FEEDING STUFFS. 



AVERAGE COMPOSITION OF AMERICAN 

 FEEDING STUFFS. 



Feeding Stuffs. 



Greeti Fodders and 

 Silage. 



Pasture grass 



Green fodder corn 



(maize) 



Alfalfa (lucern) 



Green clover 



Alsike clover, in bloom 



Rye fodder 



Oat fodder 



Sorghum fodder 



Red top, in bloom... 

 Meadow fescue, in 



bloom 



Timothy 



Blue-grass 



Prickly comfrey.. . . . 



Corn silage 



Corn silage, Wis. anal. 



Clover silage 



Sorghum silage 



Hay and Dry Coarse 

 Fodders. 



Fodder corn (maize), 

 field cured 



Same, Wis. analyses.. . . 



Corn stalks (stover) 

 field cured 



Hay from red clover. 



Hay from mammoth 

 clover 



Hay f'm alfalfa (lucern) 



Hay from alsike clover, 



Oat hay 



Timothy hay 



Hay from mixed mea- 

 dow grasses 



Hay from Hun. grass.. 



Flax hay 



Crab-grass hay 



Marsh hay 



Oat straw 



Barley strawt 



Wheat straw 



Rye straw 



Buckwheat straw 



Pea vinet 



Percentage Composition.* 



80.0 



79-3 



71.8 



70.8 



74.8 



76.6 



62. 



79- 



64.8 



69.9 



61.6 



65. 



88.4 



79- 



73-6 



72.0 



76.1 



42.2 



29.0 



40 



'5-3 



B.4 

 9-7 

 8.9 

 13.2 



16 

 7-7 



14-3 



10.3 

 7-9 

 9.2 



14.2 

 9.6 

 7-1 

 9.9 



13.6 



2.5 



7-4 

 II. 6 



t. 

 9- 



10.8 



II 

 9 



1.6 

 6.0 



7- 



8.4 



6.4 



14.3 



3-» 19-7 

 12.3 24.8 



6.1 10.7I24.5 

 7.4 T4.3 25 



8.3 12.8 25.6 



6.2 7.629.3 



4.4 5-9, 29-0 



6.4I29 

 7-5|27 



4-037- 

 3-5|36. 

 3-438. 

 3-ol38. 

 5-2 43- 

 9-o,35- 



9-7 



12.2 



12.3 

 13-5 



36.5 



33 

 42 

 40 

 45 

 450 



4T 

 49 -o 



30 



41.0 

 46.3 

 42.4 

 390 

 43-4 

 46.6 

 5-J 

 33-7 



8.0 



•519-5 

 •025.5 

 .1 27 

 •9 23-- 

 .6I21.6 

 •4I35-3 

 •5 19-5 

 .2132.9 



.828 

 1.2 36 

 I 3 32 



•31 9-4 

 -8ii9 

 .924 

 1.2 25.4 

 .322.8 



1-655 

 1.766.8 



1.1:56 

 3-378 



3-9 72 

 2.2 84 

 2.9 82 

 2.984 

 2.5 82 



Per cent 



Digestible 



Matter. 



* l-a'gely from Jenkins and Winton's Compilation of Analyses of 

 Aintncan Feeding Stuffs. t Konig. 



