INDEX. 



385 



Peat-molasses, pigs fed with, 268 

 Pea-vine straw, digestible nutrients of, 



322 



Pectic substances, 368 

 Pellet and Lelavandier on silos, 157 

 Pennsylvania Experiment Station, ex- 

 periments at the, 91, 92 

 Pentosanes, 368 

 Peptones, 368 



Petermann on chemical changes dur- 

 ing prolonged siloing, 164 

 Petry-Hecking dryer, 180, 181 

 Pfeiffer compressed air, mode for em- 

 ploying the dift'usors, 176 

 Phosphates, 368 



precipitated, addition of, to ration, 



247 

 Phosphoric acid . 368 



addition of, to cossettes, 



141, 142 



digestibility of, 352, 353 

 Pigs, feeding of, with blood molasses, 



284, 285 



molasses. 246,247 

 seed stalks and 



seed, 117 



peat-molasses to. 268 

 sugar to, 311, 312 

 opinions respecting sugar for, 312 

 ration of, 151, 152 

 Plant food taken up by mangels and 



sugar beets, 73 

 foods, 368 



absorbed by sugar beets and 



green corn, 77 



Postelt's mode of obtaining a soft fod- 

 der, 102 



Potassic salts, 370 



Potatoes and beets, comparison be- 

 tween, 88-90 

 roots, value of, for fat- 

 tening lambs. 90, 91 

 sugar beets, comparative 

 value of, in the pro- 

 duction of milk, cream 

 and butter, 88-90 

 beets and mangels, comparative 

 results obtained by feeding 

 lambs with, 91 

 digestible nutrients of. 320 

 pulp and molasses, 277 

 pulp of, 210 



results obtained by feeding a short- 

 horn cow and a Holstein heifer 

 on, 89 



Press, Bergreen, 131-134 

 cone cossette, 129-131 



Press, Klusemann, 124-127 

 Lallouette. 134-136 

 Selwig and Lange, 127-129 

 Pressed cossettes, 370 

 Presses, cossette, 122 

 Proebent's experiments in beet leaf 



drying, 109 

 Proteids, 370 

 Protein, 368-370 



amount of, decomposed from the 



body, 12, 13 

 and fat, best proportion between, 



349 



co-efficient of digestibility of, 346 

 consumption, influence of water 



upon, 36 



crude, digestibility of, 345, 346 

 digestible, amount of, needed, 30 



in molasses, 236 

 effect of on the milk glands, 29 

 mechanical equivalent of one kilo- 

 gram of, 55 

 Pulp and beets compared, 69, 70 



combination in the animal ration, 



7.8 

 feeding, successful introduction 



of, in the United States, 215 

 malady, 146 



mixing of, with molasses, 167 

 or cossette contracts, 138, 139 

 Pulps, 370 



rotten, microbes in, 146 

 saturation of, with alcoholic 



vapors, 144 

 Putrefaction, loss by, 161 



RADIATION, 370 

 Eamm. investigations of, in feed- 

 ing milch cows with liquid 

 molasses, 256, 257 

 Ration, 370 



chest measurements for weight of, 



58 



for an animal doing work, 56, 57 

 bulls, 151 

 pigs. lol. 152 

 working animals, 6 

 formula for composing a, 55, 56 

 in summer, 60 



manner of calculating a, 43-45 

 narrow, 361 

 standard, adopted, 41 

 variable, 5 

 variation in. 59, 60 

 with and without beets, average 

 dailv yield of milk, produced 

 by, 86 



