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The Composition of American Feeding Stuffs. 

 It was but a few years ago that we were obliged to depend upon 

 German anal^'ses for a knowledge of our cattle foods, but so much 

 work has lately been done in this country in the way of investigating 

 agricultural products that we are now well informed in regard to the 

 composition of many American feeding stuffs. Dr. E. H. Jenkins 

 of the Connecticut Experiment Station has published a much needed 

 compilation of American analj'ses, and here follow his tables as 

 given in the report of the Connecticut Experiment Station for 1887. 

 Under the head of each ingredient can be seen the minimum, maxi- 

 mum and average percentages as found by the several analyses 

 made. For instance, in the case of protein in timothy hay, the left 

 hand column shows that fifty-three analyses have been made, and 

 the column headed protein shows that the lowest percentage found 

 was 4.2, the highest 9.6, and the average 6.06. 



