ANALYTICAL INDEX. 



517 



Cost of ensilage, 221, 222. 



Cotton seed, 157. 



Cotton-seed cake, 140, 141, 161, 162, 265, 

 269, 285, 294, 301, 302, 304, 305, 310, 350, 

 351, 359, 387, 389, 390, 397, 415, 420. 



Cows Milk, 158 ; selection of, 318-321 ; 

 food and size of, 321-325 ; experiments 

 as to size, 324 ; as food producers, 338, 

 339. 



Cow, milch, rations for, 294-297; as a 

 food producer, 338, 339; fattening 

 whilst in milk, 343, 344. 



Cow manure, value of, 345, 346. 



Cow mellon, 157. 



Cow peas, 157. 



Crab grass, composition, 147. 



Crops, ensilage, 226-229. 



Crowfoot grass, 147. 



Cutting and handling corn, 308-310. 



Cutting crops and filling silo, 231, 232. 



Cutting fodder for sheep, experiments,. 

 453-456 ; and cooking corn unhusked, 

 306-308. 



Dairy cattle, 317; feeding, 329-331. 



Dairy cows Selecting, 318-321 ; size of, 

 321-325 ; contrasting large and small, 

 American, 321, 322 ; Baron Ockel's ex- 

 periments, 323, 324; experiments in 

 Saxony, 324; Villeroy's experiments, 

 325 ; milk ration at Eldena, 325, 326 ; 

 feeding, 329, 330; special lor milk, 

 331-333; German experiments on, 335; 

 Zadock Pratt 1 s experiments, 336, 337; 

 fattening whilst in milk, 343, 344 ; 

 variety of food for, 840, 341 ; English 

 practice in feeding, 341, 842 ; Hors- 

 fall's experiments with six cows, 344, 

 345 ; value of manure, 345, 346 ; food 

 of production for, 346-348 ; American 

 rations for, 349-351 ; water for, 352- 

 354 ; variety of grasses for, 355-359 ; 

 extra food on pastures, 359, 360 ; 

 water remedies in diseases of, 493- 

 495 ; garget, 495, 496 ; puerperal or 

 milk fever, 496-498 ; brain fever, 497 ; 

 inflammation of the lungs, 498. 



Darnell grass, 148. 



Deer, domesticated, flavor of flesh, 127. 



Description of grasses, 149. 



Desmodium, 149. 



Development of cattle, early, 130. 



Dextrine, 37. 



Digestion Salivary, 45, 4fi ; gastric, 61; 

 intestinal 61. 



Digestive canal, other organs annexed 

 to, 64. 



Double income from sheep, 405, 406. 



Duo-decagon barn, 89. 



Early maturity, 129 ; considerations in 

 its favor, 131 , 132 : digestion rapid in 

 young animals, 129, 130 ; effect of full 

 feeding, 130 ; profitable feeding before 

 maturity, 132, 133. 



Economy of young beef, 255-257 ; table 

 showing law of growth, 258, 259. 



Elements, organic, 19. 



Ensilage, 207-211 ; analysis, 224 ; prog- 

 ress in United States, 219, 220 ; cost 

 of ensilage, 221, 222; as a complete 

 ration, 223-226; ensilage crops, 226- 

 229 ; winter rye, 227 ; for winter feed- 

 ing, 435-437 ; storing several crops 

 together, 229, 230 ; millet, peas, oats, 

 timothy and late clover, 228 ; sorghum 

 cane, 229; grasses with green corn, 223; 

 red clover, 225; analyses of fodder 

 plants, 224 ; transporting ensilage in 

 casks, 502, 503 ; succulent food pro- 

 duces a sound, even staple of wool, 

 503 ; Voelcker's analysis of maize and 

 rye ensilage, 505 ; effect of ensilage 

 on Havemeyer's large herd of Jerseys, 

 408, 509 ; rye ensilage superior to 

 corn, 507; experiments at Houghton 

 farm with ensilage and dry food, 510, 

 511 ; milk record during trial, 511 ; 

 cattle fatten upon grass but not upon 

 hay, 512, 513. 



English view of the cost of beef, 262-268. 



English practice in the dairy, 341, 342. 



English food rations for horses, 393, 394. 



English rye grass, 154. 



English sheep feeding, 441-444. 



Esparsette, 155. 



Ewe, milk of, 138. 



Exchanging water for fat, and vice 

 yersa, 25. 



Excretions By tissue, lungs and skin, 

 74; experiment by Stohmann, 75 ; of 

 ash constituents, 76, 77 ; experiment 

 by Lawes, 80. 



Exercise for colts, 370, 371. 



Experiments with sheep, tables, 417-420. 



