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FEEDING ANIMALS. 



Sheep Feeding Regularity in, 439 ; En- 

 glish, 441-444; experiments with roots, 

 grains and grass, 441-444 ; feeding 

 young lambs, 444-449; average gain, 

 445 ; German experiments, 449-453 ; 

 table of amount of food, 450 ; experi- 

 ments by Stohmann, with table, 450, 

 451 ; effect of age and weight on the 

 growth of a lumb, 452 ; table per 100 

 Ibs. live weight, 453 ; experiments in 

 cutting and cooking fodder for, 453 ; 

 experiments, 454-456 ; cost of steam- 

 ing, 456, 457. 



Silos, 212, 213 ; plan of silo, 213 ; triple 

 silo, 214; building the silo, 215. 216 ; 

 preparing the concrete, 216-218 ; cut- 

 ting crop and filling silo, 231, 232 ; 

 sorghum, 195; storing several ensilage 

 crops together, 229, 230. 



Skimmed milk, composition, 158. 



Skin Composition, 23 ; respiratory ac- 

 tion, 71 ; excretions of, 72. 



Skim-milk ration for calves, 236, 240, 

 336 ; for colt, 364, 395; composition, 158. 



Smut grass, 147. 



Soda excreted t 77. 



Soiling, 167, 168 : saving land, 169-171 ; 

 saving fences, 171, 172 ; saving food, 

 172, 173 ; saving manure, 174 effect 

 upon health and condition, 174, 175 , 

 effect of soiling upon milk, 176-178 ; 

 effect on meat production, 179-181 ; 

 objections to soiling labor, 181, 182; 

 an experiment, 182. 183 ; cost of labor 

 for 100 head. 184-186, horses, 197, 

 198 ; cattle, 198-200 ; cows, 200-202 ; 

 sheep, 202-204, exterminates weeds, 

 205, 206 ; how to introduce it, 205, 206; 

 winter soiling, 207 ; system for swine, 

 469, 470. 



Soiling Crops Winter rye, 186, 187, 426; 

 red clover, 188; orchard grass, lucerne, 

 189, 190 ; timothy and large clover, 190; 

 alsike clover and timothy, green oats, 

 191, 192; peas and oats, common mil- 

 let, 192, 193 ; Hungarian grass, Italian 

 millet, 195 ; vetch, fodder corn, 194, 

 195 ; sorghum, 195 ; how to use green 

 crops, 195, 196. 



Special feeding for milk, 331-335. 

 Sprained ankle, treatment for, 499. 

 Sorghum, 153. 



Squash-seed, rind, 157. 



Sparry. 154. 



Spleen, 66. 



Stable Self-cleaning, platform, fig. 10, 

 97, 98 ; grating, figs. 11, 12 and 13, 99- 

 101 ; self-cleaning, for pigs, 480, 481. 



Starch, dissolved by boiling, 36, 37. 



Standard ration for feeding horses, 374- 

 377. 



Steamed food, 296. 



Stock barns, 84 ; economy of, 85 ; form 

 of, 87. 



Stock industry, capital invested, 14. 



Stock foods, 143 ; nutritive ingredients, 

 144; Dr. Collier's table of analyses 

 146-148 ; Dr. Wolff's table of food 

 analyses, 153-158; comments on tables, 

 159, 160 ; tables of food values, 161 ; 

 waste products, 162; corn-starch feed, 

 brewer's grain, 163; malt sprouts, 

 meat scrap, fish scrap, 164. 



Stomach Of solipeds, 47 ; and intes- 

 tines, illustration, 48, of ruminant-, 

 and their functions, 49, 55. 56 ; Prut. 

 Law on, 50; first, 50, 51 ; second, 51, 52; 

 cesophagean demi-canal, 53 ; third, 53; 

 fourth, 55 ; external appearance, 54 ; 

 internal appearance, 57 ; use of third 

 and fourth stomachs, 60 ; proportion 

 in different animais, 64. 



Sto well's evergreen corn, 360. 



Straw, ash constituents, 41; composi- 

 tion of different straws, 155, 156; 

 meadow hay compared, 162. 



Study the nature of the animal we feed, 

 135 ; corn should not be fed alone, 135, 

 141, 142, 385, 386. 

 Sugar-beet cake, 157. 

 Sugars, cane, grape and fruit, 34-37. 

 Sunflower cake, composition, 157. 

 Swedish clover, Alsike, 153. 

 Sweet vernal grass, 148. 

 Swine Proportion of parts, 27 ; num- 

 ber, value, 14 ; composition, 29 ; as 

 grass eating animals, 137 ; early 

 maturity in, 132-134; products of 

 the pig exported, 458-460; care of 

 breeding sows, 461, 462; clover and 

 grass, proper food, 461, 472; millc 

 richer than the cow's, 462 ; weight of 

 pigs at birth, 463 ; milk yield by dam, 

 463, 461 ; ration for young pig, 464 46b; 



