FACTORS FOR CALCULATING FOOD VALUES. 



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have been used in the present investigation. The coefficients of 

 digestibility as given in his tables may be illustrated as follows: 



\Vh-n cats an- iVd to horses the following amounts are digested: Percent. 



Pn. triii 80 



1- at .... 71 



Crmli- liber 29 



( urhohydrate 75 



When led to mature fattening cattle the amounts are: 



Protein 78 



I-';" 83 



( 'rude tih-r 26 



('urlx.hy. Iran- ." ' m 77 



It' i he>c ( -ocihcients are applied to a particular case for example, a 

 samp!*- of ats tlu> following percentages of the nutrients are found 

 to be available under the conditions specified: 



TABLE I. Digestibility of oats for horses and cattle. 



Nutrient. 





li'_ r ure- expreea the mean results of actual feeding experi- 

 ments and. \\hile \ariations will necessarily be introduced by each 

 individual animal, th.-v may >t ill be considered as giving fair average 



'is applicable in ordinary cases. 



The follouinL: tal>lc> -jixe the coellicients of digestibility used in 

 this bulletin, the amounts of crude nutrients as found by analysis, 

 and the digestible nutrients as calculated from these: 



TABLE II. Coefficients of digestibility. 

 [For mature fattening cattle.] 



" K.-llnor, Die Erniihrung der land wirtschaft lichen Nutztiere, 1905, pp. 561, 569. 



!>. 560. 

 Ibid., p. 561, "Spelzweizen." 



P. 561. 



hrb., 1905, 34 : 1, " Besenhirsekorn " fed to oxen. 

 / K-.-lliicr. ibid.. i>. .>>'.. "Dari." 



