INDEX 



All-weather farming needed, 1 1 1 

 Analysis of water and dry 



matter in plants, 19 

 Arable farming on new lines, 17 



Bullocks, Rations for, 152 



Calves, Winter-green rations for 



174 



Capital — 



Economical use of, 134 

 Needed for Continuous Crop- 

 ing. 133 



Cattle- 

 New feeding standard for, 173 

 Pasturage not essential for, 22 

 Standard fattening ration for 

 young, 174 



" Collop," an Irish term for full- 

 grown beasts, 137 



Continuous cropping and dairy- 

 ing. Profitable, 135 



Continuous - cropping rations 

 eliminate most foreign feed- 

 ing stuffs, 175 



Co-operation necessary for 

 economical production, 23 



Cows — 



Autumn feeding for, 170 

 Feed dairy cows well, 77 

 Good feeding required for 



in-calf, 76 

 Standard rations for, 164-168 

 Summer rations, i6g 

 Value of green food for, 168 



Cropping — 



For a 20-acre holding. Stan- 

 dard rotation for, 20 

 Modification in rotations, 11 1 



Ensilage — 

 Covered sacks of, 56 

 Sour, Making and stacking of, 



54 

 Sweet, Wibberley system of 

 making and stacking, 54-56 

 Sweet and sour varieties, 53 

 Weather conditions favour- 

 able to making, 57 



Farm Stock, Winter food supply 



for, 23 

 Farming — 



Continuous cropping the 



common-sense method of, 18 



Forty acres. Labour required 



and rotatory cropping for, 



113 



Forty or fifty acres. Modified 

 continuous cropping for, 107 



Norfolk rotation. Shortcom- 

 ings of the, 15 



Thirty acres. Rotation for 

 cropping, 108 



Twenty acres. Rotation for 

 five years' cropping, 108 



Young stock best to buy, 140 

 Farmyard manure. Substitute 



for, 133 

 Fodder required for feeding 20 



milch cows, 170 

 Folding methods — 



For cattle, 186 



Leap-frog, 177 



Movable %vire fences, 182 



Winter, 179 

 Food — 



Balanced and unbalanced 

 rations, 154 



Maintenance dietary. The, 151 



Measuring values in, 155 



Preparation of, 176 



Productive dietary. The, 15X 



Real nutrients of, 15-2 



Requirements of farm stock, 

 172 



Starch value of, 155 



Table of Dry Fodder Con- 

 stituent values, 157-161 



Giant rape ; sowing this quick- 

 growing crop, 63 



Great Britain and Ireland the 

 Stockyards of the World, 16 



Hay crop-— 



Air-drying the hay, 46 

 Carting and stacking, 48 

 Harvesting the, 42 



183 



