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zontallj, aud, if a study of these be made, it will be found that 

 just about 72 per cent of them follow our previous correlation of 

 similarity in digestion by cattle and poultry. But her'e a new 

 and closer correlation is brought out, which is that between the 

 fiber-free values for cattle and the values for poultry. With just 

 one exception, that of millet, the carbohydrates as digested by 

 cattle, minus the fiber, approach more nearly the carbohydrate 

 value for poultry. In other words, if we eliminate the fiber from 

 the nutrients digested by cattle, we apparently have, as it appears 

 from these data, the most accurate available measure of digesti- 

 bility by poultry. This is still more clearly shown where the 

 averages for the seven feeds are summarized. 



Table II. — • Comparison of IVIethods of Working Out the Value of Feeds 

 FOB Poultry Based ox Digestibh.ity of Nutrients 



Summary op Averages 

 Per 100 pounds. 



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* Computed by omitting fiber values. 



