INDEX 



379 



Cows, high-producing value of, 235 

 on pasture, feeding grain to, 94 

 Crate-fattening, poultry, 357 

 Creatin, 22 

 Cumarin, 121 

 Cutin, 15 



Cutting feeds, influence on digesti- 

 bility, 67 



Dairy barn, routine day's work, 251 

 bull, feeding of, 251 

 calf, the, 224 

 cattle, feeding of, 227 



literature on feeding, 252 

 cows, amount of feed eaten an- 

 nually, 238 

 concentrates for, 246 

 dry roughage for, 245 

 feeding standards, 227 



table for, 241 

 influence of liberal feeding, 



246 

 rations for, 247 

 succulent feeds for, 244 

 summer feeding of, 243 

 the American practical 



feeding ration for, 240 

 winter feeding of, 244 

 feeds, 205, 210 

 heifer, feeding of, 242 

 herds, improvement of, 237 

 products for calves, 217 

 for swine, 302 

 Damaged wheat, 170 

 Desert plants, 145 

 Dextrine, 14 

 Dextrose, 14 

 Diastatic ferments, 13 

 Dietrich's standard for pigs, 308 

 Digester tankage, 204 

 Digestibility of feeding stuffs, 34 



conditions affecting, 63 

 Digestion coefficients, 36, 37 



of feed, 28, 366 

 Digestive apparatus of non-rumi- 

 nants, 27 

 poultry, 336 

 ruminants, 26 

 tract of a fowl, 337 

 Di-saccharides, 14 

 Distillers' grains, 189 

 Distillery feeds, 188 

 Dried blood, 204 

 Dry mash for poultry, 344, 345 

 Dry substance, 7 

 Drying of feeding stuffs, influence 



on digestibility, 66 

 Durra, 110, 173 



Eckles' standards for dairy cows, 



240 

 Edestin, 9 

 Egyptian corn, 173 

 Elements, chemical, 5 



essential, 5 

 Emmer, 172 

 Energy, available, 41 



values, Armsby's, 74 

 Erepsin, 30 

 Ewes, feeding of, 323 



milk, composition of, 323 

 Extractives, 22 



Farm animals, composition, 19 



literature on feeding, 226 

 productive feeding of, 215 

 colony poultry house, 340 >. 

 horses, wintering, 288 

 Fat, 11 



influence on digestibility, 69 

 Fats, chemical energy in, 38 

 Fattening cattle, protein require- 

 ments of, 257 

 composition of increase of live 



weight, 20, 256 

 crate for poultry, 356 



poultry, 340 

 sheep, rations for, 332 

 Feed, absorption of, 31 

 coarse, 11, 12 

 components, 6, 338 

 cooking, 298 

 digestion of, 26 



functions of, 46 

 grain feed for calves, 221 

 high- and low-protein, 11 

 influence on quality of milk, 233 



. quantity of milk, 234 

 inspection, 182 



quantity of, influence on diges- 

 tibility of feeding stuffs, 65 

 requirements for production, 45 

 roughage for calves, 221 

 skim milk for calves, 220 

 soaking, 299 

 unit system, 79 



table of unit values, 

 373 

 standard, 80 

 uses of, by animals, 44 

 Feeding beef cattle, cost of, 262 

 calves, 220, 221 

 dairy cattle, 227 

 ewes, 323 



farm animals, literature on, 226 

 fattening sheep, 325 

 flour, dark, 181 



