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CHAPTER IX. 



Feeding Dairy Cattle Selecting Dairy Cows Besides Fine Proportions they 

 must have Milking Qualities A Thoroughbred Male should always be 

 Used Size of Dairy Cows Large or Small Cows the Best The Respective 

 Dairies of Messrs. Boies, Bronson and Blodgett Food and Size of Dairy 

 Cows With Common Feed and Care With Best Feed and Care Milk 

 Ration at Eldena Tables Large Cows are more Economical Milk Pro- 

 ducersFeeding Dairy Cattle Special Feeding for Milk Experiments of 

 Feeding Heifer German Experiments The Cow as a food producer Com- 

 position of 6,000 Ibs. of Milk How Fat is Produced Variety of Food for 

 Milk English Practice Fatten Cows in Milk Value of Cow Manure- 

 Food Production American Rations for Milk Tables Water for Milch 

 Cows Pasturing Dairy Cows Variety of Grasses Extra Food to Fertilize 

 Pastures 317 



CHAPTER X. 



Horses Horse kept for his Muscle Colt Milk Ration for Colt Food for the 

 Dam No Objection to Light Work Colt should be Handled Daily Weight 

 and Growth of Foals Tables Boussingault's Experiments Exercise for 

 Colts Food for Horses Youatt's English Ration German Experiments- 

 Meadow Hay fully Digested Crude Albuminoids Non-nitrogenous Con- 

 stituentsDigestibility* of Winter Wheat Straw Concentrated Feeding 

 Stuffs Result of Experiments Standard Ration Dr. Wolff's Experi- 

 mentsRations for Light Work For Heavy Work Practical Rations- 

 Rations for Omnibus Horses Ration of all Corn Meal and Hay Grass, 

 Peas and Oats Preferred Bulky Food Beans more Concentrated than 

 Oats Should Feed One-third Beans to Two-thirds Oats Oats Contain as 

 much Bulk of Fiber as Meal when Ground Fibrous Food Necessary Pea 

 Meal and Hay Adapted for Work Corn Meal for Horses Must be Fed 

 Carefully Table of Foods Malt Sprouts as a Food Tables of Rations for 

 Horses of 1,000 pounds- Weight Stage Companies' Method of Feeding 

 Not Much Salt Used Tables of Rations of Different Lines Stable Feeding 

 during the Winter Feeding for Fast Work Colts should be Fed Well and 

 Change of Food given Often The Various Grains for Variety of Food- 

 Oats Barley Rye Millet Meal Peaa The Vetch The Colt should be 

 Handled at Frequent intervals, and should have Confidence in his Trainer, 861 



CHAPTER XL 



Sheep They must be Bred for Mutton as well as Wool The General Improve- 

 ment of Sheep in all Countries Sheep Feeding in New Jersey The Method 

 of Pushing them to Early Market Old System of Slow Growth and Late 

 Maturity Abandoned The Double Income Six Sheep Kept in Place of 

 One Cow Early Maturity Difference between Scanty and Full Feeding- 

 Selection of Sheep for Breeding Mutton should be the First Consideration, 

 Wool the Second The Best must be Selected, and the Defective Weeded 

 Out The Result of Crossing South downs and Merinos Summer Feeding 

 of Small Flocks Bakewell' s Method of Breeding Hurdle Feeding Mov- 

 able Hurdle Fence Necessary Fertilizing Land by Feeding Sheep upon it 



