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INDEX 



Clover hay, red, for fattening stock, 

 236 

 growing stock, 235-6 

 milk cows, 237 

 work horses, 237 

 time to cut, 235 

 sweet, 242-3 

 Clover pasture and soilage, 267-8 

 alsike, 273 

 crimson, 274 



Japan, see Lespedeza pasture 

 mammoth, 273 

 red, 270-2 



bloat from, how prevented, 271 

 composition, 270-1 

 net energy value, 271 

 sweet, 273 

 white, 273 

 Clover silage, 294 

 Clover straw, 264-5 

 Coarse forage, see Roughage 

 Cocoa shells. 230 

 Coconut meal or cake, 214-5 

 Coefficients, of digestibility, 56-66 

 definition, 56 

 how determined, 56-63 

 indirect method of calculating, 60-3 



errors in, 62-3 

 not exact, 59-60 

 of crude fiber, 65-6 

 crude protein, 64 

 fat, 66 



feeds that cannot be fed alone, 

 how determined, 60-3 

 mineral matter, 63-4 

 nitrogen-free extract, 64-5 

 utilization of energy, 102-3 

 Colts, rations for, 109 



(For the value of a particular feed 

 for colts, see name of feed) 

 Combustion, heat of, 93-5 

 Commercial feeds, 223-6 



influence of, on digestibility of 



ration, 70-1 

 standards for use in buying, 224-5 

 Common salt, see Salt 



vetch, see Vetch, common 

 Composition of farm animals, 25-33 

 feedingstuffs, 1-24, Appendix 

 Table 28 



Composition of farm animals, increase 

 in body weight of farm an- 

 imals, 30-3 

 meat-producing animals, 26 

 ration as affecting its efficiency, 



306-7 

 steers, 26, 29 

 Compounding of rations, 107-12 

 Compounds, 2-3 



Concentrates, average weights of, 114 

 carbonaceous, 106 

 compared with roughages in diges- 

 tibility of : 

 crude fiber, 65 

 crude protein, 64 

 fat, 66 



nitrogen-free extract, 64-5 

 estimating weights of, 112-3 

 in rations, 112-3 



proportion of, to roughages in 

 ration as affecting efficiency 

 of gains, 307 

 valuation of, as compared with 



roughages, 332-3 

 weights of, 114 

 Condition of animal, influence of, on 

 composition of body, 26 

 digestibility, 67 

 fat content of body, 28 

 mineral content of body, 28 

 protein content of body, 30 

 water content of body, 27 

 Cooking, influence of, on digesti- 

 bility, 69 

 efficiency of ration, 310 

 Corn, 159-66 



a fattening feed, 161, 163 

 by-products, 188-93 

 composition of, 161 

 deficient in mineral matter and 



protein, 78-9, 83, 161 

 dent, 160 

 flint, 160 



for breeding stock, 164-5 

 fattening stock, 163-4 

 growing stock, 162-3 

 milk cows, 165 

 work horses, 165-6 

 forms in which fed, 161-2 

 net energy value of, 161 



