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Tables VII and Vlll sliow tlie food consumed and the water 

 dranl^ for each lot during 103 days, the time of the experiment. 



Table VII. — Lot I — Carbonaceous. 



Dry matter. 

 Food consumed. Pounds. Pounds. 



Hay 982. 851. 



Corn 831. 742. 



Oats 119. lOG. 



Koots 1,012. 80. 



Water drank 1,020.25 



The above foods gave of digestible constituents a nutritive ratio 



of 1 to 8.4.* 



Table VIII. — Lot II — Nitrogenous. 



Dry matter. 

 Food consumed. Pounds. Pounds. 



Hay ,1,330. 1,152. 



Bran 447. 391. 



Linseed meal 335 . 305 . 



Cottonseed meal 336. 308. 



Roots 1,292. 102. 



Wateir drank 2,203 . 



This ration gave of digestible constituents a nutrative ratio of 

 I to 3.5. 



It may be seen from Tables VH and VIII that the lot fed the 

 nitrogenous or nari'ower ration consumed 348 pounds, or about 

 thirty-five per cent, more of hay and 1G8 pounds, or about seven- 

 teen per cent, more of grain. As each lot received all the hay and 

 grain they would readily consume, it is apparent that the greater 

 consumption of food and the greater increase in live weight of lot 

 H was due to the difference in the ration^ for at the beginning the 

 total live weight of each lot was very nearly the same, and the two 

 lots wetre of the same apparent vigor and healthfulness. Not only 

 did lot n consume about twenty-seven per cent more dry sub- 

 stance, but the quantity of water drank was more than twice as 

 much as that drank by lot I. 



* The nutritive ratio is obtained by adding the carbohydrates, or nitrogen free-extract and 

 fiber, to % times the fat and dividing by the albuminoids or protein. 



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