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per day. In the case of milch cows a yield of 20 lbs. of milk 

 would contain 0.03 lb. lime, and from this it may be concluded 

 that approximately the amount of lime required by milch cows 

 is 0.13 lb. per day. 



The food capacity of an average cow or steer may be taken 

 as approximately, 100 lbs. of green fodder per day. Among 

 the fodder samples analyzed, a large number were found to 

 contain so small an amount of lime that in order to obtain 0.13 

 lb., the animals would have to eat green fodder much in excess 

 of 100 lbs. per day. 



Fodders Low in Lime. — The following examples will suffi- 

 ciently illustrate this: 



Sample % Lime Lbs. green fodder necessary to 



F furnish 0.13 lb. Lime. 



Sorghum (4) 0.05 260 



Cane Tops 0.01 1300 



" (2) 0.04 325 



Para Grass 0.06 216 



" 0.08 162 



" 0.09 144 



Kaffir Corn . ..0.01 1300 



<4 .. 0.04 325 



Millet 0.04 325 



Cassava Root 0.07 185 



" 0.04 325 



Panicum crus-galli. . . .0.02 650 



Hilo Grass 0.08 162 



Buffalo Grass 0.06 216 



Pilipiliuli 0.02 650 



Kukaipua ., 0.06 216 



Eleusine indica 0.04 325 



A number of samples of grasses both wild and cultivated, 

 were found to contain lime in excess of these figures. One 

 sample of sorghum contained 0.15%. Guinea grass (2 samples) 

 0.22 and 0.17%. Manienie or Bermuda grass, 0.14%. Paspalum 

 dilitatum (2 samples) 0.10 and 0.12%. Pili grass 0.26%. While 

 too few samples have been analyzed to warrant making any 

 general statement as to average composition, there are suffi- 

 cient data to warrant the conclusion that forage plants of the 

 grass family grown in Hawaii, are low in lime; some extreme- 

 ly so. 



Among the concentrated fodders used to increase the amount 

 of protein in the ration, many are low in lime. A sample of 



