AGKIOl'LTUKAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 



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The first lot lived mostly in pens out of doors, having shelter 

 from inclement weather. The other lots were grown in indoor pens. 



A careful record of food consumed and weights of animals was 

 kept. The food was weighed daily and the animals once a week. 



The foods were not analyzed, but are assumed to have the 

 average composition, which for milk and grains may be safely re- 

 garded as involving only a small error. 



By the use of the figures given in Jenkins' and Winton's tables, 

 and of digestion co-efficients selected from American and German 

 work, the following percentages of digestible material are found to 

 be contained in the food used in these experiments, and these per- 

 centages have been applied in calculating the digestible organic 

 nutrients actually consumed. 



TABLE XLIX. 



• COMPOSITION OF FOODS USED IN FEEDING EXPERIMENTS WITH SWINE. 



b o 



0.3 



Digestible nutrients in 100 

 pounds. 



m 



Corn meal 



Fancy middlings 



Gluten meal 



Mangolds* 



Oats (ground) — 



Pea meal 



Skimmed milk... 

 Sugar beets* 



89.4 

 89.3 

 90.4 

 11.7 

 89.0 

 89.5 

 10.0 

 16.2 



80.8 

 67.3 

 82.5 



9.0 

 60.2 

 79.2 



9.2 

 15.0 



8.8 

 12.0 

 25.3 

 .93 



9.1 

 17.8 



3.5 



1.42 



74.3 

 53.6 

 49.8 



S.l 

 47.2 

 59.4 



5.2 

 13.4 



3.S5 

 3.2 



4.85 

 .12 



4.15 

 .59 



* Actual analyses were made of these materials. 



In the tables which succeed, may be found a statement of the 

 results of these experiments. 



