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CHAPTER VII. 



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Soiling Saving Land How Waste of Food is Caused One Acre equal to 

 Three Saving Fences Saving Food Weeds and Thistles utilized Saving 

 Manure Effect upon Health and Condition Effect of Soiling upon Milk- 

 Soiling Experiments Continuous Milk Production Effect on Meat Produc- 

 tionSoiling and Grain Feeding Combined The Great Need of Eastern 

 Farms Objections to Soiling Labor An Experiment Labor of Repairing 

 Fences Saved Cost of Labor for One Hundred Head What One Man can 

 Do Soiling Crops Winter Rye Red Clover Orchard Grass Lucerne- 

 Timothy and Large Clover Alsike, Clover and Timothy Green Oats Peas 

 and Oats Common Millet Hungarian Grass Italian Millet Vetch Fod- 

 der Corn Sorghum How to Use the Green Crops Soiling Horses Soil- 

 ing Cattle Rack for Cattle Cattle Tie Soiling Cows Soiling Sheep- 

 Portable Hurdle Fence Best Plan for Raising Lambs Soiling Extermi- 

 nates Weeds How to Introduce Soiling It should be Carefully Considered 

 -Winter Soiling Ensilage The System Tested Enables Carrying More 

 Stock Many Things in Favor Summer Growth all the Year round Silos- 

 Plan of Silo Triple Silo Building the Silo Preparing the Concrete How 

 to Build with Quicklime Progress of Ensilage in the United States- 

 Ensilage Congress Cost of Ensilage Feeding Animals Ensilage as a Com- 

 plete Ration Table of Fodder Plants Red Clover as an Ensilage Crop- 

 Ensilage Crops Winter Rye Millet Peas and Oats Timothy and Late 

 Clover Sorghum Cane Storing several Ensilage Crops together Ration 

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CHAPTER VIII. 



Cattle-FeedingHow to Feed the Young Calf Flax-seed Gruel, how made 

 Skim-milk Ration for Calf Flax-seed and Oat Meal Boiled, mixed with 

 Milk Experiments Coat of a Calf at One Year Whey Ration for the 

 Calf Prof. Voelcher's Analysis of Whey What is Needed to Build the 

 Bones Hay-tea Rations for Calves What Age for Beef Early Maturity- 

 Baby Beef Cost of a "Baby Bullock "Cost of American Baby Steer- 

 Quality of Young Beef The Economy of Young Beef Effect of Age upon 

 Gain per day Chicago Fat Stock Shows Tables Cost of Production- 

 Tables English View of Cost of Beef Fattening Oxen Cost of Gain- 

 Value of Manure of Fattening Cattle Cost of Beef Steaming the Rations 

 Whole Cost of the Bullock Growing Cattle for Beef Home-bred Cattle 

 Summer Feeding Management of Pastures Blue Grass Wire Grass- 

 Meadow Grass Meadow Fescue Sheep Fescue Orchard Grass Herds 

 Grass Sweet-scented Vernal Grass Temporary Pastures What Grasses 

 may be Used Full Feeding in Summer Corn as a Single Diet Cattle- 

 feeding in Cold WeatherWarm Stables Out Door Feedings German 

 Feeding Standard Cattle Rations Tables Rations for Milch Cow Clover 

 and Corn Rations for Fattening Cattle Waste Products in Cattle Rations- 

 Rations for Fattening Cattle Linseed and Cottonseed Cake Rations for 

 Oxen at Hard Work How to Feed the Corn Crop Mode of Cutting and 

 Handling Improvement of the Corn Ration Beef to the Acre of Corn 

 Condimental Foods Analysis Feeding on Small Farms Garden Truck 

 Farms... . 233 



