1894.] 



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Market Cost of Foods consumed. 



Corn meal, $24 00 per ton. 



Buffalo gluten feed, 23 00 per ton. 



Skim-milk, , 1.8 cents jjer gallon. 



Percentage of the Essential Fertilizer Constituents in the Above 

 Articles of Fodder, and the Commercial Value of the Constituents 

 in 2,000 Pounds of the Foods. 



[Nitrogen 15 cents, phosphoric acid 5^ cents, potassium oxide 4^ cents, per pound.] 



* Allowing that thirty per cent of the nitrogen, potash and phosphoric acid is retained in 

 the system of the growing animal. 



