INDEX. 



A BOMASON or rennet, 370 

 A Acidity. 331 

 Acidulated beet leaves, 103. 104 

 Ahrens, ration proposed by, for horned 



cattle, 150 



Air. amount of, required, 31 

 Albumin, 331 



effect of. on milk, 29 



production of muscular energy 



by. 54 



Albuminoids. 9, 331 

 consumption of, 52 

 determination of the nitrogen of 



the. 298, 299 

 Alcohol, utilization of molasses for the 



manufacture of, 296 

 Alfalfa, digestible nutrients of, 319, 



322 



Alimentary canal, 331 

 Alkali, 331 

 Alkaline. 331 

 Alkaloids. 331 

 Allen, Mr., on beet pulp feeding, 222 



remarks of. on silos. 223 

 Alvarado, system of surface storing of 



beet cowettes at. 167, 168 

 American cows, requirements of, as 



compared with European. 40, 41 

 Ames, Xeb., experience of, 222-226 

 Amides, content of. in soured beet 



-ttes, 162 



nutritive value of, 162 

 varied opinions respecting the 



value of. 236. 237 

 Amids. 331, 332 

 Andouard and Vezaunay. experiments 



of, 148 



Anhydrous, definition of, 332 

 Animal fattening, problem of, 87, 88 

 ration, pulp combination in the. 



7, 8 

 Animal's body, constituents of the, 



336-340 

 Animals, carbonic acid thrown out 



by, 52 

 effect of sugar on, 309 



(373) 



Animals, form, table for computing 



rations for, 319-330 

 feeding of, with blood-molasses, 



285 



increase in weight of, by feeding 



dried cossettes and molasses, 260 



influence of molasses on the organ- 



ism of, 248 



stall-fed, rations for. 6, 7 

 to be fattened, bleeding of, 11 

 varying molasses rations for, 253 

 working, ration for, 6 



theoretical considerations of 



feeding, 52 57 

 Apple pomace, digestible nutrients of, 



329, 330 

 Armsbv, Prof., on sugar beet feeding, 



80, 81 

 Ash. 332 



digestibility of, 353 

 estimation of, 299 

 Asparagin, 332 

 Assimilation, 332 



Attigny sugar factory, France, molas- 

 ses forage made at 'the, 290-292 



Austro-Hungary, increasing popular- 

 ity of molasses feeding in, 233, 234 



BACTERIA, 35 

 definition of. 332 



Barley and peas, digestible nutrients 

 " of, 319 



digestible nutrients of. 323, 324 

 Beet cossettes and the wool, 47 



filling silos with, 159, 160 

 in cattle feeding, 142 

 leaf drying, 104, 105 



loss of oxalic acid in, 108 

 feeding, 110, 111 



conclusions respecting, 



114, 125 

 early, and mistakes made 



in. 96 



objections to, 111, 112 

 fodder, soft, 102 

 keeping. 97, 98 



