COEFFICIENTS OF DIGESTION 



441 



Water Ash Protein 



% % % 

 Waste Products — continued 



Wheat bran from winter 



■wheat 12.3 5.9 16. 



Wheat bran, all analyses 11.9 5.8 15.4 



Wheat middlings.....'.. 10. 3.8 17.4 



Wheat shorts 11.8 4.6 14.9 



Wheat screenings 11.6 2.9 12.5 



Rice bran 9.7 10. 12.1 



Rice hulls 8.2 13.2 3.6 



Rice polish 10. 6.7 11.7 



Buckwheat hulls 13.2 2.2 4.6 



Buckwheat bran 10.5 3. 12.4 



Buckwheat middlings.. . 13.2 4.8 28.9 



Cottonseed meal 6.8 6.2 45.6 



Cottonseed hulls 11.1 2.8 4.2 



Lins'd meal, old proc's. 8.3 5.3 35.7 



Lins'd meal, new proc's 10. 5.2 36.1 



Peanut meal 10.7 4.9 47.6 



Peanut hulls 9. 3.4 6.6 



Miscellaneous 



Acorns 55.3 1. 2.5 



Apples. 80.8 .4 .7 



Apple pomace 76.7 .5 1.4 



Beet pulp 89.8 .6 .9 



Beet molasses 20.8 10.6 9.1 



Cabbage 90.5 1.4 2.4 



Prickly comfrey 88.4 2.2 2.4 



Pumpkin (field) 90.9 .5 1.3 



Sugar-beet leaves 88. 2.4 2.6 



2. AVERAGE COEFFICIENTS OF DIGESTION 



The coeflScients of digestion which follow are mostly 

 taken from the compilation by Jordan and Hall as pub- 

 lished in Bulletin No. 77, Office of Experiment Stations. 

 Others, marked G, are from the compilation of Dietrich 

 and Konig ("Composition and Digestibility 'of Cattle 

 Foods," Vol. II). Later figures are found m Report of 

 Hatch Experiment Station, Massachusetts, 1905, and in 

 Henry & Morrison's "Feeds and Feeding," 1915. 



