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Bulletin 93. 
under Colorado conditions, and the animals used were the average 
grade of sheep fattened by the hundred thousand in this valley. 
Our results are as representative of our fodders and conditions 
as they can be made. 
The coefficients found are not only lower than those usually 
given, but are lower than those given by investigators experiment¬ 
ing under very similar conditions. I have exercised every care to 
obtain correct results, and I believe that the coefficients of our 
fodders actually have a lower value than is usually given for the 
same fodders elsewhere. 
Our fodders are seldom preserved under cover, but in stacks 
or shocks out of which they usually come as green, bright, attrac¬ 
tive looking hays and fodders. They have, however, been ex¬ 
posed to our changes of temperature, our dry air and continuously 
strong light. 
I believe that the results recorded in this bulletin are verv 
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close to the facts and would tentatively suggest that the coeffici¬ 
ents of digestion for our hays and fodders are lower than the coef¬ 
ficients shown by the same fodders elsewhere. I do not know the 
reason for this, but believe that the manner of preserving the fod¬ 
ders, together with our climatic conditions, may account for it. 
