Digestion Experiments With Wethers. 7 



The two tables above show how much error is involved 

 in compounding by eastern feeding tables a ration containing 

 Wyoming-grown alfalfa. If an amount of alfalfa is fed that 

 would give a nutritive ratio of 5 :2 according to eastern tables, 

 a nutritive ratio of only 4.7 is secured. 



A better balanced ration would be as follows : 



REVISED RATION FOR FATTENING LAMB OF IOO POUNDS WYO- 

 MING ANALYSES OF ALFALFA. 



(See previous table for source of figures.) 



It will be seen that this ration much more nearly approx- 

 imates the standard than does the ration compounded from 

 average analyses. 



It seems necessary, then, that new feeding tables be made 

 for the use of ranchmen in this state, and below will be found 

 such a table for alfalfa and native hays in so far as data has 

 been secured for them : 



AVERAGE DIGESTIBLE NUTRIENTS IN WYOMING FEEDING STUFFS. 



* Water-loving species, called "native hay" elsewhere in this bulletin. 



