46 STORRS AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 
Coefficients of Digestibility used in Calculating the Digestible 
Nutrients in the Different Feeding Stuffs 
Used tn these Rations. 









| CARBOHYDRATES, 
| 
KInb. Protein. Fat. | Nitrogen- 
| free Fiber. 
| Extract. 
% By: la % % 
Wheat bran, - Bg 2 : : 78% 76* | 72% 33+ 
Teinseéd: mealst se lek Lie oan ere 86+ got | 804 50+ 
Cotton seed meal, - : 4 89* TOOTS) One 337 
Pea meal, - - : = : Sad ic aioe be 54® | g4* 26* 
Corn meal, - - : - Sei e7Or O20 a Fis 58+ 
Corn and cob meal,* - : - ies a 82* 84* 28% 
Gluten meal, - - : ; Si iiel Sy 88* Ore 53 
Malt sprouts, - - ; : : 8rt 68 t+ 76+ 64+ 
Good quality hay, - 5 3 Sune saa 54% Ga eae 
Poor quality hay, - : : * 45* 28* 60* 46* 
Rowen hay, 5 2 - - = O02 46t 67+ 64t 
Corn stalks (stover), -- s : = ers 62 sel 64* 66* 
Corn silage, - : 2 t Ane ae 80* 6a 69% 
Lurmips, etc i= : - - sie ie ee ie? aha Q5* 80* 

* From results of American digestion experiments. 
+ From tesults of German digestion experiments. 
In order to show the range of variation from day to day in 
the feeding of the same herd, the minimum and maximum 
daily rations per 1,000 pounds live weight and per average 
weight of each herd are appended to these tables. The size of 
the rations is here measured by the fuel value of the digestible 
nutrients (protein, fat, ete.). A ration which has a large fuel 
value may have a small amount of a given kind of food or a 
given kind of nutrients. Hence it sometimes happens that the 
minimum of one of the nutrients furnished by a certain kind 
of feeding stuff in a given tation may be greater than the 
_ average of the nutrients in that ration. The same may happen 
conversely, in the case of the maximum. 
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