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THE ECONOMICS OF FEEDING HORSES 



poor quality food, overwork, or diseased teeth, will never 

 be got rid of by means of drugs, unless and until the 

 faulty management or the operating cause is got rid of. 

 The following table gives the " digestion coefficients " 

 — i.e., the percentage amounts digested by the horse of 

 the nutritive principles of the common feeding- stuffs. 

 The figures have been obtained as the result of numerous 

 experiments carried out by the authors mentioned above. 



TABLE II. 



Dig-estion Coefficients in the Horse for 100 Parts 

 of Each Material Supplied. 



* These coefficients are assumed from the composition of gram 

 and its likeness to peas. They have not been experimentally 

 determined. 



