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4. FERTILIZING CONSTITUENTS OF AMERICAN 

 FEEDING STUFFS 



This table is the one prepared by the Office of Ex- 

 periment Stations, U. S. Department of Agriculture, 

 and published in the Handbook of Experiment Sta- 

 tion Work, Bulletin No. 15. 



Phos- Potas- 



phoric slum 



Moisture Ash Nitrogen acid oxide 



% % % % % 



Green Fodders 



Corn fodder 78.61 4.84 .41 .15 .33 



Sorghum fodder ...... 82.19 . . .23 .09 .23 



Rye fodder 62.11 . . .33 .15 .73 



Oat fodder . 83.36 1.31 .49 .13 .38 



Common millet ...... 62.58 . . .61 .19 .41 



Japanese millet 71.05 . . .53 .2 .34 



Hungarian grass (German 



millet) 74.31 . . .39 .16 .55 



Orchard grass (Dactylis 



glomerata}* 73.14 2.09 .43 .16 .76 



Timothy grass (Phleum pra- 



tense)* 66.9 2.15 .48 .26 .76 



Perennial rye grass (Lolium 



perenne}* 75.2 2.6 .47 .28 1.1 



Italian rye grass (Lolium 



italicum}* 74.85 2.84 .54 .29 1.14 



Mixed pasture grasses . . 63,12 3.27 .91 .23 .75 



Red clover (Trifolium pra- 



tense) 80. . . .53 .13 .46 



White clover (Trifolium re- 

 pens) 81. .56 .2 .24 



Alsike clover (Trifolium hy- 



bridum) 81.8 1.47 .44 .11 .2 



Scarlet clover ( Trifolium in- 



carnatum) 82.5 . . .43 .13 .49 



Alfalfa (Medicago svtiva) . 75.3 2.25 .72 .13 .56 



*Dietrich and Konig: Zusamensetzung und Verdaulichkeit der Fnttermittei. 



