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DRY MATTER AND DIGESTIBLE FOOD INGREDIENTS IN 

 100 POUNDS OF FEEDING STUFFS 1 (Continued) 



Roots and Tubers: 



Ruta-bagas 



Carrots 



Grains and other seeds: 



Corn (average of dent and flint) 



Kafir corn 



Barley 



Oats 



Rye 



Wheat (all varieties) 



Cottonseed (whole) 



Mill products: 



Com meal 



Corn-and-cob meal 



Barley meal 



Ground corn and oats, equal 

 parts 



Pea meal 



Waste products: 



Rye bran 



Wheat bran, all analyses 



Wheat middlings 



Wheat shorts 



Buckwheat bran 



Buckwheat middlings 



Cottonseed feed 



Cottonseed meal 



Cottonseed hulls 



Linseed meal (old process) 



Linseed meal (new process) 



16,497 

 16,999 



157,237 



116,022 



143-499 

 124,757 

 152,400 



154,848 



160,047 



147,797 

 132,972 

 138,918 



143,202 

 130,246 



126,352 



111,138 



136,996 



131,855 



113,992 

 134,979 

 103,911 

 152,653 

 69,839 

 144,313 

 141,155 



1 From The Feeding of Farm Animals, by E. W. Allen. Farmers' Bulletin No. 22, U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., 1901, p. 8. 



In calculating rations according to the preceding tables, it is 

 only essential that the quantities of carbohydrates and fats 

 correspond approximately, because they both serve practically 

 the same purpose and an excess of one may be offset by a de- 

 ficiency of the other. 



The test of the fitness of a ration for a draft animal is the 

 ability of the animal to maintain an even weight. Generally, if 

 a healthy animal loses weight, it is an indication of insufficient 

 food, while an increase denotes an excessive ration. This does 

 not refer to minor changes in weight from day to day but to 

 changes observed over a period of several weeks. 



