400 



INDEX 



Food fat, influence upon body 



fat, 76 

 influence upon secretion 



of milk, 321 

 Food for milch cattle, 338 



— preparation for pigs, 305 



— nutrients, 43, 83 



Foods, utilisation of complete, 



82 

 Food-stuffs, effect of injurious, 



338 



— that damage milk, 346 



— that improve milk, 347 

 Frequent milking, effect of, 313 

 Fruit sugar (see Levulose) 

 Full-value feeding-stuffs, 90 



Gaseous products formed dur- 

 ing digestion, 25 

 Gastric digestion, 23 

 Gastric juice, 23 

 Gelatine as food, 61 

 Glucose, 14 

 Glutamine, 8 

 Gluten feed, 206 

 Glycerine, 10, 11 

 Grain, composition of, 180 



— falsification of ground, 184 



— influence of soil and manur- 

 ing, 183 



— losses on storage, 131 



— sprouting of, 182 

 Grape sugar (see Glucose) 

 Grass, influence of age, 150 

 Green food, care in use of, 158 



— maize, 162 

 Grinding grain, 1 38 



Group system in experiments 



on cows, 319 

 Growth of wool, 249 



H 



Hay, 150, 161 



Hay-making, 122 



Heat generated in fattening, 265 



— loss of body, 52 



— values, 48 



Heating water for animals, 103 



Hemp cake, 203 

 Henneberg's number, 65 

 Homco, or hominy feeding 



meal, 194 

 Hordenin, 214 

 Horse chestnuts, 190 



— inferior digestive power, 3 1 

 Horses, feeding of, 275 



— maize for, 280 



— oats for, 280 

 Hydrochloric acid in gastric 



juice, 23 

 heated with straw, 144 



Incarnate clover, 164 

 Incrusting material, 13, 14, 144 

 Indian corn (see Maize) 

 Insufficient feeding, 55 

 Internal work of body, no 

 Intestinal juice, 24 

 Intestine, bacteria in, 24 

 Investigations in groups, 240, 



319 



periods, 240, 317 



Iron in food, 98 



Java bean, poison in, 188 



K 



Kidney vetch, 164 

 Kohl-rabi, 176 

 — leaves, 167 



Labour, hard, and nitrogen ex- 

 cretion, 105 



Lactation, period of, 310 



Lactic acid, action on digesti- 

 bility, 39 



and fat, 8 1 



in digestion, 25 



in silage, 1 27 



Lactose, 14 



Lambs, feeding of, 294 



— weaning of, 294 



Leaves and twigs as fodder, 168 



Lecithine, 8, 98 



