Q^eneral Index. 



277 



Pase. 



How cows hold up their milk 38 



milk is formed 39 



Immaturity in steers and heifers 138 

 Immediate cause of infertility, 130, 181 

 Improving light-muscled short- 

 horns 102 



Inactive cattle thin skinned 95 



Increase of feed and blood 356 



in blood and artery size 



197,198,307 



in breathing and blood.. 121, 133 

 in food value from exercise 



183,184 



in nutrition and embryo 



growth 61 



in muscle and food value 173 



of feed should be gradual 342, 343 



Increased size in many hogs 168 



Increasing fertility 112 



Indications of tenderness 90 



Index of maximum yield 50 



Infusions and dips 107 



Influence of humidity on feed and 



yield 33 



of bulk in feed, and lungs 146, 149 

 of bulk in alimentary canal . . 



147,149 



Insipid quality of veal 140 



Interior of the udder 36, 37 



Intrinsic value from nutritive 



quality 114 



Jonas Webb; driving cows, and 

 activity to increase fer- 

 tility 130,121 



Kind treatment and good temper 78 

 Kyloe cattle ; their vigor ; long 



coats ot hair 131 



Land pike hogs 167 



Large yield in Illinois 276 



Law ot compensation 76 



Less than half a-pint increase a 



year in yield 215 



Light-horns and tail favor yield. 7,i 

 Limited elasticity in arteries 251, 352 

 Left side in two of Guenon's 



classes 28,29 



Local conditions give cliaracter. . 103 



Lon,' Island hornless cows 102 



Lung plague — by suffocation; 



great need of exercise, 152, 158 

 Loss of food value in cattle and 



hogs 170, 171 



of contractile power in ar- 

 teries 325 



Maintaining yield 269 



Mammary blood is breeding blood 59 



Male share in Yield Mark 69 



marks inheritfd trom cow. . . 70 

 transmission of primary 

 germs 37 



Page. 

 Males mark many calves in a 



season 73 



Marbled beef not good 83 



Mature beef at matur j age 145 



Methods of alternate breeding 360, 361 



Microscopic fungi 223 



Milk-weight produces the Yield 

 Mark; weight pr.ssure in 



the udder 47, 48 



yield according to blood sup- 

 ply 65 



Moisture in the Netherland cli- 

 mate ; and feed 367 



Muscle for labor power and food 185 

 in California short-horns . . . ,- 101 



in herded Western cattle 183 



reduced in various grades, 107-109 



increased in grades 109, 110 



strengthens breeding powor. 124 



wastes frcn inactivity 119 



Muscular contraction causes mo- 

 tion 123 



Muscularity of Devons and Gal- 

 loways 93 



Monstrous Christmas cattle 132 



Natural direction of the hair 46 



extent of exercise and breath- 

 ing 153 



use of the locomotive organs 190 



Obj ect of breeding cattle 125 



Objections to small heads 79 



to immoderate yield 373 



Oily feed not best for milk 371 



and soft, lustrous hair 80 



Only half-work in half-time 141 



Ordinary causes of abortion, 193, 331 

 Origin of character in cattle, 126, 137 



of hand-milking 19,20 



of the Yield Mark 44, 45, 71 



of large hind quarters ... 68, 257 



of ovals on the twist 29, 32 



of milking families 74 



Ovals in the Yield Mark 29,32 



Ovarian engorgement from abor- 

 tion 237 



Over-distention of the milk- 

 glands 43 



Pale color of the udder 32 



Passi\e signs, and active capacity 



72,73 



Peculiarities of abortion 192 



Practical value of the Yield Mark 



29,50,51 



Practice of John D. Gillette, of 



Illinois ; 175 



Prefatory statement 9-12 



Prematurity in steers and heifers 



138, 139 



Preventing abortion 242 



Proportion of parts necessary 79 



Present state transmitted 186 



Preventing hog cholera 161, 16? 



