Now, having determined wliat is required daily by one or sev- 

 eral animals, we must know how to supply that material in the 

 most readily available and cheapest form. To do this we must 

 know the composition of our feeding stuffs, and chemists have 

 given us table B, which supplies that information. 



TABLE B. 

 Feeding Stuffs. 



1,000 lbs. of, contain. 



Digestible. 



Albuminoids. 



Non- 

 Albuminoids. 



Nutritive 

 Ratio. 



Herdsgrass (timothy) hay 



Redtop hay 



Mixed hay. . 



.Mixed hay and clover . . . 



Salt marsh hay 



Clover hay 



Vetch hay 



Oat hay 



Winter rye hay 



Millet hay 



Rowen 



Oat straw 



Bean vines 



Corn stover 



Ensilage (Northern corn). 

 Ensilage (Southern corn). 



Ensilage (sweet corn) 



Pasture grass 



Green rye 



Potatoes 



.Sugar beets 



Corn and cob meal 



Corn meal 



Barley meal 



Oats, ground 



Buckwheat, ground 



Linseed (old ]:)rocess) 



Linseed (new process).. . . 



Cottonseed meal 



Shorts 



Middlings 



Gluten 



Brewers' grains (wet) 



Malt sprouts 



Cow's milk (whole) , 



.Skim milk 



Butter milk 



14 



10 



12.8 



9-5 

 20 



5-7 



4 



9-2 



5 



9-7 



6.1 



30 



7-3 

 19 

 10 



9.6 



8 



4.4 



6.4 

 12.4 



6-5 

 9-3 

 9.2 



6.9 



5-9' 

 8.7 

 1.9. 



1-5 

 1-3 



4 



4-3 

 2.4 



3-4 

 2.8 

 4.6 

 2.1 



1-5 



