
SOILING EXPERIMENTS. SI 
The following table (10) gives the percentage composition of 
the various green fodders, and of the wheat bran and corn meal, 
at the time of feeding. 
(CABLE ETO! 
Percentage Composition of Green Fodders and Grain Feeds 
Used in Soiling Experiments. * 











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ho % % ho % | % 
Oats and peas, - “ July-to;e 15, = | 16.1) 3.32 | .98) _ 6,32:)3.821.7.66 
Oat fodder, 2 - July 1O;e'1s, =) 1'10..7|" (2.67 |'1.00) "8.72 1'5:.35).1.900 
Hungarian grass, - Aug winks. 1) 21,3). 2.60 | 1243) 10530: ('5:001 2.00 
Soy bean fodder, : AUCs ers c= | 21.1) 3.78 | ..86)) 8:48-)5.50) 3 62 
Clover rowen, - eopeNe. Venda 1Ome~ 125.71 4035 |-1.25| LY.12-)6.42)2.22 
Hungarian grass, - WUC wet Ss er tO, = 1-20.2) 2.41 87) 12,58) i112. 27 
Soy bean fodder, : Aug y 26-631, =3'25.2), 3.24 11.00!) 11.80 16.94) 2,21 
Sweet corn fodder, - PLUS m2Obees hye 20.0), 1.70") 58) 12/54.14,.54) 1.24 
Cow pea fodder, - - Denil a Lovee 20,01. 3029") ).S2|-10720: 3244) 2,24 
Sweet corn fodder, - peptetsa91O. 21-7) 1207 | .O5| 13.75 14203) Lake 
Sweet corn fodder, - Pept. 24¢h25,. i) FO.8) 1.79) 53) 11-7671 3.64.1, 7° 
Soy bean fodder, 2 sept, 24 & 28, - | 24.7) '5.39| %8o) 10.58 | 5.21| 2.60 
Rowen grass, - - OGte Tas, sa} 32.01) 5.20) 1:92) 14.88.18.00) 2.68 
Barley and peas, =) We OCEQS thie 1S ie 
Ts: - PLO. Si 390i 10.83) SF LS 4.00 mins 
Wheat bran, - - = - 2 - |90.4| 18.81 | 5.53) 55.08 | 7.00] 3.99 
Corn meal, - = 2 - - - = |90.5} 11.31 | 4.72) 71.68 \1.31) 47 


* The results of these analyses are given in detail in the last part of this Report under 
“* Analyses of Fodders and Feeding Stuffs.”’ 
DIGESTION EXPERIMENTS WITH THE GREEN FODDERS. 
In the feeding experiments with milch cows on green fodders 
previously made by this Station, we were obliged to assume 
figures for the proportion of digestible nutrients from averages 
of the results of experiments made elsewhere? ‘The number of 
digestion experiments that have been made on green fodders is 
_small, and a considerable error must necessarily result from 
using averages of so few tests. In order to increase the value 
of these experiments, and with the hope of adding to the gen- 
eral knowledge of the digestibility of feeding stuffs, digestion 
experiments with sheep were made on the same fodders and 
during the same time that the green crops were being fed to the 
cows. It has been found that the different ruminating animals 
digest very nearly the same proportions of nutrients from the. 
