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INDIAN COEN CULTURE. 



Corn-meal. Corn-and-eob meal. 



Number of analyses. . .77 7 



Water 15.0 per cent 15.1 per cent. 



Ash 1.4 per cent 1.5 per cent. 



Protein (N. X6.25) 9.2 per cent 8.5 per cent. 



Crude fibre 1.9 per cent 6.6 per cent. 



Nitrogen-free extract.. 68. 7 per cent 64.8 per cent. 



Fat 3.8 per cent 3.5 per cent. 



Composition of by-products. — In these same 

 feeding tables are given analyses of the by- 

 products and waste material of corn, including 

 the cob and refuse of starch or hominy mills. 

 The averages of these analyses are as follows, 

 in per cents: 



Corncobs 



Hominy chops . . 



Corn germ 



Gluten meal 



Starch feed, wet. 



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0.5 

 8.3 

 7.4 

 6.3 

 3.1 



These figures show corncobs to contain some 

 nutriment. Gluten meal has a veiy high feed- 

 ing value, as based on a large per cent of pro- 

 tein. 



Composition of green corn. — The composi- 

 tion of the green corn plant, of silage, and of 

 the dried fodder, and the several parts of the 

 lilant, is given in the following table which 

 is also arranged from Jenkins' and Winton's 



