Part II. 



FEEDING STUFFS. 



CHAPTER Yin. 



LBADENG CEEBALS AND THBIE BY-PEOBTJOTS. 



I. Indian Com and its By-produds. 

 Digestible nutrients and fertilizing constituents. 



Name of feed. 



Dry 



matter 



in 100 



pounds. 



Digestible nutrients 

 in 100 pounds. 



Pro- 

 tein. 



Carbo- 

 hy- 

 drates. 



Ether 



ex- 

 tract. 



Fertilizing constitu- 

 ents in 1,000 pounds. 



Nitro- 

 gen. 



Phos- 

 phoric 

 acid. 



Pot- 



Average of all analyses, 



Dent com 



Flint corn 



Sweet com 



Corncob 



Com and cob meal 



Corn bran 



Gluten meal 



Germ meal 



Starch refuse 



Orano-gluten 



Hominy chops 



Glucose meal 



Sugar meal 



Starch feed, wet 



Lbs. 

 89, 



91. 

 89, 

 84, 

 90, 

 91, 

 89, 

 91, 

 94, 



91 

 93 

 34 



.2 



Lbs. 



7.9 



7.8 



8.0 



8.8 



0.4 



4.4 



7.4 



25.8' 



9.0 



11.4 



26.7 



7.5 



30.3 



18.7 



5.5 



Lbs. 



66.7 

 66.7 

 66.2 

 63.7 

 52.5 

 60.0 

 59.8 

 43.3 

 61.2 

 58.4 

 38.8 

 55.2 

 35.3 

 51.7 

 21.7 



Lbs. 



4.3 

 4.3 

 4.3 

 7.0 

 0.3 

 2.9 

 4.6 



11.0 

 6.2 

 6.5 



12.4 

 6.8 



14.5 

 8.7 

 2.3 



Lbs. 



18.2 

 16.5 

 16.8 

 18.6 



5.0 

 14.1 

 16.3 

 50.3 

 26.5 

 22.4 

 49.8 

 16.3 

 57.7 

 36.3 



9.8 



Lbs. 

 7.0 



.6 

 5.7 

 12.1 

 3.3 

 8.0 

 7.0 

 5.1 

 9.8 



4.1 

 1.0 



Lbs. 

 4.0^ 



6.0 

 4.7 

 6.8 

 0.5 

 5.0 

 5.2 

 1.5 

 4.9 



0.3 

 1.0 



153. General characteristics. — Indian corn is the best relished 

 grain available for our domestic animals, their fondness for it 

 being remarkable. A possible explanation of this fact may lie 

 in the large amount of oil which the corn grain carries; again, 

 on mastication com breaks into flinty, nutty particles, and is 



