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INDEX 



Respiration calorimeter, 39 

 Rice, 174 



bran, 187 



by-products, 186 



composition, 186 



hulls, 186 



test for, .187 



meal, 186 



paddy, 174 



polish, 186, 187 

 Ricin, 9 

 Rocky Mountain States, grasses- of, 



91 ; 



Rolling feeds, influence on digesti- 

 bility, 67 

 Root crops, 131 

 Roots, value of, 132 



and silage, relative yields, 131 



and tubers, 131 



for horses, 286 

 Roughage for calves, 221 



for dairy cows, 245 



for dairy heifer, 243 



for horses, 283 

 Ruminants, 26 

 Rutabaga, 135 

 Rye, 169 



feeds, 183 



Sage brush, 145 

 Saliva, 28 



Salt, common, importance of, 24 

 for calves, 222 

 for dairy cows, 24 

 for goats, 334 

 for poultry, 351 

 bush, 146 



bushes, digestibility of, 146 

 in large amounts poisonous, 352 

 need of, by animals, 24 

 in small quantities, 351 

 Salvage wheat, 170 

 Scours, calf, remedies for, 220 

 Screenings, weed seeds in, 171 

 Seed, variety and quality, influence 

 on- chemical composition of feed- 

 ing stuffs, 54 

 Self-feeder for sheep, 331 

 for steers, 268 

 for swine, 312 

 Sheep, digestibility of hay and straw 

 by, 63 

 effect of fattening on carcasses 



of, 321 

 fattening, composition of in- 

 crease of, 321 

 feeding of, 325 

 rations for, 332 



Sheep, feeding of, 317 



literature on, 335 

 use of self-feeders, 331 

 husbandry, advantages of, 318 

 standard rations for, 317 

 types of, 318 

 Silage and silos, literature on, 162 

 for dairy cows, 245 

 for horses, 286 

 for steers, 265 

 crops, 155 



miscellaneous, 161 

 digestion coefficients for, 68 

 summer, 97 

 Siloing'process, changes in chemical 

 composition during, 60 

 influence on digestibility, 68 

 Silos, advantages, 153 

 and silage, 149 

 cylindrical, capacity of, 150 

 important points in building, 



151 

 structures, 153 

 types, 149 

 Skim milk, 207 ' 



for calves, 219 

 for swine, 303 

 Smithfield Show, data for steer 



slaughtered at, 259 

 Smooth brome grass, 102 

 Soaking feed, influence on digesti- 

 bility, 67, 299 

 Soft bacon, causes, 315 

 Soil, influence on chemical composi- 

 tion of feeding stuffs, 53 

 Soiling crops, 95, 96 



composition, 96 

 for dairy cows, 244 

 succession of, 96 

 partial, 97 



system, advantages of, 95 

 disadvantages, 96 

 Solanin, 137 

 Sorghum, 109 



' non-saccharine, 110 

 second-growth, care necessary in 



feeding, 110 

 silage, 157 

 Sorghums, 172 

 Sow, feeding of, 307 

 Soybean, 125 



meal, 202, 348 

 plant, composition of, 125 

 silage, 160 

 Soybeans, 175 

 Speltz, 172 

 Spineless cacti, 146 



literature on, 148 



