32 FEEDING VALUE OF CEREALS. 



TABLE XXII. Emmer and einkorn analyses average results Continued. 



WHEAT ( Triticum vulgare). 



The wheat samples analyzed for this investigation comprise only a 

 small number representing the principal classes of American wheat 

 and a few samples of American and foreign durum. In explanation 

 of the seeming neglect of this important cereal, it may be said that 

 the primary object of this study was the analysis of oats, barley, rye, 

 emmer, einkorn, proso, and sorghum; wheat and maize were only 

 introduced when it became desirable to report the chemical results 

 alone in the form of a bulletin. Furthermore, there have been many 

 extended series of analyses made of both of these cereals, and for 

 the purposes of comparison such results can readily be used. 



The digestible nutrients in the wheat samples analyzed and in 

 typical groups as taken from other sources are given in Table XXIII. 



TABLE XXIII. Wheat digestible nutrients, production value, and nutritive ratio. 

 [ Pounds per hundred pounds of dry matter.] 



a U. S. Dept. Agr., Bureau of Chemistry, 1895, Bui. 45, pp. 45, 47. 



b Loc. cit., p. 422. 



c Loc. cit., p. 421. 



d Loc. cit., p. 418, 419. 



< Calculated. 



/ U. S. Dept. Agr., Bureau of Chemistry, 1898, Bui. 13, Pt. IX, p. 1189. 



Xo direct comparison can be made between foreign and domestic 

 wheat, as was done with both oats and barley, because the domestic 

 grain was not the product of directly introduced foreign wheat. In 

 the case of the durum wheat this was true in a general way, but not 

 as with the other cereals. 



