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corn, contain approximately 3300 pounds of digestible 

 food material ; but these same plants, at the stage when 



Fig. 86. — Husking in the field. 



the ears were in the glaze, contained from 4000 to 4400 

 pounds of digestible food material. In general we may 

 say that the amount of digestible nutrients in the corn 



