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from such feed. One cow may convert a large part of all she digests into 

 milk, while another may turn it into body fat, and a third may waste it in 

 worry or in some other way we hardly know how. Still it is of prime im- 

 portance to know how much of each and all feeding stuffs is actually diges- 

 tible for we then know what portion is available. A vast deal of work has 

 been done by the chemist in analyzing feeding stuffs and conducting diges- 

 tion trials. The following table taken from Feeds and Feeding shows the 

 total dry matter and the digestible portion of all of our common feeding 

 stuffs: 



Table showing the total dry matter and the digestible nutrients in 100 

 pounds of American feeding stuffs. 



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CONCENTRATES. ^J P ~ ^ 



matter, tern, drates tract . 



NAME OF FEED. Lbs. Lbs. Lbs. Lbs . 



Corn , all analyses 89 . 1 7.9 66.7 4.3 



Dent corn 89 . 4 7.8 66 . 7 4.3 



Flint corn 88 . 7 8.0 66 . 2 4.3 



Sweet corn 91.2 8.8 63.7 7.0 



Corn cob 89 . 3 0.4 52 . 5 0.3 



Corn and cob meal 84.9 4.4 60.0 2.9 



Corn bran 90.9 7.4 59.8 4.6 



Gluten meal 91.8 25.8 43.3 11.0 



Germ meal 89.6 9.0 61.2 6.2 



Starch refuse 91.8 11.4 58. 4 6.5 



Grano-gluten - 94.3 26.7 38.8 12.4 



Hominy chops 88 . 9 7.5 55 . 2 6.8 



Glucose meal 91.9 30.3 35.3 14.5 



Sugar meal 93.2 18.7 51.7 8.7 



Gluten feed 92.2 20.4 48.4 8.8 



Wheat 89.5 10.2 69.2 1.7 



High-grade flour 87 . 6 8.9 62 . 4 0.9 



Low-grade flour - .... 87 . 6 8.2 62 . 7 0.9 



Dark feeding flour 90.3 13.5 61.3 2.0 



Wheat bran 88.1 12.2 39.2 2.7 



Wheat bran, spring wheat 88 . 5 12.9 40 . 1 3.4 



Wheat bran, winter wheat 87.7 12.3 37.1 2.6 



Wheat shorts 88.2 12.2 50.0 3.6 



Wheat middlings 87.9 12.8 53.0 3.4 



Wheat screenings 88. 4 9.8 51.0 2.2 



Rye 88 . 4 9.9 67.6 1.1 



Rye bran 88.4 11.5 50.3 2.0 



Rye shorts 90 . 7 11.9 45.1 1.6 



Barley 89 . 1 8.7 65 . 6 1.6 



Malt sprouts 89 . 8 18 . 6 37 . 1 1.7 



Brewers' grains, wet 24 . 3 3.9 9.3 1.4 



Brewers' grains, dried 91.8 15.7 36. 3 5.1 



Oats 89.0 9.2 47.3 4.2 



Oatmeal 92.1 11.5 52.1 5.9 



Oat feed or shorts 92.3 12.5 46.9 2.8 



Oat dust 93.5 8.9 38.4 5.1 



Oat hulls ... . . 90 . 6 1 . 3 40 . 1 . 6 



