Part II. 

 FEEDING STUFFS. 



CHAPTER Vm. 



LBADma CEREALS AND THEIE BY-PEODUOTS. 



I. Indian Com and its By-products. 

 Digestible nutrients and fertilizing constituents. 



Name of feed. 



Dry 

 matter 

 in 100 

 pounds. 



Digestible nutrients 

 in 100 pounds. 



Carbo- 

 hy- 

 drates. 



Fertilizing constitu- 

 ents in 1,000 pounds. 



Nitro- 

 gen. 



Phos- 

 phoric 

 acid. 



Lbs. 



Average of all analyses 



Dent com 



Flint corn 



Sweet corn 



Corncob 



Com and cob meal 



Com bran 



Gluten meal 



Germ meal 



Starch refuse 



Orano-gluten 



Hominy chops 



Glucose meal 



Sugar meal 



Starch feed, wet 



Lbs. 



7.9 



7.8 



8.0 



8.8 



0.4 



4.4 



7.4 



25.8 



9.0 



11.4 



26.7 



7.5 



30.3 



18.7 



5.5 



Lbs. 



66.7 

 66.7 

 66.2 

 63.7 

 52.5 

 60.0 

 59.8 

 43.3 

 61.2 

 58.4 

 38.8 

 55.2 

 35.3 

 51.7 

 21.7 



Lbs. 



4.3 

 4.3 

 4.3 

 7.0 

 0.3 

 2.9 

 4.6 



11.0 

 6.2 

 6.5 



12.4 

 6.8 



14.5 

 8.7 

 2.3 



Lbs. 



18.2 

 16.5 

 16.8 

 18.6 

 5.0 

 14.1 

 16.3 

 50.3 

 26.5 

 22.4 

 49.8 

 16.3 

 57.7 

 36.3 



Lbs. 

 7.0 



Lbs. 

 4.0 



5.7 

 12.1 

 3.3 

 8.0 

 7.0 

 5.1 

 9.8 



6.0 

 4.7 

 6.8 

 0.6 

 5.0 

 5.2 

 1.5 

 4.9 



4.1 

 1.0 



0.3 

 1.0 



153. General characteristics. — Indian com is the best relished 

 grain available for our domestic animals, their fondness for it 

 being remarkable. A possible explanation of this fact may lie 

 in the large amount of oil which the corn grain carries; again, 

 on mastication com breaks into flinty, nutty particles, and is 



