AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 



51 



Amount of Digestible Material* in 100 lbs. of Foods Eaten. 



• 



.3 

 '53 



O 

 u 



P4 





03 



eu 



Si 8 



2V, 



."£ 03 



28.09 

 8.30 

 42.97 

 64.30 

 33.28 



OS 





2.95 

 1.23 



26.67 



8.16 



12.76 



15.75 

 .90 



3.50 



2 09 





.ro 





8.61 





4.33 





3.26 



Pounds of Digestible Material Eaten in 63 Days. 



Large 



r grain ratiun fur 12 



shci p. 





o 



u 



03 

 JO. 



03 

 03 



t-C 



.1= 0) 



-1-3 



c3 



fa 



Rutabagas, 1260 lbs 



37-2 



15-5 



143 3 



196.0 



198.4 



11.3 



4.7 



214.4 



353 9 

 104.6 

 3S1.9 



840.4 



33.9 

 6.3 





49.5 





89.7 



Larger turnip ration for 12 shefp. 



Timothv hav, 1260 lbs. 



Rutabagas, 3150 lbs 



Mixed grain, 505 lbs . . . 



Nutritive ratio, 1:7.7. 



37.2 



38.7 

 91.8 



198.4 



2S.3 



3. 



353.9 

 261.4 

 244 7 



167.7 



229.7 



860.0 



33 9 

 15.8 

 31.7 



81.4 



The results of the entire experiment, covering 63 days of feed- 

 ing, may be summarized as follows : 



One-half of the sheep ate during this time 1340 pounds of 

 digestible material and the other half ate 1338 pounds. The 

 difference between the two rations was simply this : that one- 

 half of the sheep received more of their food from roots than 

 did the other half, the total amount of digestible material 

 being practically the same in the two cases. One-half of the 

 sheep ate 1260 pcunds of roots and the other half ate 3150, 

 the difference in the amount of dry digestible organic material 



* The figures in this table are obtained from the composition and digestibility 

 2O™ 0t, W hays Nos - CXL and CXLI ' gluten meal CXXX1V, mid wheat bran 

 CXXXV, as found on previous pages of this report. The hay was estimated to 

 have 12.5% of Witter as fed in the barn. For the corn meal' the figures of the 

 general fodder tables were used. 



** -These turnips contained— water 87.19%, solids 12.81%, protein 1.54%, fiber 

 1.21% , N-l'-ext. 8.74% , fat .69% . 



