HORSES. 



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The Coefficient of Digestibility. 



PROBLEMS. 



1. What is the coefficient of digestibility, or in other words the 

 percentage of digestible protein in clover? 



SOLUTION : By referring to the foregoing table page 198 we find 

 from the composition of clover that 4.4 per cent is protein and that 

 3.44 pounds per hundred is digestible protein ; hence the problem is : what 

 per cent is 3.44 of 4.4? 



1% of 4.4 = .044 



3.44 _=_ .044 = 78 9 / 



.-. 78 9 /u is the coefficient of digestibility. 



2. What is the percent of digestible fat in timothy? 



3. What is the digestible coefficient of crude fiber in oats? 



corn? 



4. What is the digestible coefficient of nitrogen-free extract in dent 



p 



5. What per cent of crude fi'ber in oats, is digestible? 



The following experiment was carried out at Fort Riley, 

 through the co-operation of the Kansas State Agricultural Col- 

 lege, the Secretary of War, and the Secretary of Agriculture. 



