch, factory feeds, 190 

 values, 49 



critique of, 50 



Steaming feed, influence on digesti- 

 bility, 67 

 Steapsin, 29 

 Stearin, 11 



Steer feeding, concentrates for, 266 

 literature on, 276 

 pasture for, 265 

 silage for, 265 

 use of self-feeder, 268 

 Steers, digestibility of hay and 



straw by, 63 



fattening, composition of in- 

 crease, 257 



feed required for 100 pounds 

 gains in winter and summer, 

 264 



followed by hogs, 272 

 range, feeding of, 273 

 rations for, 275 

 relation of age to weight and 



daily gain, 260 



two-year-old, fattening of, 271 

 Stock feeds, concentrated, 212 

 tonics, 212 



home-made, 213 

 Stomach worms, in sheep, 324 

 Storage, influence on chemical com- 

 position of feeding stuffs, 61 

 Stover, 129 

 Straw, buckwheat, 13Q 

 cereal, 128 



