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tables of American feeding-stuffs. The figures 

 given are averages in per cents: 



Digestibility.— The chief value of a food 

 depends upon its palatability and digesti- 

 bility. The digestibility of some of the parts 

 of the corn plant has been determined in 

 feeding experiments, while that of other parts 

 has been computed. The per cents of digesti- 

 ble matter of some of these parts are given in 

 the following table, which is arranged from 

 figures given by Prof, W, A. Henry :f 



*Cut after kernels had glazed. 



t Special Report on the Diseases of Cattle and Cattle- 

 Fetdicg, United States Department of Agriculture, Bureau 

 of Animal Industry, Washington, 1892, p, 496. 



