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: Weight Per cent 
in grams. of total. 
ME Ee seals Sats al ge nies vee edd cain eos Fos 561.0 61.44 
Clover (Tr. Bev IGTED )o eerie oe ew tk SY 176.0 19.28 
Various grasses (chiefly poas)............... 44.0 4.82 
White weed (L. vulgare)...... ... os ee ea ae 83.0 9.09 
Old Fog, wheat stubble and sticks........... fd fo 1.23 
MER ee og ec fe ce eee os 14.5 1.59 
Beet CP OMAIOL) cs ee ee eS 7 5 82 
May weed (anthemis cotula) ........%....... 4.0 44 
Chaff (chiefly clover and white weed). ag Teas 11.8 1.29 
913.0 100.00 


This was a bright-looking hay of good quality. It grew on a 
wheat stubble seeded the year before, and was cut and housed 
in good condition. According to this analysis one ton of 2,000 
pounds would contain of grasses, 1825.2 pounds; weeds, 238.8 
pounds; clover, 385.6 pounds; chaff and old stubble, 50.4 pounds. 
Several days of preliminary feeding were had in order that the 
animals might come under the influence of the ration. The feed 
in the preliminary was the same as during the days of the actual 
digestion experiment. 
The method employed throughout was the same* as in previous 
trials, except the dung was collected for five instead of four days. 
The samples of dung from each animal for the entire period were 
mixed and analysis made of this rather than separate analyses 
_ foreach day. The determination of water in the dung was made 
each day. 
The average daily temperature of the barn was as follows: 
Average 

temperature 
: of barn. 
ENR PS PN os es wacpln © wetele aeBnre be cas 
aa ik Ce ew en Sn RD Ge Eye ritwete 41 
A ee ae ear ie Seon, Seca evn a”. act et get ee ? 
se he es a ee ek oe Phe oan coven 47 
March 5.......... Re SSS ach, ot MESES pe ER eC aeRO Ry 48 
I Rahn oleae ho task haces s wie ss Swe oS Ow Wee Cea 49 
I eos Ee ee se neg cada shen tes 48 
MeeMiareh 8°. ......:..... soi Pave aes we ak ERAS 48 
ge ick eS (dg ko ens ea iced Le ba gh we ees 8 46 
_  *Seventh Annual Report New York Agricultural Experiment Station, 
4 _ 1888, page 270; also, Society for Promotion of Agricultural Science, 1888, 
= page 96, 
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