ANALYTICAL INDEX. 



Acorns, composition, 157. 



Almond cake, composition, 158. 



American Ensilage in England, 502; 

 important statements by Prof. Augus- 

 tus Voelcker, 502, 506. 



Analyses Bones, 24 ; animal bodies, 26; 

 of fats, 23, 39 ; grasses and fodder 

 plants, 146-148, 153-157 ; by-products, 

 157, 158; ensilage and green foods, 

 22-1 ; skin, hair, horn, hoof and wool, 

 23; milk, 138, 139 ; cellulose, 39; cow 

 manure, 345, 346 ; sheep manure, 416- 

 420 ; mare's milk, 138 ; swine's milk, 

 462, 463 ; bodies of cattle, sheep and 

 swine, 26-29 ; of plants, 40, 41 ; of ash 

 in 1,000 pounds of milk, 139; of grains, 

 140 ; of cows' milk, 140, 141 ; of whey, 

 243; of condimental foods, 312-314 ; of 

 chaff and hulls, roots, tubers, grains 

 and fruits, 156, 157. 



Animals, how to feed young, 137. 



Animal bodies Analysis, 26 ; composi- 

 tion, 19, 23 ; constituents, 24. 



Albuminoids Animal and vegetable, 31, 

 33. 



Amides, 32. 



Animal heat, 72, 73. 



Alimentation, principles of, 126. 



Alsike clover and timothy, 191. 



Apples and pears, 157. 



Armsby, Dr., cattle feeding, 27, 72, 75, 

 373, 453. 



Baby beef, 249-253. 



Barley As a ration, 397, 398; bran, 

 composition, 157 ; straw, 155; sprouts, 

 158. 



Barnyard grass, composition, 147. 



Barns Importance of shelter, 84 ; effect 

 of temperature on animal growth, 84, 

 85; form of barn, 86; square, 87; 

 heighth of, 87 ; duo-decagon, sex-dec- 

 agon, 89 ; octagonal, 89, 90, 92 ; octag- 

 onal basement, fig. 8, 91, 93, 94; octag- 

 onal (circular), fig. 9, 95, 96 ; a fifty- 

 foot octagon, 103; basement walls, 106; 

 preparations for laying out a wall, 107; 

 octagonal wall, how to lay out, 107, 

 108 ; constructing boxes for wall, 108, 

 109; proportion for water-lime con- 

 crete, 110; new way of building long 

 barns, 111-113; barn for 1,000 head 

 of cattle, 113, 114; octagon, eight 

 winged, 114, 115; square-cross barn, 

 116-119 ; basement for cattle, 119, 120; 

 laying out the basement, 120-122; 

 sheep barn, 122, 123. 



Beans, analysis, 146. 



Beans and oats, 381, 382. 



Bean-meal, as a ration, 382. 



Beech-nut cake, composition, 158. 



Beef Quality of young, 253, 254 ; cost 

 of, 269-274; what age for, 247 ; grow- 

 ing cattle for, 275, 276 ; to the acre of 

 corn, 311 ; baby beef, 249 ; experi- 

 ments on, 250; law of growth accord- 

 ing to age, 256 ; the economy of young, 

 255 ; cost of production, 861, 262 ; En- 

 glish view of the cost of, 263 ; cost of 

 gain, 265, 266 ; cost of beef, 268-273 ; 

 whole cost of bullock, 274. 



Beets, fodder, sugar, 156. 



Bermuda grass, composition, 147, 151. 



Biliary ducts, 65. 



Bile, composition of, 165. 



