CONTENTS 



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Introduction. Live Stock and Profitable Fanning 1 



Part I. — Plant Growth and Animal Nutrition 

 Chapter 



I. How Plants Grow and Build Food for Animals 5 



II. The Animal Body — Digestion — Metabolism 18 



III. Measuring the Usefulness of Feeds 34 



IV. Maintaining Farm Animals 50 



V. Growth and Fattening. •. . 63 



VI. Production of Work, Milk, and Wool 77 



VII. Feeding Standards — Calculating Rations 84 



VIII. Economy in Feeding Live Stock 106 



Part II. — Feeding Stuffs 



IX. Leading Cereals and their By-products 117 



X. Minor Cereals, Oil-bearing and Leguminous Seeds, and their 



By-products 133 



XL Miscellaneous Concentrates — Feeding Stuffs Control — Con- 



dimental Foods 146 



XII. Indian Corn and the Sorghums for Forage 157 



XIII. The Smaller Grasses — Straw — Hay-making. . , 167 



XIV. Leguminous Plants for Forage 180 



XV. Roots, Tubers, and Miscellaneous Forages 193 



XVI. Silage— Soilage 202 



XVII. Manurial Value of Feeding Stuffs 212 



Part III. — Feeding Farm Animals 



XVIII. Feeding and Care of Horses 221 



XIX. Feeds for Horses 236 



XX. Feeding and Care of Dairy Cows 247 



XXI. Feeds for the Dairy Cow 267 



XXII. Raising Dairy Cattle 280 



XXIII. Feeding and Care of Beef Cattle 290 



XXIV. Feeds for Beef Cattle 308 



XXV. Feeding and Care of Sheep 322 



XXVI. Feeds for Sheep 336 



XXVII. Feeding and Care of Swine 347 



