DIGESTION EXPERIMENTS WITH SHEEP AND STEERS. 



199 



COEFFICENTS OBTAINED WITH STEERS ALONE. 



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 60.2 



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 35.4 



70.4 



36.5 



72.5 



38.6 



85.4 





90.6 





93.4 





Hay alone, 16 lbs. ration 



Hay 10 lbs., corn meal 6 lbs 



Hay 10 lbs., gluten feed 6 lbs . . . 



Corn meal 



Gluten feed (10 hay to 6 gluten) 

 Gluten feed (10 hay, 3 gluten) . . 



114 



% 

 58.8 



115 



68.9 



116 



70.9 



115 



84.3 



116 



87.6 



117 



90.0 



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47.8 



% 

 54.7 



51.9 



65.8 



74.0 



68.0 



56.4 





86.6 





86.0 





% 



66.1 

 78.4 

 74.2 

 90.4 

 85.4 

 89.5 



% 

 45.4 



61.0 



63.7 



76.8 



80.2 



DESCRIPTION OF EXPERIMENTS. 



Experiment No. 86. — Clover silage. In the Station report 

 for 1900, page 141, are given the results of a digestion experi- 

 ment on clover silage. The results there given, especially on 

 protein, were so much lower than those obtained from clover 

 hay that it was thought desirable to repeat them. The results 

 here given on page 196 are even lower than the others obtained, 

 showing that the digestibility of clover is materially decreased 

 by ensiling. The clover was chopped and well packed in the 

 silo and came out in as good condition as any leguminous plant 

 usually does. 



Experiment No. 87. — Clover hay. The material used in this 

 experiment was the same as was made into silage. It will be 

 observed that the dry matter of this hay is 13 per cent and the 

 protein over 21 per cent more digestible than in the silage. 



Experiments No. 88-95. — Timothy hay. The hay used in this 

 experiment was late cut and rather poor quality, as shown by the 

 analyses and digestibility. It was prepared by chopping to 

 about 2-inch lengths several hundred pounds, enough to last 

 through the experiments with grain rations for the season, and 

 thoroughly mixing to- make it uniform. The hay was not very 

 palatable and only small rations could be fed without some 

 being left in the feed boxes. The coefficients obtained with the 

 sheep are somewhat lower than those from the steers and are, 

 probably, too low for the hay when fed with grain. 



