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POULTRY CULTURE 



Average Digestible Nutbients in Poultry Feeds 



The data of this table for the digestible nutrients are derived 

 mainly from Bulletin 22, Office of Experiment Stations, U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture, Washington; Handbook for 

 Farmers and Dairymen, Woll; Farm Foods, Wolff (English 

 edition, Cousins), and Zusammensetzung der Futtermittel, 

 Dietrich and Konig. 



Name of feed 



Digestible nutrients in 100 pounds 



Protein, 

 pounds 



Carbohy- 

 drates, 

 pounds 



Ether 

 extract, 

 pounds 



Concentrates 



Corn, all analyses 



Dent corn 



Flint corn 



Sweet corn 



Corn-cob 



Corn and cob meal 



Corn bran 



Gluten meal 



Germ meal 



Starch refuse 



Grano-gluten 



Hominy chops 



Glucose meal 



Sugar meal 



Starch feed, wet 



Hemp-seed 



Wheat 



High-grade flour 



Low-grade flour 



Dark feeding flour 



Wheat bran 



Wheat bran, spring wheat 

 Wheat bran, winter wheat 

 Wheat shorts 



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 



10.0 



10.2 

 8.9 

 8.2 

 13.5 

 12.2 

 12.9 

 12.3 

 12.2 



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 

 30.4 



69.2 

 62.4 

 62.7 

 61.3 

 39.2 

 40.1 

 37.1 

 50.0 



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 



20.5 



1.7 

 0.9 

 0.9 



