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tribution of live stock. Eleven prominent com states, 

 producing something over seventy-five per cent of all 

 the com of the United States, produce practically 

 sixty per cent of the horses, mules, cattle, hogs, 

 milch cows and sheep of the country. From these 

 states are drawn the chief supplies of well-finished 

 beeves and hogs, and well-developed horses and mules. 

 They are the feed yards of the nation. It is a signifi- 

 cant fact also that in this territory are concentrated 

 the , great , herds of blooded horses, cattle, hogs and 

 sheep. A country pre-eminently adapted to com 

 growing is at once pre-eminently adapted to the pro- 

 duction of a high class of live stock. Even the stock- 

 men and dairymen on the high priced lands of the 

 east find it profitable, indeed necessary, to make corn 

 the basis of the rations for their stock. 



CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF CORN 



In accompanying tables in Appendix will be found 

 the average chemical composition of the grain, mill 

 products, etc, of the different types of corn. 



A more detailed study of the chemical composi- 

 tion of the corn kernel has been made by the New 

 Jersey experiment station. One hundred grams of 

 com kernels were separated as nearly as possible into 

 skin, germ, and starchy and hard portion, and the 

 different parts analyzed, with the result shown below : 



-'ERCENTAGE COMPOSITION OF DRY CORN KERNEL 



