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FEEDING FARM ANIMALS 



By this table not only a wide difference in the 

 quantity of each constituent of each feeding stuff is 

 noticed, but also that this obtains in all feeds, with 

 no regularity of quantity for any constituent. The 

 amount of protein varies from 3.8 pounds in corn 

 stover to 45.3 pounds in cottonseed meal. In respect 



WHAT FIELD CORN CONTAINS 



When corn is analyzed nitrogen-free extract, or starch, is found to be 

 present in the largest quantity. The amount of protein is not large and the 

 ash supply is small. Corn as an exclusive food would insufficiently supply 

 the mineral elements, and there would be too little protein in proportion to 

 the starch and fat. 



to crude fiber the amount ranges from 2.2 pounds 

 in corn to 46.3 pounds in cottonseed hulls. The 

 greatest variation is with the nitrogen-free extract ; 

 it runs from 24.6 pounds in cottonseed meal to 70.4 

 pounds in corn. Much difference is observed also 

 in the fat; I.I pound is present in corn stover, but 

 this advances to ten times that in the cotton meal. 



