518 



FEEDING AKIMALS. 



Experiments In feeding a heifer, 333- 

 335 ; German, 335-337 ; German, feed- 

 ing horses, 372-374 ; feeding pea-meal, 

 383 ; in feeding colts, 368, 369 ; with 

 roots, grains and grass, 442-444 ; in 

 sheep feeding, 454-456; on sheep 

 manure, 422^*24. 



Extra food to fertilize pastures, 359, 360. 



Farms, garden truck, 315, 316. 



Fats, 38, 39 ; composition of, 23 ; how 

 produced, 339, 340. 



Fatty substances, 43. 



Fatten cows in milk, 343-345. 



Fat stock shows, 258, 259 ; growth ac- 

 cording to age, 258-261. 



Feeding Experiments, 343; most profit- 

 able before maturity, 132 ; experi- 

 ments, 133, 134; too concentrated 

 food, 135, 136 ; young animals, 140- 

 142 ; under six months old, 142 ; in 

 winter, 287, 288; out-door, 288-291; 

 corn-meal alone, 135-137; German 

 standard of, 292 ; corn-crop, 306-308 ; 

 in summer, 277, 278 ; green crops on 

 the land, 425, 426 ; regularity in, 439, 

 440 ; young lambs, 445-449 ; average 

 gain, 445 ; on small farms, 315, 316 ; 

 dairy cattle, 329-331 ; horses, German 

 experiments, 372-374 ; horses, stand- 

 ard rations, 374-377 ; horses for light 

 work, 376 ; horses, practical rations, 

 377-380 ; <;orn-meal for horses, 385- 

 390 ; corn-meal fed wet or dry, 385, 

 386 ; for fast work, 395-399 ; colts for 

 full development, 396, 397 ; colts, ex- 

 periments, 369, 370; whey to pigs, 

 466-468 ; feeding corn-crop without 

 husking, 306-308 ; feeding green crops 

 upon the land, 422-425. 



Fermented hay, 155. 



Fish scrap, 164. 



Flesh, without bones, 28. 



Flesh, flavor of, as affected by focd, 128. 



Flax-seed, 140-142, 235-238, 245, 246, 249, 

 295, 296, 299, 314, 365, 390, 394, 395, 

 397, 420. 



Flourens, experiments upon stomachs 

 of sheep, 56. 



Foals, weight and growth of, 367-370; 

 handling, 367, 871, 399. 



Fodder vegetables, elements, 30. 



Fodder corn, 194, 195. 



Fodder, cutting and cooking for sheep, 

 453-456. 



Fodder rye, 153. 



Fodder vetch, 154, 



Fodder oats, 154. 



Food medicines, 501. 



Food tables, 153-158; comments on 159. 



Food for muscles, bones, etc., 43, 44. 



Food Flavor of flesh affected by, 

 126-129; nearest to milk in muscle- 

 fojaning, 141 ; value per ton, clover 

 hay, average meadow hay, corn fod- 

 der, oat straw, linseed-oil cake, wheat 

 bran, corn-meal and oats, 161 ; how 

 it is disposed of in the animal, 78 ; 

 what is separated as manure, 78 ; con- 

 dimental, analysis, 312-314 ; respira- 

 tory, 42-44 ; tables for horses, 387, 389; 

 tables for grain rations, 390-392; tables 

 for stage horses, 391-394 ; for horses, 

 371,372 ; for dam, 365-367 ; bulky, for 

 horses, 380-384 ; producer, the cow as 

 a, 338, 339 ; how disposed of, 78 ; of 

 production, 346-349 ; for milk, 340, 

 341; grasses as, 146-148,153-157; waste 

 products as, 157, 158. 



Foxtail grass, 147. 



Fowl meadow grass, 14T. 



French rye grass, 154. 



Functions of the stomach, 55, 56. 



Gama grass and grama grass, 152. 



Garden truck farms, 315, 316. 



Garget, water remedy, 495, 496. 



Gastric juice, 49-61. 



Gastric digestion, 61. 



German feeding standard, cattle rations, 

 292; horse rations, 372-374. 



Glands, salivary, parotid, maxillary, 

 sub-lingual, molar, labial, palatine, 46. 



Gluten of grains, how to separate, 31, 

 38. 



Grain, ash, constituents of, 41. 



Grains, analysis of, 140. 



Grain, cost of feeding, 264-266. 



Grasses and Fodder Plants Analysis 

 of, 146-148,153-157; desmodium, Japan 

 clover,149; Mexican clover,satin grass, 

 Shrader's grass, 150 ; Bermuda grass, 

 the crab grasses, Texas millet, quack 

 grass, 151 ; wire grass, gama grass, 

 grama grass, 152 ; money value, 153- 

 158 ; comments on tables, 159, 160. 



