604 



Feeds and Feeding. 



Lambs, continued 



mangels v. corn silage for, 4G7 

 millet hay for, 471 

 millet seed for, 403 

 molasses-beet pulp for, 465 

 oats for, 139, 460 486 

 oat straw for, 471 

 peas and oats for, 462 

 pigeon-grass seed for, 463 

 prairie hay for, 472 

 rape for, 468 



V. blue grass for, 469 

 returns from, compared with other farm 



animals, 79 

 rich and poor milk for, 100 

 self-feed for, 450 

 shorn, fattening, 449 

 sorghum hay for, 471 

 soybeans for, 464, 487 

 teaching young, to eat, 480 

 water drank by fattening, 453 

 weaning, 481 

 weight of, at birth, 443 

 weight of fat, 454 

 wet beet pulp for, 468 

 wheat for, 460, 486 



small, for, 463 

 wheat screenings for, 464, 486 

 wild buckwheat for, 463 

 winter, see Lambs, hothouse 

 Lamb's quarter for pigs, 527 

 Lean meat, formed by ox in 1 day, 46 

 Leaves and twigs, 197 

 Legumes, 177 

 for silage, 232 

 importance in feeding, 177 

 for cows, 436 

 pigs, 560 

 steers, 366 

 in place of concentrates for cows, 415-19 

 rich in lime, 177 

 Legume hay for cows, 436 

 Legume roughages for pigs, 559 

 Legumin, 6 

 Leguminous plants for green forage and hay. 



177 

 Leguminous roughage contains lime in ex- 

 cess of phosphorus, 66 

 Levulose, 4 

 Light, 69 



absence of, favors fattening, 69 

 influence of on blood in body, 69 

 required by farm animals, 69 

 Lime, 65 



effect of deficiency in ration for cow, 65 



low supply, 66 

 feeds low in, 67 



rich in, 67, Appendix Table V 

 in legumes, 177 

 stored by calf, 71 

 withholding from cows, 383 

 see Calcium 

 Lime phosphate, see Calcium phosphate 

 Linseed cake, see Linseed meal 

 Linseed meal, 154 

 for calves, 305 

 cows, 399 

 horses, 272 

 pigs, 531 

 sheep, 465 

 steers, 344, 351 

 steers on pasture, 344 

 wethers, 465 

 new process, 154 

 old process, 154 

 value of oil in, 155 

 Linseed oil meal, see Linseed meal 

 Liver, 23 



influence of corn feeding on, 02-6 

 Load, energy expended by horse carrying, 259 



Locomotion of horses, 258 

 Loco poisoning, 208 

 Lucern, see Alfalfa 

 Lymph, 34 

 Lymphatics, 34 



JIachine, the animal as a, 88 

 Maintenance of farm animals, 73 

 Maintenance rations, 73 

 for growing steers, 101 

 mature animals, 73 



various farm animals, Appendix Tablo 

 IV 

 furnish suflScient heat for body, 74 

 protein required in, 74 

 Maintenance requirements, 73 



greater when animal is standing, 73 

 of horse, 254 



vary with size and weight, 73 

 Maize, see Corn 

 Malt, 141 



for stock, 141 

 manufacture of, 141 

 Maltase, 24 

 Mairose, 4, 24, 141 

 Malt sprouts, 142 

 for cows, 404 

 Mammoth clover, see Clover, mammoth 

 Mangels, 191 



dangerous to sheep, 192 

 for cows, 410 

 pigs, 534 

 sheep, 192, 467 

 steers, 358, 361 

 v. corn silage for fattening lambs, 467 

 Manure, 241 



barnyard, benefits the soil, 241 

 calculating amount of, 249 

 value of 1 ton from farm animals, 249 

 voided by steer from birth to maturity 



375 

 see Excrement and Fertilizers 

 Manurial value of feeds, 241 

 Manyplies, 22 

 Mare, brood, feeding, 292 



gestation period of, 250 

 see Horse 

 Mare and foal, investigations concerning, 25tt 

 Mare's milk, composition of, 251 

 Margin, see Spread 

 Marsh gas, 29, 37 

 from fiber, 41 

 Mastication, energy lost in, 51 



see Insalivation 

 Meadow foxtail hay for cows, 413 

 Meat, marbling of, 76 

 Meat meal, 203 

 for sheep, 466 

 see Tankage 

 Meat scrap, made into bread, 203 

 Metabolism, 33, 34 

 Middlings, wheat, 137 

 for horses, 271 



pigs, 558 

 uses of, 138 

 see Shorts 

 Milch cows, see Cows 

 Milk, 201 



affected by drought, 384 



turning to pasture, 384 

 work, 385 

 ash in, 202 

 bitter, 391 



color of, affected by feed, 391 

 composition of, 379 

 cow's, for calves, 302 

 foals, 290 

 lambs, 445 

 pigs, 536 



