STUDYING FEEDING VALUES 



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may be made to furnish vegetable growth, and many- 

 weeds are almost as good as more aristocratic plants. 

 The grains and meat will furnish an abundance of actual 

 fat and fat makers. But we need more protein, and it is 

 the wastes from other manufactures which largely sup- 

 ply the proteids wherewith we enrich and balance the 

 coarse "roughage," in making a combination feed for 

 any kind of stock. 



Just here we must feel the need of a simple table 

 which will show at a glance the chief sources of the 

 protein or muscle-making portion of our feeds. The 

 United States government is authority for the correct- 

 ness of these analyses. 



Table A. — Common High Pkotehj Feeds 



The meat meals and scraps put out by various firms 

 may run anywhere from 40 per cent upward in protein. 

 Milk albumen, another commercial animal feed, is also 

 high in this most precious element. Gluten feed, which is 

 the form now more easily procured (possibly the only 

 one), may run a little lower in protein and one half higher 



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