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Contents. 



Chapter Page 



XXIX. Experiments in Fattening Sheep 458 



XXX. General Care of Sheep and Lambs — Fattening — Hot-house Lambs 475 



XXXL Investigations with Swine 496 



XXXIL Value of the Various Feeding StufPs for Swine 516 



XXXIII. Management and Feed of Swine — Home Markets and Bacon 



Production 552 



APPENDIX. 



Table I. Composition of American Feeding Stuffs 565 



Table II. Digestibility of Feeding Stuffs 574 



Table III. Digestible Nutrients and Fertilizing Constituents of Feeding 



Stuffs 582 



Table IV. The Wolff-Lehmann Feeding Standards 590 



Table V. The Mineral Constituents of Feeding Stuffs 593 



Index 594 



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