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INDEX 



Literature on feeding, farm animals, 

 226 

 goats, 335 

 horses, 293 

 mules, 293 

 poultry, 358 

 sheep, 335 

 swine, 316 

 forage and grain crops, 177 

 silos and silage, 162 

 spineless cacti, 148 

 Live animals, composition, 19 

 Low-protein feeds, 10 

 Lymph, 22 



Maintenance rations, 45 

 requirements, 44 



for different hody weights, 45 

 Malt sprouts, 189 

 Maltose, 14 

 Mangels, 133 

 Manurial value of feeding stuffs, 86, 



374 

 Mare, feeding of, 281 

 Market hay, grades, 103 

 Marsh hay, 103 

 Maysin, 9 

 Meat meal, 204 

 Melons, 141 

 Mesquite beans, 212 

 Metabolism, 33 

 Method of harvesting, 108 

 Milch goats, 333 

 Milk, albumen, 22 

 colostrum, 206 

 composition, 206 



with variations, 228 

 fat, 23 



from carbohydrates, 48 

 production, factors influencing, 

 229 

 influence of age of cows, 231 

 breed, 229 



condition of cows, 232 

 excitement, 232 

 feeding, 233 

 frequency of milking, 



232 

 grooming and exercise, 



233 

 individuality, 230 

 stage of lactation 



period, 231 

 season of year, 233 

 temperature and 

 weather, 233 

 requirements for, 52 

 whole, for calves, 217 



Milk-sugar, 14 



Millets, 111 



Milo maize, 110, 173 



Mineral matter, 7 



mixtures for swine, 306 

 substances, influence on digesti- 

 bility, 69 



Molasses, 192 



beet pulp, 195 



Mono-saccharides, 14 



Motor, hog, 298 



Mules, feeding of, 291 



Muscular tissues, 22 



Myosin, 22 



Myosinogen, 22 



Net energy, 42 



Nitrogen-free extract, 13, 18 

 Non-ruminants, 26 

 Non-saccharine sorghums, 110 

 Nucleo-proteins, 10 

 Nutritive ratio, 51, 73, 339 



Oat clippings, 183 



dust, 182 



feeds, 182 



hulls, 182 



shorts, 182 



silage, 161 



straw, composition, 128 

 Oats, 166 



and oat hulls, composition of, 

 166 



digestibility, 167 



new, 167 

 Official tests of dairy cows, 237 

 Oil, addition to skim milk, fcr 

 calves, 220 



meals, 195 



composition, 197 

 Old-process linseed meal, swelling 



test for, 196 

 Olein, 12 



Orchard grass, 102 

 Oxyhemoglobin, 21 



Pacific Coast, grasses of, 91 

 Packing-house feeds, 204 

 Palmitin, 12 

 Pancreas, 29 

 Pancreatic juice, 29 

 Parsnips, 142 



composition of, 142 

 Pasturage, value of, 94 

 Pasture, feeding grain to cows on, 94 



for dairy cows, 243 

 steers, 265 

 swine, 304 



