INDEX 



393 



Rye grass hay, Italian, 253-4 

 Rye grass pasture, Italian, 283 



perennial, 286 

 Rye hay, 254-5 

 Rye middlings. 203-4 

 Rye pasture, 283 

 Rye shorts, 203 

 Rye straw, 264 



Saliva, action on food, 40-41 



amount secreted, 40 

 Salivary amylase, 39-41, 52-3 

 Salivary glands, 37-8, 40 

 Salt, common, influence of, on di- 

 gestibility, 71 

 required by farm animals, 78 

 Salvage grain, 229 

 Saponification, 20 

 Savage feeding standard for dairy 



cows, 142-5, 148 

 Seeds, 157-87 



crude fiber in, 17-8 

 crude protein in, 12-3 

 fat in, 22 



leguminous, 183-6 

 mineral matter in, 8 

 nitrogen-free extract in, 15-6 

 oil-bearing, 186-7 

 water in, 5-6 

 Self-feeders, 152-6 

 for cattle, 155-6 

 hogs, 153-5 

 horses, 156 

 sheep, 156 

 Sesame seed cake, 215 

 Shallu, 182, 260 

 Shallu fodder, 260 

 Shallu stover, 262 

 Sheep 



(For the value of a particular feed 

 for sheep, see name of feed) 

 amount of feed as affecting di- 

 gestibility of rations for, 73 

 ash of feed excreted in manure by, 



323 

 composition of bodies of, 26 

 concentrates for, 112 

 digestible nutrients in feeding- 

 stuffs for, Appendix Table 

 29 



Sheep, fat in bodies of, 26, 28 



fertilizing elements in manure of, 



325 

 grinding grains for, 70, 310 

 large intestines of, 37 

 maintenance requirements of, 130 

 manure, amount excreted per year 

 by, 321 

 ash of feed excreted in, 323 

 fertilizing elements in, 325 

 nitrogen of feed excreted in, 323 

 mineral matter in bodies of, 26, 



28 

 nitrogen of feed excreted in manure 



of, 323 

 products of, per 100 lbs. digestible 



organic matter, 311 

 protein in bodies of, 26, 30 

 requirements for fattening, 136 



wool production, 149 

 roughages for, 112 



utilization of, compared with 

 other animals, 67, 312 

 self-feeders for, 156 

 small intestines of, 36 

 species of, as affecting efficiency 



of rations, 310 

 stomachs of, 35-6 

 total dry substance and digestible 

 nutrients in feedingstuffs 

 for. Appendix Table 29 

 type of, as affecting efficiency of 



rations, 313 

 water in bodies of, 26, 27 

 wool production, requirements for, 



149 

 See also Lambs 

 Shelter for farm animals, 104-5, 319 

 Shipstuff, 199 



Shoats, concentrates and roughages 

 for, 112 

 See also Hogs, Pigs 

 Shorts, see kind of shorts, as Oat 



shorts. Rye shorts, etc. 

 SUage, 287-95 



advantages of, 288-9 

 alfalfa for, 294 

 beet pulp for, 295 

 cannery refuse for, 295 

 clover for, 294 



