642 



NUTRITION OF FARM ANIMALS 



off in the several excreta and, by difference, the percentages 

 which were metabolizable. The metabolizable energy per 

 gram of digestible organic matter is also added, since, as will 

 appear subsequently, it forms a convenient basis for the com- 

 putation of metabolizable energy when direct determinations 

 of it are not available. 



TABLE 188. APPARENT METABOLIZABLE ENERGY 



1 Estimated. 



2 Not corrected to N. equilibrium. 



