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INDEX 



care at calving time^ 232; after 

 calving," 235; drying up, 229; 

 developing long milking period, 

 233 ; human food produced by, 6 ; 

 kicking, 227 ; management when 

 dry, 230; marking, 211; number 

 of, in United States, 2 ; selection 

 of, 116, 132; results from Illinois 

 Experiment Station, 119; results 

 from Kansas Experiment Station, 

 120 ; results from Southern States, 

 122 ; results from Storrs Experi- 

 ment Station, 123 ; results from 

 Iowa Experiment Station, 124; 

 retention of after-birth in, 234 ; self- 

 sucking, treatment for, 228 ; selec- 

 tion by type, 21, 132 ; ties for, 310 ; 

 cause of variation in production, 

 117, 126; investigation at Missouri 

 Experiment Station, 127. 



Cow Test Association in Denmark, 

 146 ; in America, 148. 



Crude fiber, 275. 



Dairy farming, relation to fertility 

 of the soil, 2 ; high-priced lands 

 and, 5 ; advantages of, 2-8. 



Dairy herd, starting a, 110; keep- 

 ing free from disease, 114. 



Dairy type, 17, 26. 



Dehorning, advantages of, 210 ; 

 dehorning bulls, 172 ; use of caustic 

 potash on calves, 211. 



Devons, 105. 



Disease, prevention of, in starting 

 a herd, 114. 



Diseases of cattle, bloat, 337 ; con- 

 tagious abortion, 329 ; congestion 

 or inflammation of the udder, 331 ; 

 treatment for, 332; drenching a 

 cow, 325 ; foot rot, 336 ; pink eye, 

 335; tuberculosis, 326; garget, 

 331 ; instruments and medicines 

 needed for, 324. 



Drying up a cow, should it be done, 

 229; methods of, 229. 



Dual-purpose cattle, definition of, 

 87; adaptations of, 88, 90. 



Dutch Belted, characteristics of, 83 ; 

 origin of, 81. 



Ether extract, 276. 



Feeding, amount to feed, 260 ; bal- 

 anced rations, 267, 269 ; neces- 

 sity for feeding as individuals, 265 ; 

 overfeeding and how recognized, 

 263, 264; rules for amount to 

 feed, 267 ; relation to live weight, 

 264 ; succulent feeds, 268 ; under- 

 feeding and how detected, 261, 

 264. 



Feeding Standard, Wolff's, 277; 

 Armsby's, 280. 



Feeding stuffs, composition of, 274, 

 278 ; fertilizing constituents of 

 feeds, 3. 



Feeds, constituents of, 274 ; fer- 

 tilizing value of, 3 ; table of com- 

 position, 278. 



Flies, protection from, 214 ; species 

 of, on cattle, 215. 



Floor, material for barn, 300. 



Foot Rot, 336. 



French-Canadian Cattle, 83. 



Gluten Feed, composition of, 278; 

 characteristics as feed, 290. 



Granitoid for barn floor, 304. 



Guernsey cattle, Advanced Register 

 for, 59 ; conditions in native home 

 of, 56 ; form and characteristics 

 of, 57, 58 ; origin of, 55 ; records 

 of, 58, 60; scale of points for, 61. 



Gutters for barns, 306. 



Hay, composition of various kinds, 

 278 ; characteristics of legume hay 

 as feed, 288 ; for calves, 186. 



Heifers, age at first bulling, 209 ; 

 age to breed, 204 ; corn in ration 

 for, 207 ; development of the dairy, 

 203; milking the, 218; factors 

 influencing the size of, 208 ; in- 

 fluence of overfeeding when 

 young, 206. 



Holsteins, Advanced Register for, 

 35 ; characteristics of, 30 ; families 

 of, 35 ; origin of, 27 ; records of, 

 33, 38 ; scale of points for, 38, 39 ; 

 seven-day records, 37. 



