56 The Coeorado Experiment Station. 
gram, which shows a difference in favor of the alfalfa of only 392 
calories per gram of fodder eaten. 
SORGHUM EODDER. 
§135. This fodder was grown in the extreme eastern part of 
the State without irrigation. It was cut when a few canes were far 
enough advanced to mature the seed in shock. The fodder stood in 
shock till the latter part of the winter, but was not fed till the latter 
part of the spring. The variety was Minnesota Early Amber. 
The following is the analytical data: 
TABEE EXIX. 
EODDER ANAEYSIS. 
SORGHE^M FODDER. 
TVTnis,tnrp> ... 
CORRESPONDING 
Sheep No. 1. 
Moisture . 
FECES. 
. 6.80 
Ash . 
8.17 
Ash . 
. 11.46 
Ether extract . 
1.55 
Ether extract . 
. 1.28 
Proteids . 
5.80 
Proteids . 
. 8.48 
Crude fibre . 
.. 23.26 
Crude fibre . 
. 28.16 
Nitrogen-free extract . 
. . 55.47 
Nitrogen-free extract . . 
. 43.82 
100.00 
100.00 
tabee 
EXX. 
ASH ANAEYSIS. 
SORGHUM. 
C O E.R E SP ON DIN G 
FECES. 
Percentage of ash in fodder. 
.. 8.77 
Percentage of ash in feces. . . . 11.46 
Ciflrbon . 
. 0.000 
Carbon . 
. 0.000 
Sand . 
. 30.097 
Sand . 
. 43.025 
Silicic acid . 
. 7.220 
Silicic acid . 
. 18.718 
Sulfuric acid . 
. 1.893 
Sulfuric acid . 
. 0.963 
Phosphoric acid . 
2.838 
Phosphoric^ acid . 
. 5.963 
Carbonic acid . 
. 10.395 
Carbonic acid . 
. 0.846 
Chlorin . 
. 6.859 
Chlorin . 
. 1.576 
Potassic oxid . 
. 30.980 
Potassic oxid . 
. 7.944 
Sodic oxid . 
. 0.073 
Sodic oxid . 
. 1.316 
Calcic oxid . 
4.730 
Calcic oxid . 
. 7.548 
Magnesic oxid . 
. 3.588 
Magnesic oxid . 
. 6.353 
Ferric oxid . 
0.970 
Ferric oxid . 
. 1.080 
Aluminic oxid . 
. 0.443 
Aluminic oxid . 
. 1.026 
Manganic oxid . 
0.200 
Manganic oxid . 
. 0.120 
Ignition . 
. (1.260) 
Ignition . 
. . . . (3.877) 
Sum . 
101.546 
Sum . 
.100.355 
Oxygen-Chlorin . 
. 1.546 
Oxvgen-Chlorin . 
. 0.355 
100.000 
100.000 
