Colorado Hays and Fodders. 
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merits have been made, the most of them by Eastern experi¬ 
menters, and naturally under Eastern conditions. 
My first series of experiments gave the following results— 
corn fodder inmature: 
Dry Matter. Ash. Fat. Protein. Fibre. Extract. 
Sheep No. i. 56.43 47.08 48.04 47-46 64.07 54-90 
Sheep No. 2. 60.28 42.29 45-40 46.07 70.24 60.25 
Sheep No. 3. 58.98 39.06 44.28 48.62 69.30 57-66 
Average .58.56 42.S4 45.91 47.38 67.87 57.60 
Second series. Corn fodder, grown thinly infdrills and ma¬ 
ture enough to ripen a few ears: 
Dry Matter. Ash. Fat. Protein. Fibre. Extract. 
Sheep No. 1. 53-58 4*-39 60.43 37-i8 51-76 57-i6 
Sheep No. 2. 56.63 44.70 69.11 37.49 55.85 61.35 
Sheep No. 3. 59.77 44.83 68.69 33.45 62.52 63.28 
Average . 56.66 43.64 66.08 36.04 56.71 60.60 
The coefficients obtained for the individual sheep in the re¬ 
spective series agree as well as could be expected, and while the 
two series vary greatly, as it is proper that they should, all of the 
conditions under which the experiments were made being differ¬ 
ent in every respect. Still the results have a common feature 
when compared with the results recorded by all other American 
experimenters, i. e., they are uniformly low. This is, perhaps, 
most fairly shown by taking the averages, but, as will be noticed 
upon mere inspection, I might take the minima given by others 
and my result would still be comparatively low, but, as suggested, 
the averages may be fairer. 
The averages found in Jordan and Hall, “The Digestibility of 
American Feeding Stuffs,” are for dent and flintForn]fodder: 
Dry Matter. Ash. Fat. Protein. Fibre. Extract. 
Immature . 63.9 37-20 72.2 51.7 66.0 66.2 
Mature . 68.2 30.60 73.9 56.1 55.8 72.2 
My first series. 58.6 42.84 45.9 47.4 67.9 57.6 
My second series. 56.7 43-64 66.1 36.0 56.7 60.6 
In only one instance does the average found for any of the 
constituents given exceed the average given by Jordan and Hall, 
i. e., the coefficient found for crude fibre. With this exception 
my coefficients are all low. I will take up this point later, but 
will remark that in spite of the low coefficients obtained, the 
animals were gaining flesh, as the three made an aggregate gain 
of three and a half pounds in the five days. The ration fed was 
not, in my opinion, such as to permit any unusual portion of it to 
pass the animal without having been fully acted on by the diges¬ 
tion processes. The amount of dry matter consumed was 2.7 per 
cent, of the animal’s weight, a ratio which is by no means ex¬ 
cessive. 
