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-<— gan hi POS ee ae 
= saa S = = Me e. we = 
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Perrtop. IY. | 
Alb, Crude fiber. Nit, free Fat. 
extract.  . 
HAGAN SAV, AUS dees Ais ke Ore ee +s as 5.83 (.Uiiscarees 
Hight lbs. grain, Ibs............. .88 49 4.54 .28 
Fed total, lbs....... Bec eres: 1.85 6.32 12.25 .66 
anne excreted, ibs: .2:.. 2 Se68 .83 3.30 4.00 25 
Total digested, Ibs.......:.. 1.02 3.02 8.25 Al 
Digested from grain, as per German | 
baplesrd ae esc ae sae ane 65 .18 3.77 22 
Divested from hay.... 23s... OT 2.84 448 19 
Perscenicre wee een k Sees we 40. 49. 58. 50. 
Prrtop V. 
On account of the amount of waste, or unconsumed ration, we find 
ourselves unable to distribute the amount of albuminoid, etc., con- 
sumed among the component parts, and hence we cannot even ap- 
proximately figure the percentage of digestibility of the potatoes. 
Taking the average weight of the two cows for the four days pre- ~ 
ceding the digestion trial, and during the trial, we note a close ap- 
proximation to maintenance as follows: | 
Periods. 
“ Re 
Average weight per cow for. 
Four days preceding, lbs.... 726 745 722 719 726 ~ 
Four days of trial, Ibs...... 728 747 725 718 715 
We may hence assume with considerable probability, that upon 
the whole a maintenance weight was retained, and the various quan- 
tities of foods were near equivalents. Under this assumption, we — 
can form the following table: 
Periods. 
COL Adi 0 ae 
Av. weight of food consumed, lbs. 34.65 78.00 25.387 26.37 .61.43. 
Subtract weight of grain fed.... 8.00 8.00 + 8.00 8.00 8.00 
CETLC EL CEN, We Saal ppp Hs ats Sueall ee fc 26.65 70.00 17.37 18.87 53.48 
This interprets that about twenty-six pounds of fodder corn was 
the equivalent of seventy pounds of ensilage, or seventeen pounds 
of Soja bean, or eighteen pounds of hay, or about four pounds of 
hay and fifty pounds of potatoes, etc. Expressing these results in. 
tabular forin. 
* One day only. 
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