rv 1S ad Gilbert* a ago showed that in a fattened ox there | 
oe cent of ine live weight of the animal as, follows : 
Per cent. 
3.92 
ne id Seana 
Pound 8. 
141.9 
It appears, therefore, that there was used in building up these 
s 0.47 per cent of the total dry matter fed to them; 9.77 per 
of the nitrogenous matter, and 8.35 per cent of the mineral 
@ iter or ash present in their food. 
a eAlt. the Sona annual report of this Station, page 23, the results 
Waa 
hott 
Rican of which cost 14.27 cents, there was recovered in the solid 
unure three and seven- -eights cents worth of phosphoric acid, 
potash and nitrogen, and in the liquid manure six and one-sixth 
ents worth of these constituents, equal to seventy per cent of the 
arket value of the food fed; the nitrogen being equal in value 
‘0 fifty-one per cent of the market value of the food; the phos- 
rn ts. daily. ihe Leiter the same relative value of these hee 
rtilizing constituents was secured in the manure, it would 
