The Live-Stock of the Farm (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Live-Stock of the Farm Introduction, Selection - Atavism - Disturbing influences - Breeding in-and-in - Cross-breeding, Elements of food - Milk - Wheat - Bran - Barley - Malt - Maltcombs - Grains - Dreg - Oats - Rye - Indian corn - Buckwheat - Rice - Dari - Beans, peas, and lentils - Lupin - Linseed - Linseed-cake - Rape-cake - Cotton-cake - Palm-nut meal - Cocoa-cake - Poppy-cake - Locust or carob beans - Molasses - Turnips - Mangel-wurzel - Sugar-beet - Beet-root pulp - Carrots - Parsnips - Kohl-rabi - Cabbage - Potato - Green rape - Furze, whins, or gorse - The grasses - Clovers - Rye-grass - Natural grasses - Hay - Straw - Condimental cattle-food - Effects of food on manure - Sir John B. Lawes's Tables of Manurial Values, Ensilage, Introduction of the system - General method - Silos - Stack silage - Sweet silage - Amount of pressure - Crops for ensilage - Advantages of ensilage - Sir J. B. Lawes on ensilage - As food for cows - Silage versus mangels - The Ensilage Commission - Favourable conclusions - Royal Society's ensilage competition - Favourable report of judges About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.