CHOICE OF FORAGE CROPS 



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ENERGY VALUE OF ROUGHAGE IN 100 POUNDS 



FEEDING STUFF 



TOTAL DR.Y 

 MATTER 



DIGESTIBLE 



TRUE 

 PROTEIN 



NET 

 ENERGY 

 VALUE 



Pounds 



Green fodder and silage : 



Alfalfa 28.2 



Clover, crimson .... 19.1 



Clover, red 29.2 



Corn fodder, green . . . 20.7 



Corn silage 25.6 



Hungarian grasn .... 28.9 



Rape 14.3 



Rye 23.4 



Timothy 38.4 



Hay and dry coarse fodders : 



Alfalfa hay 91.6 



Clover hay, red .... 84.7 



Corn forage, field cured . 57.8 



Corn stover 59.5 



Cowpea hay 89.3 



Hungarian hay .... 92.3 



Oat hay 84.0 



Soybean hay 88.7 



Timothy hay 86.8 



Straws : 



Oat straw 90.8 



Rye straw 92.9 



Wheat straw 90.4 



Roots and tubers : 



Carrots 11.4 



Mangel-wurzels .... 9.1 



Potatoes 21.1 



Rutabagas 11.4 



Turnips 9.4 



Pounds 



2.50 

 2.19 

 2.21 

 .41 

 1.21 

 1.33 

 2.16 

 1.44 

 1.04 



6.93 

 5.41 

 2.13 

 1.80 



8.57 

 3.00 

 2.59 

 7.68 

 2.05 



1.09 

 .63 

 .37 



.37 

 .14 

 .45 



.88 

 .22 



Therms 



12.45 

 11.30 

 16.17 

 12.44 

 16.56 

 14.76 

 11.43 

 11.63 

 19.08 



34.41 

 34.74 

 30.53 

 26.53 

 40.76 

 44.03 

 26.97 

 38.65 

 33.56 



21.21 

 20.87 

 16.56 



7.82 

 4.62 

 18.05 

 8.00 

 5.74 



These values have been secured wholly from experi- 

 ments on fattening cattle. 



"Even for this purpose many of them are confessedly approxi- 

 mate estimates, and still less can they be regarded as strictly 



