174 AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. [Jan. 



Period XIY. 



Winter Wheat Bran. 

 Sheep I. 



Sheep II. 



Total consumed, as above, 

 328.31 grams manure air dry, 



Total digested. 

 Minus hay digested. 

 Remains winter wheat bran digested 

 Per cent, digested, 

 Average per cent, two sheep digested 



776.67 

 305.69 



470.98 

 305.75 



165.23 

 63.83 

 62.25 



193.71 

 83.54 



110.17 

 103.76 



6.41 

 23.29 

 14.33 



29.58 



10.94 



18.64 

 8.30 



10.34 

 80.39 

 66.70 



98.24 

 32. SO 



65.44 

 33.68 



31.76 

 78.05 

 78.17 



398.66 

 142.39 



256.27 

 142.62 



113.65 

 71.76 

 71.90 



Average nutritive ratio of ration for two sheep, 1 : 6.23. 



See tables containing compilation of all American diges- 

 tion experiments, at the end of this report. 



