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Index. 



Pellagra com disease, the, 122. 

 Pepsin, IS. 



Permanent grasses, mixed, 18S. 

 Pigeon-grass seed, for pigs, 567. 



for sheep, 600. 

 Pigs, amount of feed consumed by, 662. 

 artichokes for, 871. 

 average dally gain by, 552. 

 barley meal for, 562. 

 barley vs. centrifugal skim milk for, 



586. 

 breed tests of, 643. 

 buckwheat for, 568. 

 buttermilk for, 674. 

 carrots vs. mangels for, 698. 

 centrifugal vs. gravity skim milk for, 



584. 

 clover hay with meal for, 577. 

 compared with lambs, 482. 

 composition of, 70. 

 corn and blue-grass pasture for, 577. 

 corn-fed, hard-wood ashes and bone 

 meal for, 86. 



strengthening the bones of, 86. 

 corn meal vs. com for, 656, 

 cotton-seed meal for, 157. 

 oowpeas for, 587. 



droppings of corn-fed steers for, 580. 

 early gains of, 540. 

 effect of addition of water to the feed 



for, 599. 

 effects of feed on teeth and skull of, 542. 

 fattening, 608. 

 fat vs. lean, experiments with, 78. 



experiments with, misconception 

 concerning, 85. 

 feed for 100 pounds of gain of, 553, 602. 

 feed for lOO pounds live weight of, 652. 

 feeding of, 605. 



on pasture only, 578. 



through the dam, 641. 

 following corn-fed steers, gains of, 680. 

 food of support, 550. 

 for shows, ball-feeding of, 613. 

 gain from a bushel of com by, 581. 

 glut«n meal and corn vs. wheat for, 558. 

 grain vs. beets of different sugar con- 

 tent for, 595. 



vs. blood bread for, 597. 



vs. boiled potatoes for, 595. 



vs. oil cake for, 588. 



vs. rye shorts for, 693. 

 hemp-seed cake vs. grain for, 688. 

 Increase, composition of, during fatten- 

 ing, 70. 

 Influence of, on the growing body of, 7S. 

 Kaffir corn for, 666. 

 length of fattening period for, 554. 

 length of intestines, 542. 

 mangels vs. grain for, 595. 

 meat scrap for, B!5. 

 middlings vs. com meal for, 661. 

 oat feed for, 564. 

 o«t< for, 664. 



Plga, pahn-nnt cake vs. grain for, 588. 



partial analyses of blood and kidney* 



of, 84. 

 pasture for, 578. 

 percentage gain of, from birth to DUtD- 



rity, 563. 



peanut cake vs. grain for, 688. 



peas for, 665. 



pigeon-grass seed for, 5ff7. 



potatoes for, 568. 



rape forage for, 579. 



rice meal for, 567. 



roots for, 670. 



rye or barley vs. Indian com for, 691. 



rye vs. barley for, 688, 



vs. centrifugal skim milk for, 588. 



separator skim milk for, 571, 



sheaf wheat for, 560. 



shelter for, 598. 



skim milk fed, gain from, 338. 



skim milk vs. grain for, 586. 

 vs. whey for, 585. 



soaked meal vs. dry meal for, 547. 



strength of thigh bones of, 88. 



sunflower-seed cake vs. grain for, 688. 



sweet vs. sour milk for, 573. 



turnips vs. whey for, 696. 



value of corn and cob meal for, 557. 



value of exercise for, 649. 



value of shelter for, 649. 



value of various feeding stuffs for, 556. 



water drank by, 643. 



weaning, 607. 



weight, gain and feed consumed by, 551. 

 at birth, 535, 540. 



wheat for, 559. 



wheat and com meal for, 559. 



wheat bran vs. middlings for, 662, 

 vs. rye and barley for, 691. 

 with com for, 562. 



whey for, 574. 



whey vs. grain for, 574, 687. 



Whole milk for, 571. 



winter vs. summer feeding of, 300. 



young, exercise for, 608. 



see Swine. 

 Figs and lambs, relative economy of, 48!. 

 Pig feeding, centrifugal vs. gravity gklni 



milk, 684. 

 Pig-feeding experiments, Danish, 583. 



lessons for the breeder and feeder, 617, 



lessons from experiments in, 616. 

 Plains sheep, fattening of, 631. 

 Plant building, 3. 

 Plant cells, 1. 

 Plant effort, the end of, 7. 

 Plant growth, 1. 



from the chemist's standpoint, 4. 

 Plant life, the sun the source of, 8. 

 Plant oils, 5. 

 Plant substances, how grouped tj th« 



chemist, 9. 

 Plants, elements essential to, 1. 



how food U gathered by, 3. 



