INDEX 



349 



Poultry — Continued 



Oriental class, 311 



pure-bred fowls, 274-275 



raising feed, 300-301 



renewing flock, 278-279 



rules for judging, 311 



score card, 309-311 



sitting hens, 279 



small flock, 290-291 



testing thermometer, 284 



turkeys, 320-323 



types of chickens, 307-319 

 Prairie grass, 36 

 Protein, analyzing for, 12 



effect of digestive fluids, 20-21 



for repair of waste, 19 



in bran, 51 



in feed stuffs, 22 



in stomach, 18 



in oats, 45 



phosphorus in, 15, 21 



Race horse, 95-96 

 Racks, feeding, 254 

 Rambouillet sheep, 131, 133-134 

 Ration, balanced, 63 



figuring, 71, 73-78 



trial, 73-77 



varying, 169 

 Red dog, 52 



Red Polled cattle, 106, 128-129 

 Redtop, 36 

 Rennin, 18 



Resins in roughage, 23 

 Reticidum, 20 



Rhode Island Red chickens, 274 

 Rice, bran, 53 



carbohydrates in, 14 



vitamine in, 16 

 Roadster horse, American Saddle, 81 



American Trotter, 81 



Arabian, 81 



judging, 225-227 



Orloff Trotter, 81 



Thoroughbred, 81 

 Romney Marsh sheep, 149 

 Root crops, 32, 46-48 



commonly used, 47-4S • 



similar to grass, 47 



water in, 47 

 Roughage, 23 



alfalfa, 38 



Roughage — ConHmted 



corn, 33 



defined, 32 



digestibility, 25 



ether extract of, 23 



for maintenance, 63-64 



for ruminants, 70 



grasses, 32 



legumes, 32 



silage, 32 



stover, 32 



straw, 32 

 Rumen, 20 



Ruminants, roughage for, 70 

 Ruminating animals, 17 



experiments with, 24-25 

 Rumination, 17 

 Rye, 37, 46 



carbohydrates in, 14 



Saddle horse, gaits, 226-227 



judging, 225-227 

 Saliva, 19 

 Salt, 70, 248, 254 

 Sanfoin, legume, 37 

 Score card, beef cattle, 176 



chickens, 309-310 



dairy cattle, 185 



draft horses, 221 



Kght horses, 228 



sheep, 200 



swine 193 

 Screenings, 53 

 Secretions of stomach, 18 

 Seeds, concentrates, 42 

 Seradella, legume, 37 

 Serum, sodium in, 21 

 Sheep, alfalfa for, 39 



American Merino, 131-132 



Black Face Highland, 131, 147-149 



breeds, 131-151 



care, 251-258 



Cheviot, 131, 140-141 



classification, 131 



cost, 252-253 



Cotswold, 131, 146-147 



cottonseed meal for, 57 



Delaine, 132-133 



Delaine Merino, 131 



digestion, 20, 24-25, 27 



dipping tank, 257 



docking, 256-257 



