6 AGRICULTURE. 



AVERAGE AMERICAN DIGESTION COEFFICIENTS 

 OF FEEDING STUFFS 



As Determined by American Experiments. (Jordan.) 



A.— Experiments with Ruminants. 

 GREEN FODDER (fed vvhen green). 



Corn (maize) fodder — 



Whole plant, average of all trials. . 



Dent, immature, Pennsylvania 



in milk, Pennsylvania 



mature, Pennsylvania 



Sorghum, North Carolina and Texas. 



Rye. Pennsylvania 



Timothy {Phleum pratense), Utah 



Hungarian ^ra.s5 {Setaria italica). Me. 



Pasture grass, Pennsylvania 



Red clover {Tn'/oliutn pratense). 



SILAGE. 



Corn (maize) silage, whole plant- 

 Average of all kinds 



Dent, immature, Maine, New York 



and Pennsylvania 



Dent, in milk, Pennsylvania. . . 

 Flint mature, Maine and New York. 



Soja-bean silage 



DRIED FODDERS (fed air-dry or partially 

 so). 



Corn (maize) fodder, whole plant — 



Average of all kinds 



Dent, immature, Maine and Penn... 

 in milk. New York and Penn.. 



mature, Pennsylvania 



Flint, mature, Maine 



Sweet, mature, Maine 



Corn (maize) butts, Maryland 



husks, Maryland 



fodder, tops above ear, 



Maryland 



pulled, Maryland, 

 North Carolina 

 and Texas. . .. 

 stover, Pennsylvania .. 

 Sorghum fodder, leaves, N. Carolina. 

 Oat straw, Maine 



