10 N. H. AGR. EXPERIMENT STATION [Bulletin 149 



AVERAGE COMPOSITION OF COMMON CATTLE FOODS. 



Water. 



Alfalfa 8.4 



•Hay, red top | 8.9 



♦Hay, Timothy 13.2 



♦ Hay, clover 15.3 



♦ Hay, Hungarian 7.7 



♦Oat fodder 8.9 



♦ Rye fodder, in bloom 8.5 



♦ Com stover 40 . 1 



tCom silage 80.5 



♦ Corn, N. H. Flint 10.1 



♦ Corn, Western Dent 10.6 



♦ Corn meal 15.0 



IT Hominy feed 9.0 



♦Oats, whole 11.0 



IT Corn and oats, pure 12.0 



§ Wheat bran, spring 10.6 



§ Wheat bran, winter 11.7 



IT Wheat middlings, white 11.3 



Wheat middlings, brown 10.6 



IT Wheat feed 10.8 



Gluten feed 8.6 



Gluten meal 8.8 



I Distillers' Grains 8.8 



Brewers' Grains 8.0 



t Malt sprouts 11.0 



IT Linseed meal, old process 9.8 



IT Linseed meal, new process. ... 9.1 



IT Cottonseed Meal i 6.9 



Ash. 



7.4 

 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 

 6.9 

 2.7 

 3.8 

 4.3 

 1.2 

 0.7 

 1.8 

 3.8 

 5.8 

 5.5 

 5.S 

 7.2 



I Soluble 

 Protein. Carbohy- 

 drates. 



14.3 



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 



46.0 

 47.4 

 45.0 

 38.1 

 49.0 

 45.1 

 43.4 

 31.9 

 10.0 

 70.2 

 70.4 

 68.7 

 65.0 

 69.7 

 68.5 

 53.0 

 54.8 

 62.5 

 57.0 

 68.1 

 53.4 

 60.3 

 34.9 

 49.4 

 42.6 

 35.7 

 38.4 

 25.1 



Fibre. 



25.0 



26.6 



29.0 



24.8 



27.7 



29.3 



30.2 



19.7 



6.8 



1.1 



2.2 



1.9 



3.6 



9.5 



3.3 



9.4 



8.6 



3.5 



5.5 



5.1 



6.9 



1.6 



11.0 



10.8 



11.9 



7.3 



8.5 



5.6 



Fat. 



14.0 



1.9 



2.5 



3.3 



2.1 



2.8 



2.3 



1.1 



0.6 



5.6 



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 

 4.0 

 1.6 

 7.8 

 3.0 



10.6 



♦ Composition of American Feeding Stuffs. .Tenkins and Winton. 



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



§ Penn. Expt. Sta. Bull.. No. 48. 



II Compiled from Feed Inspection Reports of various states. 



t Hatch Expt. Sta. Bull., 5^0. 94. 



