Productive Feeding of Farm Animals

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J.B. Lippincott Company, 1921 - 385 Seiten

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DETERMINATION OF THE NUTRITIVE VALUE of Feeding STUFFS
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Digestible Components and Nutritive Ratios of Common Feeds in Per Cent
36
A View of the Respiration Calorimeter at the Pennsylvania Experi ment Station
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USES OF FEED BY ANIMALSFEEDING STANDARDS
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Manurial Value of Feeding Stuffs
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Shade Trees and a Running Stream in the Pasture Make for the Health and Comfort of Farm Animals
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Indian Corn Grown for the Silo or for Soiling
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The Relative Expense of Producing and Feeding Soiling Crops
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Considerably Greater than in the Case of Silage
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A Field of Dwarf Blackhull Kafir Corn
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A Soybean Nitrogen Factory
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Alfalfa will Furnish an Abundance of Green Feed Throughout the Growing Season
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Curing and Harvesting Alfalfa
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Crimson Clover
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A South Carolina Vetch Field
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A Field of Soybeans
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Halfsugar Mangels
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Rutabagas Bloomsdale a Good Type for Stock Feeding
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Carrots for Stock Feeding
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Pigs on Rape
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Spineless Cactus Yields Large Crops of a Very Watery Feed under Favorable Conditions
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Stave Silos
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A Good Concrete Silo
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A California Dairy Barn with Concrete Silos
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A Resaw Silo Being Filled with Alfalfa
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Battery of Four Cement Silos on a California Cattle Ranch
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Corn and Soybeans Grown for Silage
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Cereal Grains
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Weeds Growing from Seed Found in a Mixed Dairy Feed
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Types of Grain Sorghums
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Diagram Showing Increase in Area Sown to Grain Sorghum in Kansas during the Decade 190413
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VARIOUS FACTORY BYPRODUCTS
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Section of Corn Kernel
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SUGAR FACTORY FEEDS AND OIL MEALS
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Crosssection of Flaxseed Showing the Different Layers of Cells
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The Swelling Test
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Holstein SkimmilkCalves
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PRODUCTIVE FEEDING OF FARM ANIMALS XXI CALF FEEDING
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Dairy Calves in the Pasture
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At Meal Time the Calf is Fed Warm Sweet Milk in a Clean Pail While Securely Fastened in a Comfortable Stanchion
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Calves in Stanchions in Pasture
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FEEDING DAIRY CATTLE
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Dairy Cows of Good Breeding and Well Kept and Cared for Make Excellent Returns at the Pail
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Normal Changes in Monthly Yield and Fat Content of Milk from Dairy Cows
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Lily of Willowmoor 22269 Ayrshire Record Cow
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Countess Prue 43785 Guernsey Record Cow
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FEEDING BEEF CATTLE
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The Number and Value of Cattle Other than Milch Cows in the United States April 15 1910
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Increase in Number of Cattle in this Country from 1890 to 1910
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Tennessee Steers in the Feed Lot
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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 abou...
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Steer Feeding Barns and Feeding Troughs on a California Cattle Ranch
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Beef Cattle Fattened on Corn Fed in Large Flat Troughs
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A Mississippiraised Baby Beef Calf
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A Grand Champion Shorthorn Bull
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Fattening Steers in California
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FEEDING HORSES AND MULES
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Draft Horses that Give a Good Account of Themselves in the Show Ring as Breeding Animals and for Doing Heavy Work
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Horses on the Western Range
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A Team of Farm Work Mules
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FEEDING SWINE
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A Group cf Young Berkshire Pigs
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The Amount of Feed Consumed Per 100 Pounds of Gain for Fattening Pigs Increases with Their Live Weights
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Wellfed Busy Youngsters that will Grow into Good Porkers
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The Hog Motor a Device for Making Pigs Grind the Corn They Eat
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Diagram Showing the Acreage of Corn and Number of Swine and Cattle Listed in the Twelve Leading Corngrowing States in the Union According t...
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and 77 Pigs Fed for Fat and Lean
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Meal Time for the Swine Herd
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Making Pork on Rape and Oats
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Making Pork on Blue Grass
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A Thrifty Bunch of Sows and Pigs Crowding around the Feed Troughs
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A Cement Feeding Floor Provided with Sanitary Substantial Troughs is an Essential to a Wellequipped Piggery
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Portable Hoghouses with Low Flat Roofs
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Interior Arrangement of Hoghouses at Illinois Station
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The Selffeeder Saves Labor in Feeding Pigs and other Farm Animals
313
A Convenient Selffeeder for Supplying Charcoal and Mineral Matter to Pigs on Pasture
315
FEEDING SHEEP AND GOATS
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Purebred Flock of Mutton Sheep at the Morgan Horse Farm
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A Fine Bunch of Yearling Rams
320
Grade Dorset Lambs from Merino Ewes Make Excellent Hot house Lambs
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Range Sheep in Feed Yards at Caldwell Nevada
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Lambfeeding Corrals in Nevada
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Winter Scene of Range Sheep in the Nevada Mountains
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A Flock of Angora Goats in the California Foothills
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An Imported Swiss Milch Goat
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FEEDING POULTRY BY PROF J E DOUGHERTY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
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APPENDIX TABLE I COMPOSITION OF FEEDING STUFFS
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DIGESTION COEFFICIENTS FOR FEEDING STUFFS
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DRY MATTER DIGESTIBLE CRUDE AND TRUE PROTEIN
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TABLE OF FEED UNITS
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MANURIAL VALUE OF FEEDING STUFFS
374
WEIGHTS OF CONCENTRATED FEEDS
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Seite 127 - ... away from poisonous areas is ordinarily unnecessary. (3) When stock are trailed from one place to another, they should, so far as possible, be driven through a country with plenty of good feed. If it is necessary to drive them through a locality supposed to be infested with poisonous plants, care should be taken to see that the stock are not hungry when going through this region. It is much better to make such a drive in the afternoon rather than in the morning. Special precautions must be taken...
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