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The following table from Henry's Feeds and Feeding shows the rela- 

 tive amount of digestible nutrients in various plants suitable for hay: 



DIGESTIBLE NUTRIENTS IN 100 POUNDS. 



Dried Roughage. 



Corn fodder 



Sorghum fodder. . . 

 Oats and pea hay. . 

 Oats and vetch hay 



Soy bean hay 



Golden Millet 



Crude 

 Protein. 



3.0 



2.8 



8.3 



6.9 



11.7 



4.8 



Carbo- 

 hydrates. 



47.3 



44.8 

 37.1 

 37.0 

 39.2 

 49.7 



Fat. 



1.0 



2.0 



1.5 

 1.4 

 1.2 



1.7 



Total. 



53.7 

 52.1 



48.8 

 47.1 

 53.6 

 58.3 



Nutritive 

 Ratio. 



16.9 



17.6 



4.9 



5.8 



3.6 



11.1 



