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MAINE STATE COLLEGE 



TABLE LVI. 



EXPEEIMEXT IS "WHICH THE SKIMMED MILK WAS REPLACED ET NITROGENOUS 

 FOODS, WHOLLY OR IX PART. 



Digestible organic food con- 

 sumed for each pound of 

 gain in live "weight. 













































*- 



- ~ 



— r 3 •— 



> 



is do 



*- £C — "» 

































~ 



— — 



«^ r" — r — 



Lot 1 — Growth from one to lour im inth^. 



Food, skimmed milk, corn meal and beets 3. IS 2.4; 



Food, gluten and corn meal and beets 3.78 



Food, pea meal, oat meal and beets 3 .42 



Lot 2 — Growth from four to nine months. 



Food, skimmed milk* and corn meal 3.2S 



Food, skimmed milkf pea meal, oat meal and com 

 meal 3.27 



-•Amount of milk daily, thirty pounds. 



-Amount of milk daily, fifteen pounds. Part only of the skimmed milk was. 

 replaced by the pea and oat meals. 



TABLE LVII. 



EXPERIMEXT IX WHICH OXE EATIOX CONTAINED PEA MEAL IX THE PLACE OF 

 SKIMMED MILK IX THE OTHER RATION. 



Digestible organic food con- 

 sumed for each pound of 

 gain in live weight. 



c - 



Growth from 1 to 4i months. (Period 1.) 











2.11 



2.36 



2.03 



Growth from 4i to 6 months. (Period 2.) 









Food, skimmed milk, pea meal and corn meal 



3.20 



3-80 



3.20 



Growth from 6 to Sh months. (Period 3.) 









Food, equal parts pea meal, oat meal and corn meal. 



i ■ ■ ■■ 



5. ST 



3.52 



Growth from Si to over 10 months. (Period 4.; 











4.19 



3.80 



4.02 



