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CANADIAN FARM YEAR BOOK. 



FEEDING AND COMPUTATION TABLES 



Average digestible nutrients in common American Feeding StuSt 



Digestible nutrients in 100 lbs. 



Dry ; 



Name of Feed Matter in Protein Carbo Ether 



\ 100 lbs. Hydrates Extract 



Roughage 

 Hay— 1 



Timothy 86.8 



Orchard Grass 90. 1 



Red Top 91.1 



Kentucky Blue Grass 78.8 



Hungarian Grass 92.3 



Mixed Grasses and Clover 87.1 



Oat Hay 91.1 



Barley 89.4 



Red Clover, medium 84. 7 



Red Clover, mammoth 78.8 



Alsike Clover 90.3 



White Clover 90.8 



Alfalfa 91.6 



Straw — 



Wheat 90.4 



Rye 92.9 



Oat 90.8 



Barley 85.8 



Wheat Chaff 85.7 



Oat Chaff 85.7 



Green Fodders — 



Pasture Grasses (mixed) .... -20.0 



Kentucky Blue Grass 34.9 



Timothy 38.4 



Orchard Grass 27.0 



Red Clover 29.2 



Alsike 25.2 



Alfalfa 28.2 



Fodder Com — 



Fodder corn, green 20 .7 



Fodder corn, field cured .... 57.S 



Com stover, field cured 59.5 



Corn silage 20.9 



Roots and Tubers — 



Potato 21.1 



Beet, common 13.0 



Beet, sugar 13.5 



Beet, mangel 9.1 



Flat turnip 9.5 



Rutabaga 11.4 



Carrot 11.4 



Parsnip 11.7 



Artichoke 20.0 



Concentrates 



Com 89.1 



Gluten Meal 91.8 



Hominy Chops 88.9 



Wheat 89.5 



Wheat Bran 88.1 



Wheat Shorts 88.2 



Whoat Middlings . . 87.9 



