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Feeds and Feeding 



Table II. Average digestibility of American feeding stuffs — continued. 



Feeding stuffs 



Dry 

 mat- 

 ter 



Pro- 

 tein. 



Carbohydrat's 



Roughage — con. 



Cured hay -from the grasses, 



etc. — con. 



Buflfalo grass BulbUis Dactyloides-. 



Chess or cheat, Bromus secalinus 



Colorado upland hay, largely Agro 



pyrum tencrum 



Ripe crab grass, Eragrostis Neo Mej 



icanna 



Meadow fescue, Festuca elaiior pra 



tensis, in bloom 



Buttercup, Eanunculus acris 



White weed (Ox-eye daisy), Leucan- 



themum vulgare 



Indian potato, Ataenia gairdneri 



Common sunflower, Wyethia mollis . 

 Balsam root, Balsamorhisa sagit- 



tata 



Wild carrot, Leptotaenia muUifida-- 



Dandeloin, Crepis intermedia 



Bitter brush, Kunzia tridentata 



Little lupine, Lupinus, sp 



Cured hay from the legumes 



Alfalfa, average all trials 



First crop alfalfa, budded to full 



bloom 



Second crop alfalfa, budded to full 



bloom 



Third crop alfalfa 



Red clover 



Red clover, in bloom 



Red clover, late bloom 



Alsike clover 



Crimson clover 



White clover 



Clover rowen 



Co\\T)ea 



Soybean 



Peanut vine 



Spring vetch, Vicla sativa 



Winter or hairy vetch, Vicia villosa 



Sanfoin 



Serradella 



Straw and chaff 



Wheat 

 Rye __. 

 Oat — 

 Barley 

 Rice __ 



39 



Per ct. 

 55 

 45 



56 



53 



61 

 56 



58 

 67 

 61 



66 

 69 

 62 



77 

 68 



62 



17 63 



Per ct. 

 54 



42 



62 



58 



52 

 56 



Per ct. 

 65 



46 



59 



60 



67 

 41 



58 46 

 57 74 

 70 54 



Perct. 



62 

 49 



57 



53 



59 

 67 



67 

 65 

 61 



75 

 83 

 78 

 86 

 75 



Per ct. 



62 

 32 



34 



43 



54 



70 



62 



77 

 63 



74 

 81 

 33 

 71 

 75 



