522 INDEX. 



Sheep, fattening, effect of sliearing on, 403 

 feeding standards, 400 

 proportion of protein for, 399 

 quantity of water, 413 

 maintenance feeding of, 383 



feeding standards, 387 

 Weende experiments, 383 

 need relatively more food than cattle, 383 

 Skin, conduction and radiation of heat from, 231 



respiration through, 83 

 Soda, salts of, in bile, 02 

 Solid excrements, composition of, 73 



tissues, proportions of, 5 

 Sourhay, 317, 318 

 Source of muscular power, 213 

 Sources of fat, 109 

 Stable, temperature of, 237 



Stage of growth, effect of, on digestibility of hay, 203 



quality oi hay, 292, 302 

 Starch, 41 



composition of, 43 

 effect of, on digestibility, 280 

 properties, 41 

 Starch-cellulose, 42 



grains, 42 

 Stimulants, effect of, on chemical processes in body, 130, 243 

 Stomach of ruminants, 50 

 Storing, effect of, on digestibility, 2C2 

 Storing up of energy in body, 219 



influence of protein on, 232 

 oxygen, 85 



relation of, to storing np of energy, 220 

 Stover, 315 



composition of, 315 

 Straw a valuable fodder, 322 

 digestibility of, 324 

 of the cereals, 322 

 legumes, 320 



composition and digestibility of, 320 

 manner of using, 325 

 variations in composition of, 323 



