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APPENDIX 



Composition of Feeds 



Average Dry Matter^ Digestible Nutrients and Fertilizing Constituents in Some 



Common Feeds* 



Amount in 100 Pounds 



Feeds 



Alfalfa hay 



Barley (grain) 



Brewers' grains (dried) 



Clover hay, alsike 



Clover hay, crimson 



Clover hay, Japan 



Clover hay, red 



Clover hay, sweet (white) 



Clover and timothy hay (mixed) . . . . 



Corn, dent 



Corn, flint 



Corn meal, 



Corn silage (well matured) 



Corn stover (ears removed, very dry) 



Cottonseed meal (good) 



Cowpeas 



Cowpeas hay 



Germ oil meal (high grade) 



Gluten feed (high grade) 



Gluten meal 



Johnson grass hay 



Mangels 



Milk, cow's (whole) 



Milk, skim 



Millet hay (common) 



Mixed grasses, hay 



Oats 



Oats straw 



Oil meal (old process) . 



Potatoes 



Rice meal 



Rye 



Soybeans 



Soybeans hay 



Sugar beets (roots) 



Tankage (high grade) 



Timothy hay 



Wheat 



Wheat bran 



Wheat middhngs (shorts) 



Wheat screenings 



Whey 



Dry 

 matter 



91 4 

 90 7 

 92.5 



87 

 89 

 88 

 87 

 91 



87 8 

 89.5 

 87.8 

 88.7 

 26.3 

 90.6 

 92.1 

 88.4 

 90.3 

 91.1 

 91.3 

 90.9 

 89.9 



9.4 

 13.6 



y ,y 

 87.5 

 87.2 

 90.8 

 88.5 

 90.9 

 21.2 

 90.5 

 90.6 

 90.1 

 91.4 

 16.4 

 92.5 

 88.4 

 89.8 

 89.9 

 89.6 

 89.9 



7.5 



Digestible Nutrients 



Crude 

 pro- 

 tein 



10 6 

 9 



21 5 

 7.9 

 9.7 

 8.6 

 7.6 



10.9 

 4.0 

 7 5 

 7 

 6, 

 1 



31 6 



19.4 



13.1 



16.5 



21.0 



30 2 



2 9 



0.8 



3.3 



3.6 



5.0 



4.3 



9.7 



1.0 



30.2 



1.1 



7.3 



9.9 



30.7 



11.7 



1.2 



56.3 



3.0 



9.2 



12.5 



13.3 



9.6 



1 



Carbo- 

 hy- 

 drates 



39.0 

 66.8 

 30.5 

 36.9 

 36.8 



41 

 39 



39.7 

 67.8 

 66.1 

 69.0 

 15.0 

 47.8 

 25.6 

 54 5 

 33.7 

 42.6 

 51.9 

 43.9 

 45.0 

 6.4 

 4-9 

 5.1 

 46.0 

 44.3 

 52.1 

 42.6 

 32.6 

 15 8 

 48.1 

 68.4 

 22.8 

 39 2 

 12.6 



42*8 

 67.5 

 41.6 

 46 3 

 47.3 

 4.5 



Fat 



0.9 

 1.6 

 6.1 

 1.1 



3.5 





 1 

 7 

 1 

 1 



10 

 3 

 4 

 1.0 

 0.0 

 4.3 

 0.2 

 1.8 

 1.2 

 3.8 

 0.9 

 6.7 

 0.0 



10.6 

 1.2 



14,4 

 1.2 

 0.04 



12.7 

 1.2 

 1.5 



3 



4 3 

 3 6 

 0.7 



Fertilizing 

 Constituents 



Nitro- 

 gen 



(N) 



2 38 

 1.84 



2.05 

 2.26 

 1.94 

 2 05 

 2.32 

 1.38 

 1.62 

 1 66 

 1.49 

 0.34 



94 

 6.02 

 3.78 

 3.09 

 3.62 

 4.06 

 5.68 



1 06 



22 

 0.56 

 0.61 

 1.33 



1 22 

 1.98 

 5S 

 5.42 

 0.35 

 1.89 

 1.89 

 5.84 

 2.56 

 26 

 9.7 



99 



1 98 



2 56 

 2 77 



2 13 

 16 



Phos 



phorus 



(P) 



236 

 0.37 

 0.431 

 305 

 27 

 0.45 

 0.17 

 29 

 2 

 3 

 296 

 0.283 

 069 

 0.196 

 1.16 



0!41 



575 



27 



0.24 



0.183 



0.017 



0.083 



0.096 



0.157 



0.157 



0.353 



09 



0.742 



0.052 



0r32 



0.594 



0.296 



0.035 



2.14 



0.135 



375 



1.286 



92 



0.322 



052 



Potas- 

 sium 

 (K) 



1.85 

 0.614 

 075 

 1.44 

 1.86 

 1.72 

 1.35 

 1.05 

 1.58 

 332 

 324 

 31 



36 



1 07 

 1 49 

 1 24 

 3 43 

 21 

 19 

 0.1 

 0.94 

 0.18 

 0.14 

 0.14 

 1.78 

 1.36 

 465 

 1.245 

 1.054 

 0.044 



0'.473 



2.05 



1.93 



0.265 



0.72 



1.13 



0.44 



1.344 



0.98 



0.63 



0.215 



For other feeds consult Productive Feeding of Farm Animals, WolL 

 * Compiled from Feeds and Feeding, Henry and Morrison, 15th Edition, 1915. 



