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INDEX 



Non-protein nitrogenous sub- 

 stances, effect on digesti- 

 bility, 39 



effect on protein me- 

 tabolism, 65 



effect on fat metabol- 

 ism, 68 



effect on milk produc- 

 tion, 327 



Nutrient, definition of a, 43 



— material, methods of in- 

 vestigation, 44 



Nutrients, effect of, in food, 84 



Nutritive ratio, 231, 257 



Oat cleanings, 193 



— feed, 193 



— grain, composition of, 182, 

 185 



— husks, 117 



— straw, 1 7 1 

 Oats, 184 



— for cows, 2,2,7. 34^ 



— for horses, 185, 280 



— stimulating principle in, 214 



— substitution of maize for, 

 280 



Oil cake, adulteration of, 196 



feeding of, 196 



old and new process, 195 



— meal, 195 



— mills, residues from, 195 

 Omasum, 19 



Organic acids in food-stuffs, 1 5 



— matter, 16 

 Osteo-malacia, 97 



Palmitic acid, 10 

 Palm-nut cake, 199 



meal, 199 



Pancreatic juice, 24 



action of, 24 



Passage of food through animal 



body, time required, 27 

 Pasture, benefit of, 298, 344 

 — grasses, 160 



Pasture, importance in feeding 

 pigs, 298 



— influence of, on milk, 344 

 Peas, 188 



Pentosans, composition of, 1 * 

 Pepsin in gastric juice, 23 

 Peptones, 23, 24, 59 

 Period of lactation, 310 

 Period system in experiments 



on cows, 317 

 Permanent pasture grasses, 16c 

 Phaseolus lunatus, 188 

 Phosphate of lime, 223 

 Phosphoric acid, deficiency, gt 



in feeding-stuffs, 98 



Phytosterin, 333 



Pig, power of digestibility, 32 



Pigs, fattening of, 269 



— feeding of growing, 296 



— weaning of, 297 



Plant, mineral substances in, 17 

 Poison from cotton seed, 197 



lupine plants, 165 



Poppy-seed cake, 202 

 Potash in animal body, 94 



molasses, 209 



Potato slump, 216 



Potatoes, composition of, 177 



— cooking of, 179 



— dried, 180 



— feeding of, 178 



— steeping of, 142 

 Predigestion of foods, 146 

 Productive ration, 58 



— value of nutrients, 86 

 Protein as source of muscular 



energy, 104 



— crude, 7 



— equilibrium, 61 



— hunger, 59 



— influence upon digestibility, 

 38 



metabolism, 59 



milk production, 325 



— part played in fasting by, 54 



— pure, 7 

 Proteins, the, 5 

 Prussic acid, 163, 188 

 Psalterium, 19 



