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Index 



M 



MacKenzie and Marshall, 17. 



Mangels for swine, 326. 



Management, of breeding herd in 

 winter, 33 ; of pigs during the 

 summer, 223. 



Market, classes of hogs on, 368; 

 importance of ability to top the, 

 456 ; receipts on Chicago, 377 ; 

 selUng hogs on, 366 ; weight and 

 type of pig desired by, 128, 129. 



Marketing, and markets, 362 ; 

 costs of, 367 ; time of, affected by 

 system of feeding, 216, 218. 



Markets, 362. 



Mating, general systems of, 23 ; 

 time in day, 25. 



Meat and bone products, composi- 

 tion of, 255. 



Meat-meal, see Tankage. 



Michael and Kennedy, 331. 



Middlings, or shorts, vs. tankage, 

 260 ; white or flour, composi- 

 tion of, 271. 



Milk, composition of sow's, 116 ; 

 production by brood sows, 113, 

 114. 



Milo, composition of, 280; for 

 fattening pigs, 297. 



Minerals, for nursing sows, 82 ; for 

 pregnant sows and gilts, 54. 



Molasses, black strap, as a substi- 

 tute for corn, 320; sugar-beet, 

 for fattening shotes, 321. 



Moore Bros., 91. 



Motor truck, shipping hogs by, 368. 



Mumford and Weaver, 157, 191. 



N 

 Needle teeth, 74. 



Nutrition, relation to birth weight 

 of pigs, 112. 



O 



Oata, as a forage crop in mixtures, 

 168 ; best proportion of meat- 

 meal to feed with, 206; clover 

 and rape with, 168 ; Canada field 



peas, rape, and, 169 ; composi- 

 tion of, 280; effect of feeding 

 different proportions of, with 

 corn, 295 ; vetch and rape with, 

 168. 

 Oat-meal, as a supplement to corn, 

 311. 



Packing-house by-products, com- 

 position of, 254. 



Paralysis of posterior portion of 

 body, partial or complete, 470- 

 471. 



Parasites of hogs, 473-476. 



Pasteurization of dairy by-products, 

 252. 



Peanut forage vs. dry-lot feeding, 

 186. 



Peanut-oil feed, unhulled, as a 

 supplement to milo, 310. 



Peanut-oil meal, as a supplement 

 to milo, 309, 310; vs. linseed-oil 

 meal vs. tankage, 311. 



Peanuts, characteristics of, as a 

 forage, 185 ; effect on quality of 

 pork, 315 ; and corn vs. rice bran, 

 313. 



Pedigree, judging the value of, 452 ; 

 of in-bred animal, 445 ; method 

 of writing, 451. 



Pen-holders, 369. 



Performance, value of, in selecting 

 breeding stock, 453. 



Peters, W. H., 49. 



Pig, cost of market, 357 ; cost of, 

 at weaning, 356 ; weight and 

 type desired by market, 128. 



Pig-creep, 83. 



Pig eaters, 75. 



Pig-nest, framework for, 70. 



Pigs, birth weight of, 107 ; cost of 

 feeding to market weight, 225 ; 

 cereal grains for fattening, 280; 

 in clover, Plate V ; dressing per- 

 centage of, 374 ; effect of cross- 

 breeding on birth weight of, 110; 

 early or late, 21 ; fattening for 

 market, 239 ; feeding young, 84 ; 

 gains from birth to weaning, 86 ; 



