Index. 



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Roughages, continued 



necessity of, for herbivora, 98 

 horses, 275 

 sheep, 97 

 steers, 97 

 swine, 556, 559 

 steaming for cattle, 217 

 various classes for cows, 438 

 steers, 352 

 with cotton-seed meal for steers, 354 

 Ruminants, digestibility of food by, 42, 43 

 Rutabagas, 191, 192 

 for horses,281 

 lambs, 467 

 steers, 192 

 Rye, 142 



effect on dairy products, 143 

 for cows, 394 

 hay, 169 

 horses, 270 

 pasture, 171 

 pigs, 522 

 silage, 232 

 Rye pasture injures flavor of milk, 169 

 Rye shorts injure pigs, 143 

 Rye straw, 176 



Sage brush, 199 



Saliva, action on food, 20 



amount secreted, 20 

 Salt, common, 67 



effect of excessive consumption of, 68 



on digestibility, 42 

 for calves, 307 

 for cows, 434 

 horses, 69 

 sheep, 453, 483 

 steers, 373 

 in blood, 65 



influence on digestibility, 42 

 need of. by farm animals. 69 

 withholding, from cows, 68 

 Saltbush, 199 



Salt-marsh hay for cows, 414 

 Saltpeter in corn forage, 210 

 Scandinavian feed unit system. 124 

 Scarlet clover, see Crimson clover 

 Screenings, see Wheat screenings 

 Self-feeder for sheep, 450 

 steers, 316 

 Separator skim milk, see Milk, skim 

 Serum albumin, 36 

 Serum globulin. 36 

 Shearing, effect of frequent, 457 

 Sheep, air required bv. 62 

 alfalfa hay for, 470. 471 

 annual pastures for, 473 

 barley for, 461 

 bean straw for, 471 

 Bermuda grass pasture for, 170 

 body temperature of, 80 

 bran for, 137 487 

 breeding studies of. 442 

 breed tests of, 446-7 

 buckwheat, wild, for, 463 

 care and management of. 442 



at lambing time, 479 

 clover hay for, 186 

 composition of body, 15 

 daily gain of, 447 

 danger from feeding mangels, 192 

 dipping, 488 



dressed carcass, per cent yielded by, 455 

 dried blood for, 466 

 emmer for, 143, 461 

 fattening, 458 



different ages. 451 

 in Colorado, 490 

 corn belt, 492 

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Sheep, continued 



fattening, in Great Britain, 473 

 small bands, 492 

 winter, 485 

 mature, 485 

 on tield peas, 493 



wet beet pulp, 491, 498 

 wheat screenings, 492 

 feeding, hints on. 490 

 feed racks for, 486 

 field peas for, 157 

 general care, 475 

 gestation period, 442 

 grinding grain for, 221, 487 

 increase during fattening, 76 

 investigations with, 442-57 

 length of fattening period, 488 

 meat meal for, 203, 406 

 millet for, 463 



mutton and Merino, compared, 476 

 oats for, 460 

 oat straw for, 471 

 peavine silage for, 188 

 pigeon-grass seed for, 463 

 plains, fattening, 490-3 

 proper size of flock, 476 

 protein-rich feeds for, 487 

 rape for, 196 



v. blue-grass pasture for, 469 

 regularity and quiet for, 490 

 returns compared with other farm ani- 

 mals, 79 

 rice for, 145 

 roughage for. 488 

 rutabagas for, 192 

 sagebrush for, 199 

 saltbush for, 199 

 salt consumed by. 453, 483 

 self-feeder for, 450 

 shrinkage in shipping, 455 

 silage for, 466-7 

 slaughter tests, 455 

 soiling, 448 

 sorghum hay for, 471 

 soybeans for, 156 

 stomach worms, 484 

 succulent feeds for, 488 

 sugar beets for, 466 

 unusual feeds for, 475 

 various grains for fattening, 486 

 water required by. 483 

 weight of dressed carcass, 455 



fattened, 454 

 wheat for, 460 



frosted for, 463 

 screenings for, 463 

 small for, 463 

 winter care of, 477 

 winter quarters for, 477 

 see Ewes and Lambs 

 Shelter for cows, 432 



farm animals, 80 

 pises, 508, 553 

 sheep, 452, 477 

 Shock corn, for steers, 335, 366 



value in feeding, 163 

 Shocking corn, 163 

 Shorts, 137 



for cows, 397 

 pigs. 521 

 see Middlings 

 Shotes, care and feed of, 556 



following steers, gain of, 336, 368 

 see Pigs 

 Shredding corn forage, 219 



see Corn forage 

 Shrinkage in shipping sheep, 455 

 steers, 374 

 Silage. 225-237 

 alfalfa, 181, 232 



