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‘same kind and condition of fodder. Hence it is generally con- 
sidered that the results of digestion experiments with sheep 
are quite applicable to cows. As digestion experiments with 
sheep are more conveniently made than with cows, sheep were 
chosen for these trials. 
In determining the digestibility of any fodder the quantities 
of the various nutrients, protein, fat, etc., fed to the animal 
during a given period, and the quantities of the same nutrients 
found in the solid excrements are estimated by analysis, and 
the differences are taken as a measure of the amount of each 
nutrient digested by the animal. 
In the following table are given the percentages of each of 
the nutrients of the various fodders which were digested. For 
example, in table 11, in the case of oats and peas, the figures 
81.5 in the column headed “ Protein,’* mean that S7agepen 
cent. of the protein of the fodder as fed, was digested by sheep 
A and B. 











TABLE II. 
Percentage of Total Nutrients of the Green Fodders Actually 
Digested.* 
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| % % % % ra ie 
Oats and peas, - - 14| A & B, | 81.5 | 73.6 | 66.4 | 57.5)| 35.0:)6770 
Oat fodder, - : - i) C & D,.| 75-3 | 60.9) 63.1 | 60.2 4ar8 a odes 
Hungarian grass, - =~) 16.1, A-& B, |.69.3.) 83.6| 70.1 1274.4 | Sees enome 
Soja beans, - - e917 | C&D, | 78.8 | 5a. | 72.0) 50, 16m ee 
Clover rowen, = - 18 | B&F, | 61.9 1.61.3 |'65.3 | 52.6 | agua Ooes 
Hungarian grass, - =) | 19 | C &-D, | 61.3 | 61-2 | 67.8)) 71.31 68.7 Goer 
Soja beans, - : = |20 | B&F, | 69.3 | 54.3'| 73.5 | 40.0.) 20:4 Gore 
Sweet corn fodder, - of 2t.t C&D, 4 65.6,/978.3) Yar eae Gree 
Sweet corn fodder, - - 22 1 B& F, | 66.5 |°81.7) 78.3. "60:7 | SOsaaenaes 
Cow peas,. - - - 23 1.C & D, | 74.0 | 5924 | 84.2)| 57.5 2300 ee 
Sweet corn fodder, - - -|.24'| C&D, | 63.3 | 78.0 | 79:1} 65, 1) 50,307 aeome 
Grass (rowen), - - | 25.| Bi& F,}-71.7 | 52.94 67.8, 63.8) agian 
Barley and peas, - =| Jo) © D, 1.77.2 | 59.9 | O1.4 |.43.57) 4G Goes 




*The digestion experiments, the results of which are here given, are printed in detail 
further on in this Report. 
Table 12, which follows, gives the percentages of the differ- 
ent nutrients actually digested. 

