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FEEDING VALUE OF CEREALS. 



TABLE XXIV. Wheat analyses average results Continued. 



RYE (Secale cereale). 



As a feeding grain rye is very similar to wheat, the two being more 

 nearly alike in the essential points, namely, protein content, produc- 

 tion value, and nutritive ratio, than any other two cereals. 



There are no foreign varieties among the samples of rye analyzed 

 hi this study, so that a direct comparison of the introduced varieties 

 with the same varieties grown abroad was impossible. From other 

 analyses made in this country and from analyses reported by Konig 

 a comparison somewhat similar to that made with oats and barley is 

 possible. In Table XXV the results obtained in this study and those 

 obtained in 1893 and 1898 by the Bureau of Chemistry are com- 

 pared with foreign rye, the analyses of which are reported by Konig: 



TABLE XXV. Rye total and digestible nutrients, production value, and nutritive ratio. 

 [Pounds per hundred pounds of dry matter.] 



a U. S. Dept. Agr., Bureau of Chemistry. 1898, Bui. 13, Pt. IX, p. 1184. 

 & U. S. Dept. Agr., Bureau of Chemistry, 1893. Bui. 45, p. 37. 

 <-Loc. cit, p. 474. 



While the foreign and domestic ryes in Table XXV have no direct 

 relation to each other, as in the case of the oats and barley, and while 

 the differences are not large, it will be noticed that the same general 

 relation exists here as with the other cereals, namely, that the United 



