AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 



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Food Eaten and Feces Excreted. 



Sheen 1 J Timothy Hay (CXLj 



bliee P I '{ Sugar Beets 



Sheep 3, " " "« 



Sheen 2 ( Timothy Hay (CXL) 



Sheep4, " •' " 



Sheen 1 I Timothy Hay (CXL) 

 oneep l, j Ruta Ba „ as 



Sheep 3, " " " 



Sheen'' { Timothy Hay (CXL) 

 oneep-,j Engi F]at Turnips# . 



Sheep 4, " " " 



Food eaten daily. 





500 

 2000 



500 

 2000 



500 

 2000 



500 

 2000 



461-8 

 325. 



461.8 

 234.6 



i} 



461.8 

 219. 



461. S 

 195.2 



Feces excreted daily. 



fa 



540.8 



463.2 



591.8 



509.2 



432. 



460. 



■464. 



994. 



* 



210.4 

 208.8 

 245.4 

 238.5 

 213.5 

 225.5 

 209.8 

 201.6 



Digestion Coefficients of Various Roots. 





6 



O 



a 

 Q 



£ 

 a 



be 



o 



.d 



CO 



< 



e* 



CO 



X 



B 



p 



£ 



u 

 o 



£ 



CO 



Bo 



4i 

 3j 



Sugar Beets, Sheep 1 



94.2 

 94.8 



97.6 

 99.9 



98.7 



82.7 

 87. 



43.2 

 20.7 



31.9 

 21 1 



11.7 



90. 

 92.6 



88.5 

 113. 



99.8 

 100. 



53.5 

 46.4 









94.5 



77.1 



SO. 



91.3 



69.7 

 79.8 



100.7 



26.8 

 58.8 



99.9 



90.8 

 91.9 



49.9 

















78.5 



90. 



84.5 



84.8 



93. 



89.2 



16.4 



45.8 

 16.7 



74 7 



85.9 



74.7 



42.8 



87.5 

 61. 



91. 3 



94.4 

 95.1 







91.6 



" 3 



76.8 









87 2 

 90.7 

 94 9 



911 



93.2 

 99. 



31.2 



64.1 

 53.2 



80 3 



84 5 

 95. 



74.2 



89.2 

 117. 



94. 7 

 96. 



97. 



84.2 



82.5 







92.5 









92-8 



96.1 



58.0 



89.7 



103. 



96.5 



97.5 



Digestibility of Gluten Meal and Wheat Bran. 

 Time of experiment, February, 1891. 

 Animals used, Sheep. 



Dailv ration I 500 S rams Timotn y ha y, 

 3 ' ( 300 grams grain. 



Total period, 12 days. 



Feces collected, last five da3 7 s. 



There were two reasons for making digestion experiments with 

 these two commercial cattle foods, viz : No attempt appears to 

 have been made to learn the digestibility of gluten meal, and a 

 former trial gave such unfavorable and somewhat unexpected 



