TABLE II.-Average Digestion Coefficients for Common Feeding Stuffs, in Per

Cent

38
60
52
59

Cow pea

66

72 71 71 81 68 74 63 68 56

60 66 68 68 67 68 60 67 58 69 65 66 60 73 67 60 70 69 64 62

71 72 82 76 64 60 72 75 60 66 76 67 62 79 47 75 72 78 48 71

43 61 62 60 71 60 53 68 61 74 60 53 61 79 59 47 76 60 56 44

75

68 78 63 70 75 73 69 69 66 76

Hungarian grass
Indian corn.
Oat fodder.
Oats and vetch.
Orchard grass.
Pasture grass
Peas and oats.
Red clover
Red top..
Rye fodder.
Sorghum.
Soybean.
Sudan grass.
Sweet clover
Timothy:

Vetch, winter
Hay from Grasses and

Cereals:
Barley hay.
Bermuda hay.
Corn stover.
Fodder corn.
Hungarian grass.
Kentucky blue grass.
Johnson grass
Kafir fodder.
Milo fodder.
Mixed grasses.
Oat hay
Orchard grass
Red top
Rowen, mixed.
Sudan grass
Sweet Sorghum

Timothy...
Hay from Legumes:

Alfalfa.
Alsike clover.

62
52

::.

40 42 70 74 64 52 38 60 63 49 62 54 51 47 29 74 52

62 62 59 58 61 58 62 61 69

72 71 71 65 61 65 69 72 73

TABLE II.-Average Digestion Coefficients for Common Feeding Stuffs, in Per

Cent—Continued

A. ROUGHAGE—Con.
Straw, Chajj, etc.
Barley straw
Bean...
Oat chaff
Oat straw.
Rice straw.
Rye straw.
Soybean
Wheat chaff.

Wheat straw.
Roots, Tubers, etc.:

Cabbage.
Carrot.
Mangel
Potato.
Pumpkin.
Rape..
Rutabaga
Sugar beet.

Turnip..
Miscellaneous Coarse
Feeds:
Acorns.
Apple pomace.
Australian salt bush..
Sugar beet leaves and

tops.. Silage:

Clover..

88
86
79
76
81
85
87

86 76 75 45 77 89 80 72 76

96 94 91 90 89

13 92 48 84

92

61 87 74 34 82

92 1

95 97 96

89

66

Cow pea.

Indian corn (dent).
Kafir corn.
Peas and oats.
Sorghum.
Soybean.
Vetch.

AND

B. CONCENTRATES

TABLE II.-Average Digestion coefficients for Common Feeding Stuffs, in Per

Cent - Continued

B. CONCENTRATES AND

BY-PRODUCTS-Con.
Grains and Seeds-Con.

Flaxseed.
Horse bean
Kafir corn.
Milo maize.
Oats.
Pea meal.
Rye meal.
Soybean.

Wheat....
Factory By-products:

Barley feed
Beet pulp, dried.
Brewers' grains, dried
Buckwheat feed ?
Cane molasses.
Coconut meal.
Corn bran..
Corn cobs..
Cotton seed hulls.
Cotton seed meal.
Dried distillers' grains. .
Gluten feed.
Gluten meal
Grain screenings.
Hominy feed..
Linseed meal.
Malt sprouts.
Molasses beet pulp.
Oat hulls.
Peanut meal.
Rice bran..
Rice polish
Rye feed..
Sesame cake meal
Soybean meal
Sunflower seed cake.
Wheat bran..
Wheat middlings, flour.
Wheat middlings,

standard Animal Feeds:

Dried blood.
Fish meal.
Meat meal.
Skim milk.
Tankage.
Whole milk

86 86 58 71 90 83 85 48 41 61 81 89 90 85 89 78

88 73 86 88 75 65 89 80

65

61

54 831 62 83 82 871 90

77
60
(9)
21
22

50 90 64 66 80 92 91 92

73

741

78

62
82

26 29 36

88

731

77

30

63 1

62 75 93 95 97 94

98 92

981

98

TABLE III -Average Dry Matter, Digestible Crude and True Protein, and Net

Energy Values Per 100 Pounds for Ruminants (Armsby & Putney)

A. DRIED ROUGHAGE:
Hay and Fodder from Cereals:

Brome grass, smooth..
Corn fodder (ears included, medium dry)
Corn stover (ears removed, medium dry)
Millet, Hungarian ..
Mixed timothy and clover.
Oat hay.
Orchard grass..
Red top..
Timothy, ell analyses.
Timothy, before bloom.
Timothy, early to full bloom..
Timothy, late bloom to early seed.

Timothy, nearly ripe.....
Hay and Fodder from Legumes:

Alfalfa, all analyses
Alfalfa, before bloom.
Alfalfa, in bloom.
Alfalfa, in seed.
Clover, alsike..
Clover, crimson.
Clover, red, all analyses
Clover, red, before bloom.
Clover, red, in bloom.
Clover, red, after bloom.
Clover, sweet, white..
Cow peas, all analyses.
Cow peas, before Þloom.
Cow peas, in bloom to early pod.

Soybeans.
Straws:

Barley
Buckwheat.
Oat..
Rye.

Wheat.
Green Feeds:

Barley fodder...
Blue grass, Kentucky, before heading.
Blue grass, Kentucky, headed out.
Blue grass, Kentucky, after bloom.
Buckwheat, Japanese
Cabbage..
Cabbage, waste outer leaves.
Corn fodder, dent, all analyses.

TABLE III - Average Dry Matter, Digestible Crude and True Protein, and

Net Energy Values Per 100 Pounds for Ruminants-Continued

A. DRIED ROUGHAGE-Con.
Green Feeds-Con

Corn fodder, dent, in tassel. .
Corn fodder, dent, in milk.
Corn fodder, dent, dough to glazing
Corn fodder, dent, kernels glazed.
Corn fodder, dent, kernels ripe.
Corn fodder, flint, all analyses.
Corn fodder, fint, in tassel.
Corn fodder, flint, in milk.
Corn fodder, flint, kernels glazed.
Corn fodder, flint, kernels ripe. .
Corn fodder, sweet, before milk stage.
Corn fodder, sweet, roasting ears or later
Corn fodder, sweet, ears removed....
Millet, Hungarian.
Oat fodder.
Orchard grass.
Rape.
Rye fodder.
Sweet sorghum fodder.
Timothy, before bloom
Timothy, in bloom.
Timothy, in seed.
Wheat fodder.
Alfalfa, before bloom.
Alfalfa, in bloom..
Alfalfa, after bloom.
Clover, alsike..
Clover, crimson.
Clover, red, all analyses.
Clover, red, in bloom.
Clover, red, rowen.

Lbx. 14.9 19.9 25.1 26.2 34.8 20.7 10.6 15.0 21.0 27.9 10.0 20.3 21.5 27.6 26.1 29.2 16.7 21.3 24.9 24.2 32.1 46.4 27.4 19.9 25.9 29.8 24.3 17.4 26.2 27.5 34.4 16.3 16.6 23.6 20.8 24.2 18.1

Lbs.
1.1
1.0
1.3
1.1
1.5
1.0
0.9
0.9
1.0
1.2
0.8
1.2
1.0
1.9
2.3
1.7
2.6
2.1
0.7
1.8
1.3
1.5
2.8
3.5
3.3
2.1
2.7
2.3
2.7
2.7
3.3
2.3
2.9
3.2
3.0
3.1
3.5

Lbs. 0.8 0.8 1.0 0.8 1.1 0.8 0.7 0.7 0.8 0.9 0.6 0.9 0.8 1.1 2.0 1.1 1.7 1.4 0.4 1.1 0.8 1.0 1.9 1.9 1.8 1.3 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 2.2 1.7 2.1 2.4 2.3 2.5 2.4

Therms

9.52 13.64 17.35 16.74 22.48 13.53

6.89 10.39 13.49 17.84

7.82 13.38 14.26 17.24 14.06 15.81 13.07 15.99 15.37 18.36 18.89 26.36 18.75

9.20 11.50 11.10 14.56 10.83 15.87 16.74 17.30 10.42

9.78 12.53 10.44 12.70 11.95