Principles Of Horse Feeding - Farmers' Bulletin No. 170, U. S. Department of Agriculture
Washington, D. C. Government Printing Office, 1903. First Edition. Softcover. VG. Item #123237
Disbound from a collection. ; Contents: Principles of nutrition --Composition of feeding stuffs --Comparative value of feeding stuffs : Cereal grains ; Leguminous seeds ; Oil cakes and other commercial by-products ; Forage crops, fresh and cured ; roots and tubers ; Molasses and other by-products of sugar making ; fruits, fresh and dried ; Injurious feeding stuffs --Methods of feeding : cooked and raw feed ; Dry and soaked feed ; ground and unground feed ; cut and uncut coarse fodder --Fattening horses for market --Watering horses --Digestibility of feeding stuffs --Comparative digestibility of horses and ruminants --Rations actually fed and feeding standards --Methods of calculating rations --Muscular work and its effect on food requirements : Measuring muscular work ; Muscular work in its relation to the ration ; Proportion of energy of food expended for internal and external muscular work ; Energy required to chew and digest food ; "true nutritive value" of feeding stuffs --Fixing rations on the basis of internal and external muscular work. "Largely an abridgment of a more technical publication by the same author, issued as Bulletin no. 125 of the Office of Experiment Stations, entitled "A digest of recent experiments on horse breeding.'" ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo - 8" to 9" tall; 43 pages.
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