INDEX 



403 



Ptyalin, in saliva, 22 

 Putrefaction of food in intes- 

 tine, 87 



Q 



Quantity of food and milk 

 production, 323 



R 



Rape cake, 201 



meal, 202 



Rations, calculation of, 354 



— maintenance, 245, 248 



— production, 256 



— size of, 233 



— narrow and wide, 232 

 Red clover, 163 



Rennet in gastric juice, 23 

 Replacement of nutrients, 230 

 Respiration, increase due to 

 excess of protein, 63 



— calorimeter, 49 



— chamber, 46 



— collection of products of, 47 

 Reticulum, 19 



Rice gluten, 206 



— meal, 193 



— slump, 206 



Roasting of food-stuffs, 142 

 Roots, composition of, 173 



— feeding of, 174 



— and tubers, losses during 

 storage, 132 



Rumen, 19 



Rumination, time required for, 



34 

 Ruminants and non-protein, 66 

 Rye, 186 



— for horses, 281 



Sainfoin, 164 



Saliva, composition of, 23 



— secretion of, 1 8 



— work performed by, 22 

 Salt in animal body, 94 



— supply of, 236 



Sawdust, effect on digestion, 



86, 90 

 Seed grasses, 162 

 Separated milk, 220 

 Serradella, 165 

 Sesame cake, 198 

 Shearing of fattening animals, 



266 

 Sheep, composition of body of, 



254 



— feeding-stuffs for, 252 



— maintenance ration for, 245 

 Silage, 125 



— crops, 125 



— quantities to be fed, 128 

 Silo, character of losses in, 128 



— construction, 126 



— filling and covering, 126 

 Size of body and loss of heat, 



53 

 Skim milk, 220 

 Slicing of roots, 137 

 Soaking food, 140 

 Soda, in animal body, 94 

 Soja bean, 187 

 Solanine, 177 

 Sorghum, 163 

 Sour fodder, 125 

 preparation of, 147 



— milk, 220 



Specific effects of food on milk, 



334 

 Spurry, 346 



Stall, temperature of, 265 

 Standard rations, 392 

 Starch as food for bacteria, 37 



— energy from, no, 273 



— equivalent, 92 



— formation of fat from, 8 1 



— residues from manufacture 

 of, 204 



Steaming of food, 146 

 Stearic acid, 10 

 Stomacb of ruminant, 19 

 Straw, chopping of, 137 



— food value of cereal, 170 

 of leguminous, 171 



— treatment under pressure 

 with soda lye, 144 



