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FEEDING ANIMALS. 



Bladder, 74. 



Blood, composition, 20, 21. 



Blue grass, composition, 147, 153. 



Blue joint grass, 147. 



Bone, composition, 23, 24. 



Breeding-sows, care of, 461-463. 



Brewers' grains, 163. 



Bronchi, 70. 



Brown hay, 154. 



Bruises, treatment for, 498. 



Buckwheat bran, composition, 157. 



Bulky food for horses, 380-384. 



By-products as food, 157, 158. 



Calf Composition of, 26 ; young, how 

 to feed it, 234, 235 ; skim -milk ration, 

 236-240 ; cost at one year, 241, 242 ; 

 whey ration for calf, 242-246 ; hay-tea 

 ration, 246, 247 ; baby beef, 249-253 ; 

 quality of young beef, 253, 254 ; econ- 

 omy of young beef, 255-257. 



California brown grass, analysis, 147. 



Carcass Constituents, 28; composition, 

 29 ; proportion of various parts, 27. 



Carbon, oxidation of, 42, 43; excreted,76. 



Curbo-hydrates, 34; analysis, 39. 



Care of breeding- sows, 461-463. 



Carrots, composition, 156. 



Cattle Number and value, 13; propor- 

 tion of parts, 27. 



Cattle Feeding, 233, 234; how to feed 

 the young calf, 234, 235; skim-milk 

 ration for calf, 236-240; cost of calf at 

 one year, 241, 242; whey ration for 

 calf, with table, 242-246 ; hay-tea ra- 

 tions for calves, 246. 247; what age 

 for beef, 247, 248 ; baby beef, 249-253 ; 

 quality of young beef, 253, 254 ; econ- 

 omy of young beef, 255-257 ; experi- 

 ments of raising calves on skim-milk, 

 238-240 ; method of feeding flax-seed, 

 234 ; its value, 236. 



Cattle Grown for beef, 275, 276 ; home- 

 bred, 276, 277 ; summer feeding, 277 ; 

 full feeding in summer, 283-286 ; full 

 feeding in cold weather, 287, 288 ; out- 

 door feeding, 288-291. 



Cattle Rations German standard, 292, 

 293 ; waste products in, 299-301. 



Cattle-Rack, 199 ; cost of beef, 260. 



Cellulose, 35; digestibility, 36. 



Chestnuts, 157. 



Chicago fat-stock show, tables, 258, 259. 



Chinese oil bean, 157. 



Cholera, hog, 462. 



Circulation, 67. 



Clover, as an ensilage crop, 225, 226. 



Clover and corn, as a ration, 297, 298; 

 analysis, 146, 153; white, 153; Swedish, 

 153. 



Cob-meal For pigs, 478, 474 ; experi- 

 ments in feeding, 473, 474. 



Coecum, horse, 62. 



Cold, effect upon secretion of milk, 84 ; 

 upon fattening cattle, 85, 86, 287. 



Colic, treatment for, 500. 



Collier's, Dr., table of analyses, 146-148. 



Colon, 62. 



Colt, 362 ; milk ration for, 363. 365, 395 ; 

 flaxseed as part of ration, 365, 396, 397; 

 sweet foods, 364 ; change of food for, 

 399 ; exercise for, 370, 371 ; weight and 

 growth of foals, 367, 368 ; cost of 

 growth, 368-370; handling of, 367, 371, 

 399. 



Composition of food for six cows, 345. 



Conditnental foods, analysis, 312, 314; 

 how to compound, 314. 



Cooking Cost of for sheep, 456, 457 ; 

 food for hogs, 481-484 ; philosophy of, 

 487-490; will it pay, 490-492; corn 

 and stalks together, 307. 



Concrete, preparing for silo, 216-218 ; 

 proportions of water-lime concrete, 

 110; constructing walls of concrete, 

 108. 



Condensed milk, 158. 



Corn fodder, 194; starch feed, 163; 

 Stowell's evergreen, 360 ; corn cobs, 

 156; corn stalks, 156. 



Corn, running it through a cutter, 307 ; 

 feeding the crop without husking, 

 306-308 ; improper to feed alone, 141- 

 142. 



Corn and beef, beef to the acre, 311. 



Corn ensilage, trial with dry food, 510- 

 513. 



Corn-meal for horses, 384 ; wet or dry, 

 385, 386 ; for pigs, 465-469. 



Corn ration, improvement of, 310. 



Cost of beef, 260-274; J. Johnson's ex- 

 periments, 268, 269 ; O. Lewis 1 experi- 

 ments, 270, 271 ; author's experiments, 

 271-273 ; cost of whole bullock, 273, 

 274 ; gain in live weight, 265, 266. 



