460 APPENDIX 



6. FERTILIZING CONSTITUENTS OF AMERICAN 

 FEEDING-STUFFS 



This table is the one prepared by the Office of Ex- 

 periment Stations, United States Department of Agricul- 

 ture, and published in the Handbook of Experiment 



Station Work, Bulletin No. 15. phos potas 



phoric sium 



Moisture Ash Nitrogen acid oxide 



% % % % % 

 Green Fodders 



Corn fodder 78.61 4.84 .41 .15 .33 



Sorghum fodder 82.19 .. .23 .09 .23 



Rye fodder 62.11 . . .33 .15 .73 



Oat fodder 83.36 LSI .49 .13 .38 



Common millet 62.58 . . .61 .19 .41 



Japanese millet 71.05 .. .53 .2 .34 



Hungarian grass (German millet) 74.31 . . .39 .16 .55 

 Orchard grass (Dactylis glomer- 

 ate)* 73.14 2.09 .43 .16 .76 



Timothy grass (Phleum pratense)* 66.9 2.15 .48 .26 .76 

 Perennial rye grass (Lolium 



perenne)* 75.2 2.6 .47 .28 1.1 



Italian rye grass (Lolium itali- 



cum)* 74.85 2.84 .54 .29 1.14 



Mixed pasture grasses 63.12 3.27 .91 .23 .75 



Red clover (Trifolium pratense) . . 80. . . .53 .13 .46 



White clover (Trifolium repens) ..81. . . .56 .2 .24 

 Alsike clover (Trifolium hybri- 



dum) 81.8 1.47 .44 .11 .2 



Scarlet clover (Trifolium incar- 



natum) 82.5 . . .43 .13 .49 



Alfalfa (Medicago sativa) 75.3 2.25 .72 .13 .56 



Cowpea 78.81 1.47 .27 .1 .31 



Serradella (Ornithopis sativus).... 82.59 1.82 .41 .14 .42 



Soja bean (Glycine soja) 73.2 . . .29 .15 .53 



Horse bean (Vicia faba) 74.71 . . .68 .33 1.37 



White lupine (Lupinus albus) .... 85.35 . . .44 .35 1.73 



Yellow lupine (Lupinus luteus)*.. 83.15 .96 .51 .11 .15 



Flat pea (Lathyrus syhestris)* 71.6 1.93 1.13 .18 .58 



Common vetch (Vicia sativa)* ... 84.5 1.94 .59 1.19 .7 

 Prickly comfrey (Symphytum as- 



perrimum) 84.36 2.46 .42 .11 .75 



Corn silage 77.95 . . .28 .11 .37 



Corn and soja-bean silage 71.03 . . .79 .42 .44 



Apple pomace silage* 75. 1.05 .32 .15 .4 



*Dietrich and Konig: Zusamensetzung und Verdaulichkeit der Futtermittei. 



