40 MAINE STATE COLLEGE 



The experiments of this year disclose no especial differences 

 in the digestibility of the Southern, Field and Sweet Corn 

 fodders. 



(4.) The digestion trials with roots show them to be the 

 most digestible of any of the foods tested, the amount of 

 waste material beine very small, averaging not over 8 pes: 

 cent, of the whole. 



(5.) The Gluten Meal, which is a waste product in the 

 manufacture of glucose from corn, was digested to the extent 

 of 89 per cent, of its dry organic matter, which does not differ 

 at all from the figures given in the German tables for the 

 entire grain. The treatment which the grain receives in eon- 

 verting the starch into glucose does not seem to afiect the 

 digestibility of the refuse. 



(6.) The second trial of the digestibility of American wheat 

 bran gives average figures almost similar to those obtained in 

 the first trial, and shows this cattle food to be but slightly if 

 any more digestible than good hay. and much inferior in this 

 respeat to grains such as maize, oats, barley, etc. 



