EXPERIMENT STATION EEPORT. 



323 



CORN-MEAL AND COBS. 



[Collected of Chas. Parsons, Northampton, Mass.] 



78.63 per cent, passed through mesh of 144 to the square inch. 



The rate of digestibility of corn cobs lias been stated of 

 late by E. Wolff as follows : 42 per cent, of protein, 52 per 

 cent, of non-nitrogenous matter, and 30 per cent, of the fat. 

 Whether these values are the results of actual feeding ex- 

 periments, or an approximation by this distinguished author, 

 I am not prepared to decide. There is but little doubt, 

 however, that the addition of cobs to meal deserves recog- 

 nition in regard to their nutritive value as well as to their 

 beneficial mechanical influence upon the digestion of the 

 corn-meal. For analysis of corn cobs, see report of Mass. 

 Board of Agriculture for 1879, pages 240-244. 



