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Henry. In these tables from which this is made up, however, 

 water and mineral matter are not considered as digestible 

 nutrients, while in the following table they are so considered. 



CARBOHYDRATE CONCENTRATES 

 Dry Feeds 



Green Feeds 



According to the observations and work of the writer it 

 seems advisable also to classify water as a nutrient and to 

 assume, since the pig requires more than is present in ordinary 

 feed stuffs, that the entire quantity is digestible. Hence, in 

 the foregoing table the entire water content is given under the 

 head of digestible nutrients. The mineral matter, included 

 in the table under this head, is also the total ash content of the 

 feeds as obtained from composition tables. 



