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of digestible nutrients In the more common American fodders, 

 grains aiid by-products, is the table that should be used in formu- 

 lating rations. The table gives the number of pounds of digestible 

 nutrients contained in 100 lbs. of the feeds, and^ these figures can, 

 therefore, be used in figuring, out the. amount of digestible 

 nutrients in any given amount of a food materiaj; it is by such 

 methods that the tables given on pages 236 to 240 are obtained. 



Analysis of Feeding Stuffs. 



Table Showing Average Afnounts of Digestible Nutrients in the 

 More Common American Fodders, Grains and By-products. 



(Compiled by the Editors of Hoard's Dairyman, Fort Atkinson, 



Wis). 



