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now in a position to enter on some general considera- 

 tions as to their relative feeding value. The following 

 table shows the quantity of digestible nutritive matter 

 in 1,000 lbs. of ordinary foods when supplied to sheep 

 or oxen. In calculating the amount of digestible 

 albuminoids it has been assumed that in the original 

 digestion experiment the amides and nitrates present, 

 being soluble bodies, have been reckoned as digestible 

 nitrogenous substance. 



DIGESTIBLE MATTER IN 1,000 LBS. OF VARIOUS FOODS. 



Cotton cake (decorticated) 

 ,, „ (undecorticatc d ) 

 Linseed cake 

 Peas 

 Beans 

 ♦Wheat 

 Oats 

 Barley 

 Maize 

 Rice meal 

 Wheat bran 

 Malt sprouts 



* In the absence of experiments, it is assumed that wheat is digested like other 

 foods of the same class. 



