ILLUSTRATIONS 
Weeds Growing from Seed Found in a Mixed “Dairy Feed”’....... 171 
Types of Grain Sorghums................. 0000 eee eet eee 173 
Diagram Showing Increase in Area Sown to Grain Sorghum in 
Kansas during the Decade 1904-13...............0-0 eee eeee 174 
Section of Corn Kernel.............0... 00s eee eee eee eee 185 
Cross-section of Flaxseed Showing the Different Layers of Cells.... 196 
The Swelling Test.......... 0.0 ccc ecb e eee cece nent eee eeee 197 
Holstein Skim-milk-Calves.......... 000s cee cece eee Orin Biagtneaaa 208 
Dairy Calves in the Pasture............. 0.0 cece eee eee ee 217 
At Meal Time the Calf is Fed Warm, Sweet Milk in a Clean Pail, 
While Securely Fastened in 2 Comfortable Stanchion......... 218 
Calves in Stanchions in Pasture.............. 000s cece certs 219 
Dairy Cows of Good Breeding and Well Kept and Cared for Make 
Excellent Returns ‘“‘at the Pail”............. 0.00. eee eee eee 228 
Normal Changes in Monthly Yield and Fat Content of Milk from 
WANs COWS cess paccupracditostosiausmelalb cexhacloutonaiers auiyaussoeucne o oateR debt 232 
Areas of Circles Representing Average Values of the Products from 
the Best Ten or the Poorest. Ten Cows inthe Wisconsin Dairy 
Cow Competition, 1909-1911............ 0. cece ee eee eee 236 
Liberal Rations Fed to Cows of Beefy Tendencies Produce a Gain 
In WelENtissca.csmecoes ne eet ains oe ceeds eee a eee aa 236 
Spring Milk-scale Enabling the Farmer to Keep Accurate Milk 
Records of his Cows with but Very Little Extra Effort....... 237 
Babcock Test: Apparatus: cisscsasns san cana simlaae wink eae es ae 238 
Production and Size are the Factors Determining the Feed Re- 
quiremerts of Dairy Cows............ 00. e eee c eee e teens 239 
Alfalfa is, as a Rule, Fed in Racks in the Corrals (Feeding Yards) 
to Milch Cows in the Western States...............0c cues 246 
The “‘ Meal Cart”’ Used for Weighing Concentrates for the Individual 
Cows in the Herd ......... 0... ccc c cc cee een eeteeneeee 247 
Weighing Rations for the Dairy Herd................ 00 cee eeees 248 
’ Yeksa Sunbeam, No. 15439, Guernsey..............000c0e ee eeee 249 
Colantha 4th Johanna, No. 48577, Holstein..................... 249 
May Rilma, No. 22761, Guernsey........ 20.00. c cece cece eee 250 
Tilly Aleartra, No. 123459, Holstein ...............: 0. .cn aes 250 
The Number and Value of Cattle Other than Milch Cows in the 
United States, April 15, 1910........ 02... cece eee eee eee 254 
Number of Beef Cattle in the Corn Belt States, 1913............ 254 
Increase in Number of Cattle in this Country from 1890 to 1910... 255 
The Amount of Grain Required ‘to Produce a Hundred Pounds of 
Gain in Fattening Steers Increases with the Range of the Feed- 
ing Period from about 730 Pounds to 1000 Pounds........... 260 
Tennessee Steers in the Feed Lot.................0 0.0 ccc eee 263 
Steer Feeding Barns and ioe Troughs on a California Cattle 
Ranch. gon NW it Na A glkA Alc Ea teh ha Nae dialer eh Sai 267 
