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Nutritive Value of the Georgia Velvet Bean 
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Experiment VI, Lot LXXVIII.—(Charted in fig. 6.) This experi¬ 
ment showed that the velvet-bean hulls offer no supplementing value 
to the deficient proteins in the seed, neither was there any appreciable 
change in the character of growth when, atpointa,2iper cent of dextrin 
was replaced by 21 per cent velvet-bean leaves. 
Experiment VII, Lot LXXVI.—(Charted in fig. 7.) It is apparent 
from this experiment that the hulls in the velvet bean, unlike those in 
Pig. 6.—^Velvet bean, 53 per cent; hulls, 7 per cent; salts (No. 32), 4 per cent; butter fat, s per cent; d^trin, 2^ 
per cent. Dextrin carried alcoholic extract of 10 grams ether-extracted wheat embryo. At point a the 
21 per cent dextrin was r^laced by 21 per cent velvet bean leaves to furnish protein. Dotted lines 
r^resent normal curves of growth. 
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J^G, 7.—Velvet bean, 53 per cent; hulls, 7 per cent; salts (No. 32), 4 per cent; butter fat, s per cent; casern, s 
per cent; dextrin, 26 per cent. At point a the 26 per cent dextrin was substituted by 26 per cent velvet- 
bean leaves to furnish the water-soluble vitamine. 
8,—^Velvet bean, 53 per cent; hulls, 7 per cent; butter fat, 5 percent; casein,s per cent; dextrin, 30 
per cent. At point a 10 per cent dextrin was replaced by to per cent velvet bean leaves to furnish salts- 
i Dextrin carried alcoholic extract of 10 grams ether-extracted wheat embryo. 
the rice kernel, are not carriers of the B vitamine. When, however, at 
point a 26 per cent dextrin was replaced by an equivalent amount of 
velvet-bean leaf a striking change in the character of growth was obtained 
in all cases. 
Experiment VIII, Lot LXXIX.—(Charted in fig. 8.) The hulls offer 
very little supplementing value to the seed in so far as salts are con¬ 
cerned, but as low as a lo per cent concentration of velvet-bean leaves 
furnishes a very satisfactory source of salts when added to 53 per cent 
d the seed. 
