ANALYTICAL INDEX. 



521 



Philosophy of cooking food, 487-490. 

 Phosphoric acid excreted, 76, 77. 

 Pigeon grass, 147-153. 

 Plantain, 146. 



Plants, natural function of, 19. 

 Potato tops, composition, 155, 156. 

 Poppy-seed cake, 157. 

 Potash excreted, 77. 

 Production, food of, 346-349. 

 Products manufactured, ash constitu- 

 ents, 41. 

 Profitable feeding must be done before 



maturity, 132. 

 Progress of ensilage in United States, 



219, 220. 

 Protein, 32. 

 Ptyalin, 46. 

 Puerperal or milk fever, water remedy, 



496-498. 

 Pulse How to find it, 67; different 



kinds, 68. 



Pumpkin-seed cake, etc., 157. 

 Quack grass, 147, 151, 154. 

 Quality of young beef, 253, 254. 

 Rack for cattle, 199. 

 Rack for sheep, 124. 



Rape, 155-158, 224, 433-435 ; straw and 

 hulls, 156 ; rape cake, 158 ; rape meal, 

 158. 



Ration, 30; for cattle, 292, 293; for 

 milch cows, 294-297, for fattening 

 cattle, 304, 305; for oxen at hard work, 

 305, 306 ; for milk, at Eldena, 325-328; 

 for milk cow, English, 342 ; Prof. 

 Horsfull's, 343-345 ; for milk, Ameri- 

 can, 349-351 ; of milk for colts, 364, 

 365; standard, for feeding horses, 374- 

 377; practical, 377-380, for sheep, 415; 

 variety of, 436 ; for young pigs, 464- 

 466 ; grass as part of the, 468, 469. 

 Red clover, 146, 153-155, 188, 225, 357. 

 Heed meadow grass, 147. 

 Respiratory foods, 42-44 ; products, 76. 

 Respiration, 69 ; principles of, 42 ; food 



of, 43. 



Remastication, 47. 

 Rice meal, composition, 158 ; rice bran, 



158. 



Reticulum, 51, 58. 

 Ribwort plantain, 146. 

 Roots,, ash constituents, 41. 

 Roots for sheep feeding, 432, 433. 



Roots, grains and grass, experiments, 

 441-444. 



Rumination, 58 ; conditions essential to, 

 60. 



Ruminants, intestines of, 63. 



Running corn through a cutter, 307. 



Rutabagas, composition, 155. 



Rye, winter, 186-188, 398, 426, 427. 



Rye grass, English, 153 ; Italian, 153. 



Rye fodder, 153 ; straw and chaff, 156. 



Rye bran, 157 ; refuse, 158. 



Saliva, 45 ; ptyalin, 46. 



Salivary glands, 46. 



Satin grass, Shrader's grass, 150. 



Seeds, ash constituents, 41. 



Seradella, 153. 



Self-cleaning stable, 97-101. 



Sex-decagon barn, 89. 



Sheep Number, value, 14 ; proportion 

 of parts, 27 ; store, half-fat, fat, extra 

 fat, composition, 26, 29; rack, 123, 

 124 ; shelter, 125; husbandry, 400-402; 

 feeding in New Jersey, 402-404 ; prof- 

 its of feeding, 403 ; lambs raised for 

 market, 404 ; double income, fleece 

 and lambs, 405, 406 ; early maturity, 

 406-408 ; growth in early lambs, 407, 

 408 ; selection of sheep for breeding, 

 408^11 ; Bakewell improving the Lei- 

 cester, 409, 410; result of crossing 

 Southdowns and Cotswolds, 410, 411 ; 

 summer feeding of small flocks, 411- 

 413; hurdle feeding, 413-415 ; an ex- 

 periment in, 422-424 ; fertilizing the 

 field, 414 ; sheep ration, 415 ; compen- 

 sation for food in manure, 415-420; 

 amount of food elements in manure, 

 416 ; table of Dr. Wolff's experiments 

 and others, 417-420; value of solid 

 and liquid excrement. 421 ; on worn- 

 out lands, 424, 425; feeding green crops 

 on the land, 425, 426 ; winter rye as a 

 sheep pasture, 426, 427 ; winter vetch, 

 427-429 ; peas as a pasture crop, 429- 

 431; millet for pasture, 431, 432; roots 

 for sheep feeding, 432, 433 , rape, 433- 

 435 , ensilage for winter feeding, 435- 

 437 ; managing a flock, 437-439. 



Sheep fescue, 147, 153. 



Size of dairy cows, 321-325. 



