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of the food nutrients which are digested and absorbed by 

 the animal. Table Number 3 gives a summary of the av- 

 erage results for some of our common feeding-stuffs. 



TABLE NUMBER III 



Average Digestibility of Feeding Stuffs, with Ruminants Expressed in 



Percentage 



(Taken from "Feeds and Feeding" by Henry and Morrison.) 



Corn Meal 



Gluten Meal 



Gluten Feed 



Hominy Feed 



Wheat Bran 



Standard Wheat Middlings . 



Barley 



Oats 



Buckwheat 



Soybean Meal 



Linseed Meal (old process) . 

 Linseed Meal (new process) 



Cottonseed 



Cottonseed Meal 



Cottonseed Feed 



Dried Brewers' Gi-ain 



Dried Beet Pulp 



Molasses Feeds 



Flesh Meal 



Fish Meal 



Timothy Hay 



Barley Hay 



Oat Hay , 



Alfalfa 



Red Clover 



Corn Silage Dent Immature 

 Corn Silage Dent Mature . 



Dry 



Matter 



90 

 88 

 86 

 83 

 65 



88 

 70 

 71 



79 

 81 

 66 



77 

 56 

 61 

 75 

 68 



71 

 55 

 59 

 54 

 60 

 59 

 64 

 66 



Protein 



Crude 

 Fiber 



74 



85 



85 



66 



78 



77 



78 



78 



75 

 92 

 89 

 86 

 68 

 84 

 58 

 81 

 52 

 61 

 93 

 78 

 48 

 65 

 54 

 71 

 59 

 53 

 51 



57 



55 



76 



76 



31 



30 



56 



35 



24 



99 



57 



73 



76 



37 



45 



49 



83 



50 



50 

 62 

 52 

 43 

 54 

 68 

 65 



Nitrogen 



Free 

 Extract 



94 

 90 

 88 

 90 

 72 

 78 

 92 

 81 

 76 

 100 

 78 

 87 

 50 

 75 

 61 

 57 

 83 

 79 



62 

 63 

 56 

 72 

 66 

 66 

 71 



Fat 



93 

 93 

 85 

 91 

 68 

 88 

 78 

 87 

 100 

 68 

 89 

 95 

 87 

 95 

 90 

 89 



100 



98 



100 



50 

 41 

 61 

 38 

 57 

 71 

 82 



