AVERAGE COMPOSITION OF COMMON CATTLE FOODS. 



Water. 



Ash. 



Protein. 



Soluble 

 Carbohy- 

 drates. 



Fibre. Fat. 



* Hay, red top 



* Hay, Timothy 



* Hay, clover 



* Hay, Hungarian 



* Oat fodder 



* Rye fodder, in bloom 



* Corn stover 



t Corn silage 



* Corn, N. H. Flint 



* Corn, Western Dent 



* Corn meal 



IT Hominy feed 



* Oats, whole 



IT Corn and oats, pure 



§ Wheat bran, spring 



§ Wheat bran, winter 



H Wheat middlings, white 



V Wheat middlings, brown . . 



TT Wheat feed 



IT Gluten feed 



H Gluten meal 



I Distillers' Grains 



t Brewers' Grains 



J Malt sprouts 



V Linseed meal, old process. 

 IT Linseed meal, new process. 

 H Cottonseed meal 



8.9 



13.2 



15.3 



7.7 



8.9 



8.5 



40.1 



80.5 



10.1 



10.6 



15.0 



9.0 



11.0 



12.0 



10.6 



11.7 



11.3 



10.6 



10.8 



8.6 



8.8 



8.8 



8.0 



11.0 



9.8 



9.1 



6.9 



5.2 

 4.4 

 6.2 

 6.0 

 6.2 

 5.9 

 3.4 

 1.5 

 1.5 

 1.5 

 1.4 

 2.8 

 3.0 

 2.2 

 6.0 

 5.9 

 2.7 

 3.8 

 4.3 

 1.2 

 0.7 

 1.8 

 3.8 

 5.8 

 5.5 

 5.8 

 7.2 



7.9 



5.9 



12.3 



7.5 



7.6 



9.7 



3.8 



1.6 



11.6 



10.3 



9.2 



11.0 



11.8 



9.8 



16.3 



15.2 



15.8 



17.8 



17.0 



26.3 



35.5 



32.1 



23.1 



27.1 



33.9 



35.2 



44.6 



47.4 

 45.0 

 38.1 

 49.0 

 45.1 

 43.4 

 31.9 

 10.0 

 70.2 

 70.4 

 68.7 

 65.0 

 59.7 

 68.5 

 53.0 

 54.8 

 62.5 

 57.0 

 58.1 

 53.4 

 50.3 

 34.9 

 49.4 

 42.6 

 35.7 

 38.4 

 25. 1 



28.6 



29.0 



24.8 



27.7 



29.3 



30.2 



19.7 



5.8 



1.1 



2.2 



1.9 



3.6 



9.5 



3.3 



9.4 



8.5 



3.5 



5.5 



5.1 



6.9 



1.6 



11.0 



10.8 



1.9 

 2.5 

 3.3 

 2.1 

 2.8 

 2.3 

 1.1 

 0.6 

 5.5 

 5.0 

 3.8 

 8.6 

 5.0 

 4.2 

 4.7 

 3.9 

 4.2 

 5.3 

 4.7 

 3.6 

 3.1 



11.4 

 4.9 

 1.6 

 7.8 

 3.0 



10 fi 



* Composition of American Feeding Stuffs. Jenkins and Winton. 



t Analyses made at the N. H. Expt. Sta., 1895-1899. 



§ Penn. Exi)t. Sta. Bull. 48. 



V Compiled from Feed Insi)ecti()n Reports of various states. 



X Hatch E.xpt. Sta. Bull., No. 94. 



