68 ALFALFA 



FEED STUFFS. DIGESTIBI^E NUTRIENTS 



Digestible Nutrients. 

 Pounds per 100 lbs. feed. 



Concentrates : 



Barley 



Broom-corn seed 



Corn 



Corn-and-cob meal .... 



Cow-pea 



Cottonseed-meal 



Flaxseed 



Chicago gluten-meal ; . . 



Kafir-corn seed 



I,inseed-oil meal (old process) 



I<inseed-oil meal (new process) 



Millet seed 



Oats 



Rye 



Sorghum seed 



Soy-bean meal 



Wheat 



Wheat bran 



Wheat middlings 



Wheat shorts 



Green Roughage : 



Alfalfa 



Corn silage (well eared) . . 



Fodder corn (with ears) . . 



Pasture grasses (mixed) . . 



Sorghum fodder 



Soy-bean 



Dry RonGHAGE : 



Alfalfa hay 



Corn fodder (husked) . . . 



Cow-pea hay 



Fodder corn (planted thickly, 

 with ears) 



Millet hay 



Oat hay 



Oat straw 



Orchard-grass hay .... 



Prarie hay 



Red-clover hay 



Sorghum hay 



Soy-bean hay 



Timothy hay 



Wheat straw 



Roots and Tubers : 



Mangels 



Sugar beets 



Turnips 



Milk: 



Whole milk 



Skim-milk 



Buttermilk 



Whey 



Pro- 

 tein. 



8.9 



7.4 



7.8 



6.5 



18.3 



37.0 



20.6 



31.1 



7.8 



88.8 



87.9 



8.9 



9.3 



9.1 



7.0 



89.6 



10.2 



18.3 



18.8 



18.2 



3.9 

 1.3 

 1.0 

 8.5 

 .6 

 89.6 



10.6 

 2.0 

 10.8 



8.5 

 4.6 

 4.3 

 1.6 

 4.8 

 3.5 

 6.8 

 2.4 

 10.8 

 2.9 



1.0 



1.1 



.8 



3.2 

 3.9 

 4.0 



Carbo- 

 hy- 

 drates. 



66.7 

 56.3 

 54 2 

 16.5 

 17.1 

 43.9 

 57.1 

 32.8 

 36.4 

 45.0 

 48.3 

 69.7 

 52.1 

 22.3 

 69.2 

 37.1 

 58.2 

 50.0 



12.7 

 14.0 

 11.6 

 10.2 

 12.2 



37.3 

 33.2 

 38.6 



33.4 

 51.7 

 46.4 

 41.6 

 48.0 

 41.8 

 35.4 

 40.6 

 38.7 

 43.7 

 37.9 



5.7 

 10.2 

 6.5 



5.0 

 4.5 

 4.1 

 4.7 



Fat. 



1.6 

 8.9 

 4.3 

 8.9 

 1.1 

 12.6 

 29.0 

 4.8 

 2.7 

 7.1 

 8.7 

 3.2 

 4.2 

 1.4 

 3.1 

 14.4 

 1.7 

 8.6 

 3.4 

 3.8 



.5 

 .7 

 .4 

 .5 

 .4 

 14.4 



1.4 



.6 



1.1 



1.2 

 1.4 

 1.5 



.7 

 1.4 

 1.4 

 1.7 

 1.2 

 1.5 

 1.4 



.5 



.1 

 .1 

 .1 



3.6 

 .1 

 .1 

 .3 



Calo- 

 rics in 



one 

 pound, 



1438 

 1158 

 1567 

 1290 

 1395 

 1526 

 1925 

 1598 

 1321 

 1445 

 1310 

 1038 

 1249 

 1625 

 1830 

 1573 

 1649 

 1029 

 1371 

 1317 



314 

 251 

 257 

 855 

 1573 



948 

 680 

 965 



718 

 1104 

 1106 



857 

 850 

 972 

 926 

 741 



129 

 214 

 1& 



304 

 160 

 155 

 104 



Nutri- 

 tive 

 Ratio. 

 1: 



7.7 

 7.4 

 9.7 

 9.7 

 3.1 

 1.2 

 4.0 

 1.7 

 8.1 

 1.7 

 1.5 

 5.9 

 6.2 

 8.0 

 8.4 

 1.8 

 7.2 

 3.6 

 4.8 

 4.8 



3.5 

 11.9 

 12.5 



4.5 

 81.8 



1.8 



3.8 

 17.3 

 3.8 



14.4 

 12.2 

 11.6 

 27.0 



9.4 

 18.8 



5.8 

 18.0 



3.9 

 16.2 

 48.8 



5.9 

 9.5 

 8.4 



4.1 

 l.S 

 1.1 

 6.7 



