560 



invested, rent of buildings, etc. In tlie calculations of financial results 

 the following valuations were used : 



Feeding stuffs per 100 pound'*. 



Cents. 



Hay (including clover hay) GT) 



Straw and chaff (of cereals) 22 



Pea straw 28 



Lupines 100 



Maize meal 130 



Barley meal 1 14 



AMieat bran 87 



Cotton-seed meal 137 



Peanut meal 135 



Palm nut meal 114 



Poppy cake 95 



Diffusion residue of beets 6. 5 



Potato residue 8. 1 



iirf iccight of uuimulH jur pnund. 



Cents. 



Oxen, before fattening '). 6 



Oxen, after fattening 6. 2 



Sheep T). 6 



Milch cows 5. G 



Milk jier jjound. 1.08 cent.s. 



Vahial'lr iiifiiidinitii of /rrlilhrrii per pound ( potnok not reckoned), 



CciitJi. 



Nitrogen 13. 



Phosphoric acid 4.3 



£xpin><e of rare and keeping of animah (exrhinire of food). 



Centa. 



Milch cows per head jier day 6. 



I'at telling <attle per head jier day 4.0 



Fattening Hhec|> jicr ten head j>cr <lay 3. 8 



The liiniKMs to whom the details of tlic «'\]M'riiM('nts wnc intrusted 

 carried th<Mn mit with lideiity and ac«nia<y that arc conuncudrd in the 

 hifjhcst terms. 



The statements of metliods and results which follow arc taken mostly 

 frimi the iinlilislu-d rei>ort, but use has also been made of nnimldislied 

 (lata kindly supplied by Messrs. Ma«'rek«'r and .Mor;,fen. in tlie tables 

 that have been constructed from thedata tlius made available, comiinta- 

 tions not inchnled in theorifjinal Iia\ e lieen added, namely, those ol" the 

 ])otcntial energy (fuel value) ofthc digestible nutrients — 1 gram of <liges- 

 tible protein or <'arbohydrates being assumed to yield 4.1 and 1 gram of 

 digestible fats 0.3 Calories. (The method of making these «*stimat«'S is 

 exidained iu Experiment Station Record, vol. i, p. -08. As there 



