July 24, 1916 



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Table I. — Results of digestion experiments with hard palates of cattle in a simple mixed 



diet — Continued 



SUMMARY 



The average amount of food eaten per subject per day was 1,129 S m - 

 which furnished 564 gm. of water, 131 gm. of protein, 127 gm. of fat, 292 

 gm. of carbohydrates, and 15 gm. of ash. The uniformity of values 

 obtained in the different experiments for the digestibility of the carbo- 

 hydrates and the close agreement of the average value, 97.6 per cent, 

 with the value, 97 per cent, given for the digestibility of carbohydrates 

 in the ordinary mixed diet 1 would indicate that care had been observed 

 in the collection of the feces. The digestibility of fat is of interest, in 

 that practically all of the fat of the diet was obtained from the butter, 



'Atwater, W. O. On the digestibility and availability of food materials. In Conn. Storrs Agr. Exp. 

 Sta. 14th Ann. Rpt., 1901, p. 245. 1902. 



