20 



FEEDING VALUE OF CEREALS. 



The 128 samples of Swedish Select oats grown in the United States 

 were found to have a mean composition as follows: 



TABLE XIII. Swedish Select oats. 

 [Per hundred pounds of dry matter.] 



The mean of 242 samples of recently introduced miscellaneous 

 varieties grown in the United States was found to be as follows: 



TABLE XIV. Miscellaneous introduced varieties of oats. 

 [Per hundred pounds of dry matter.] 



Nutrient. 



Total. Digestible. 



Fifty-four samples of foreign-grown oats, including most of the 

 varieties represented in Table XIV, were found to have the mean 

 composition shown in Table XV. 



TABLE XV. Foreign oats. 

 [Per hundred pounds of dry matter.] 



Table XVI gives the digestible nutrients, the total production 

 values, and the nutritive ratios of these representative groups, 

 together with a few analyses obtained from other sources, the last 

 named being calculated from the original analyses reported in the 

 places cited. 



