520 



FEEDING ANIMALS. 



Manure Value of, 77 ; in proportion to 

 the ration, 73, 79; value of, from dif- 

 ferent foods, 80-82; from fattening 

 cattle, 266-268; compensation for food 

 in, 415-420; from sheep, 421-424. 



Marsh grass, 147. 



Mastication, 45. 



Maturity, early, 129 ; experiments of 

 profitable feeding, 133. 



McFarland, Dr., proposes hibernating 

 pigs in winter, 484. 



Meadow hay, 153. 



Meadow foxtail, 148, 153. 



Meadow soft grass, 148, 153.' 



Meat scrap, 158, 164. 



Medicine, food as, 501. 



Method of feeding pigs, 482, 483. 



Mexican clover, 146, 150. 



Miles, Dr., experiments in feeding pigs, 

 132, 464. 



Millet Texas, 151; common, 192, 193; 

 for pasture, 431, 432. 



Millet meal, 398; bran, 157. 



Milch Cows Number, value, 13 ; water 

 for, 352-355 ; rations for, 294. 



Milk Condensed, 158; quality of, de- 

 pendent on food, 128 ; composition, 

 cow, mare and ewe, 138 ; analysis of 

 ash in 1,000 Ibs., 139; effect of soil- 

 ing upon it, 176 ; ration, at Eldena, 

 table, 325-328; special feeding for, 

 331-335; composition of 6,000 Ibs., 

 339; variety of food for, 340, 341; 

 American rations for, 349-351 ; ration 

 for colts, 363-365 ; skimmed, for colts, 

 395 ; yielded by sows, 463, 464 ; fever, 

 water remedy for, 496-498. 



Milk-fever, remedy for, 496-498. 



Molasses slump, 158. 



Mode of cutting and handling corn, 

 308-310. 



Mountain oat grass, 147. 



Mules, number, value, 13. 



Muscles, composition of, 22. 



New way to build long barns, 111-113. 



Nitrogen, excretion of, 74 ; experiments 

 on, 74, 75. 



Nostrils, 69. 



Nutrients Nitrogenous, 31; non-nitrog- 

 enous, 34; inorganic combination in 

 plants and animals, 39 ; in foods, 40, 

 41. 



Nasal cavities, 70. 



Native red-top grass, 147. 



Nutrient, 30. 



Oats, 397; green oats, 191 ; fodder onts, 

 composition, 154 ; straw and hulls, 

 156 ; bran, 158. 



Oats and beans for horses, 381, 362. 



Oats and peas, 192. 



Objections to soiling labor, 181. 



Octagon barn, 88 ; adapted to all-sized 

 farms, 102 ; cost of a fifty-foot, 104 ; 

 eight-winged, 114. 



(Esophagean demi-canal, 53. 



Offal, 25. 



Olive-oil cake, 157. 



Orchard grass, 148, 153, 189. 



Organic element!*, 19. 



Out-door feeding, 288. 



Oxen, hard-worked, rations, 305, 306. 



Ox, half-fat, fat, composition, 26. 



Palm-nut cake, 158. 



Palm seed, 157. 



Palpitation, 69. 



Pancreas, its secretions, 66. 



Parsnip leaves, composition, 154. 



Pasture grass, rich, 154. 



Pastures for Dairy Cows Variety of 

 grasses, 356-359; management of, 278- 

 281; temporary, 281-283; peas, as a 

 crop for, 429-431 ; millet for pasture, 

 431 ; grasses, blue grass or June grass, 

 wire grass, 278 ; rough-stalked mead- 

 ow grass, meadow fescue, sheep fes- 

 cue, orchard grass, 279 ; red-top or 

 herds grass, sweet-scented vernal 

 grass, blue-joint, broom grass, buffalo 

 grass, 280; extra food to fertilize, 

 359, 369. 



Peas in bloom, 153. 



Peas and oats, 146, 192, 228. 



Pea-meal as a ration, 383, 384, 398 ; pea 

 bran, hulls, 157. 



Peas as a pasture crop, 429-431. 



Pectin substances, 37-39. 



Pectoral cavity, 70. 



Peritoneum, 48. 



Peyerian gland, 63. 



Pig Intestines of, 63; store, fat, com 

 position, 26; in winter, 470-472; co> 11- 

 meal for, 465-469 ; cob-meal for, 472- 

 474; selecting for fattening, 486,487; 

 weight at birth, 463. 



