COMPOSITION, VALUE, DIGESTIBLE ALBUMEN, ETC. 225 



Table I. 



Composition, Value, Digestible Albumen Content, Starch Value and Albumen- 

 Starch Value Ration of Feeding Stuffs.i^ 

 (Copyrighted) 



Crude Digestible ^ 



Nutrients . Nutrients . g 



. ' ; -i . ^1 



^ - JO 2 V ^ ci!«« 



Feeding Stuffs £ ^(2£„-mP4 -^^S fe-^ ^g-^ 





I. Green Forage 



Grasses i Per Cent 



Grass, just before bloom.. 75.0 6.0 2.12.0 0.4 9.1 3.9 87 1.5 13.1 1:8.7 



(1.3-2.3) (10-13.5) 



Pasture 80.0 4.0 2.0 2.5 0.4 7.3 2.6 91 1.7 11.1 1 : 6.5 



Corn, European seed 80.6 5.6 1.2 1.0 0.3 6.7 3.183 0.6 9.1 1:15.2 



b. Clovers and Legumes. 



Red Clover, ^ ^ 



beginning of bloom 81.0 5.2 1.6 2.5 0.5 6.3 3.0 86 1.7 10.2 1: 6 



(1.4-2.1) (9-10) 



Alfalfa, before bloom 76.0 6.8 2.3 3.2 0.4 6.3 2.9 79 1.7 9.1 1 



c. Other Forage Plants. 

 Buckwheat, in bloom 83.7 4.3 1.11.6 0.3 5.2 2.5 87 1.1 8.1 1 



d. Leaves and herbs. 

 Sugar-beet tops and leaves 83.8 1.6 4.8 1.7 0.1 6.6 1.2 84 1.4 8.7 1 



II. Silage. 

 Sugar-beet tops and leaves 77.0 3.4 7.4 1.5 0.3 7.2 2.5 91 0.2 9.5 1 



III. Hay. 



a. Meadow Hay and Grasses. 



Good Meadow Hay 14.3 26.3 6.2 5.4 1.0 25.7 15.0 67 3.8 31.0 1: 8.2 



(2.5-6.5) (19-40.5) 



b. Clovers and Legumes. 



Good red clover 16.5 24.0 6.0 8.5 1.7 26.0 11.3 70 5.5 31.9 1 : 5.8 



(4.0-7.0) (25-35.6) 



c. Foliage, herbs, leaves. 



Leavesoftrees,endof July 16.0 14.2 7.0 6.2 2.4 32.5 5.3 82 3.7 37.7 1:10.2 



i3With the permission of the publishers, Paul Parey, Berlin, tbese tables have been copied from 

 Kellner, "Die Emaehrung der Landwirtschaftlichen Nutztiere," 8th edition, 1919. The author 

 takes this opportunity to express again his sincere thanks for this privilege. For the sake of 

 convenience the author has added the ratio of the digestible albumen to the starch value. 



5.4 



7.4 



5.1 



47.5 



