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Table b.— Rations actually fed to homes and digestible nutrients and energy in rations 

 calculated to basis of 1,000 pounds live weight— Conthmed. 



« This value represents total carbohydrates plus 2.25 times the fat. 



The figures in the above table, showing the amounts eaten by army- 

 horses in the United States and other countries and by horses belong- 

 ing to cab companies, etc., in foreign countries, were compiled from 

 various sources, though in many cases the data have been recalculated, 

 using, as previously noted, the values for composition and digestibility 

 included in Tables 1 and 2. These figures are included chiefly for pur- 

 poses of comparison with those showing the nutrients and energy in 

 the ration of American work horses, especially those used by cab com- 

 panies, express companies, and other private firms, and by farmers in 

 diflerent regions of the United States. 



It will be noticed that the number of feeding stuffs used in making 

 up the rations fed is not large, oats and corn being the common grains, 

 and hay, usually timothy, the common coarse fodder. The amounts 

 of nutrients and energy in the different rations of the hor.ses making 

 up the different groups varied within rather wide limits, which is not 

 surprising when it is remembered that the horses were fed under many 



