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INDEX 



Maintenance ration, 129 

 Maintenance requirements of farm 



animals, 129-30 

 Maize, see Corn 

 Maltase, 41 



action of, on maltose, 41, 45, 46, 

 53 

 Maltose, 14 



action of maltase on, 41, 45, 46, 53 

 formed by action of saliva on 

 starch, 40 

 Malt sprouts, 202 

 Malt sugar, see Maltose 

 Mammoth clover, see Clover, mam- 

 moth 

 Mangels, 297-8 

 Mangelwiarzels, 297-8 

 Manure, amounts voided by farm 

 animals per year, 321 

 ash of feed excreted in, by farm 



animals, 322-3 

 barnyard, benefits soil, 320-1 

 care of, to prevent loss, 327 

 factors affecting value of, 324-7 

 fertilizing elements in, 325 

 influence of age of animal on value 

 of, 324 

 feeds of ration on, 324 

 fermentation on, 326 

 leaching on, 326 

 species of animal on, 324-5 

 losses, 325-6 



nitrogen of feed excreted in, by 

 farm animals, 322-3 

 Manurial value of feedingstuffs, 



327-9 

 Manyplies, see Omasum 

 Marbling of meat, 31, 32 

 Mare, see Horses 

 Mastication, 40, 41 

 energy lost in, 99 

 Meadow fescue pasture, 286 

 Measurement of grain, 113 

 Meat, marbling of, 31, 32 

 Meat meal, 216-8 

 Meat scraps, 219 

 Metabolism, 76-7 

 Metabolizable energy, 95-8 

 uses in animal body, 97-8 

 Methane, 43, 54, 95 



Middlings, see kind of middlings as 

 Oat middlings. Wheat mid- 

 dlings, etc. 

 Milch cows, see Cows, dairy 

 Milk, action, of rennin on, 42 



amount produced per 100 lbs. of 

 digestible organic matter, 

 311 

 composition of, 139 

 crude protein in, 13 

 fat in, 22 



mineral matter in, 8 

 nitrogen-free extract in, 16 

 skim, 229 

 water in, 5 

 Milk cows, see Cows, dairy 

 Milk production, 139-49 



Eckles feeding standard for, 147-8 

 Haecker feeding standard for, 



140-2, 148 

 Henry-Morrison feeding standard 



for. Appendix Table 33 

 Savage feeding standard for, 142-5, 



148 

 Wolff-Lehmann feeding standard 



for. Appendix Table 32 

 WoU-Humphrey feeding standard 

 for, 145-6, 148 

 Milk products, crude protein in, 13 

 fat in, 22 



mineral matter in, 8 

 nitrogen-free extract in, 16 

 water in, 5 

 Milk sugar, see Lactose 

 Millet, 183 

 Millet hay, 248-9 

 Millet pasture, 281 

 silage, 281 

 straw, 264 

 Milo maize, 182, 258-60 

 Milo maize fodder, 258-60 

 Milo maize silage, 294-5 

 Milo maize stover, 262 

 Mineral matter or ash, absorption 

 of, 49, 51 

 digestibility of, 63^ 

 excretion of, from animal body, 



77-8 

 functions of, in animal body, 77^ 

 80 



