I40 STORRS AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 
COMPOSITION OF NEW ENGLAND FEEDING STUFFS. 
| BY CHAS. D, WOODS. 
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The Reports of the Connecticut Experiment Station for 
1888, and previously, have given compilations of the analyses of 
American feeding stuffs, by Dr. E. H. Jenkins. Experiment Sta- 
tion Bulletin No. 11 of the Office of Experiment Stations of the U. 
S. Department of Agriculture, contains a detailed compilation 
by Messrs. Jenkins and Winton of nearly all American analyses 
which were published before Sept. 1st, 1890. It includes ‘all 
the analyses of American feeding stuffs which were accessible to 
the compilers at the time the work was done, with the exception 
of those which were so incomplete or so obviously erroneous as 
to leave no doubt about the propriety of excluding them.” 
The coarse fodders used in New England are, for the most 
part, grown in New England. For the past few years this Sta- 
tion has collated for its own use the analyses of New England 
grown fodders. As we have found these averages to differ con- 
siderably from the averages of all American analyses, it has 
seemed wise to print our compilation.* A few words of expla- 
nation of terms, are given with the hope of making the table of 
analyses more easily understood. 
Feeding stuffs are ordinarily divided into two classes: Coarse 
fodders, hay, stover, ensilage, etc., and concentrated feeds, as the 
* The following averages of analyses of Hungarian hay illustrate the differences in compo- 
sition referred to: 









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ee | 
HUNGARIAN Hay. Water. | Protein. Fat. a ae | Fiber. | Ash, 
iy | 
ere aps | 
Average of compilations by penne t % ts rg | fe % 
and Winton, - - ~ 7.7 7.5 2.0 °\* | ote one ante 6.0 
ca of New England analyses, - 24.2 7.2 2.3 36.9. - 1) 23.9 57 


These differences in composition were largely due to water content, but that they were not 
entirely due to the different percentages of water is shown by the composition calculated to 
water-free substance as follows: 








HunGaRIAN Hay, | Protein. Fat. | eee Fiber. | Ash. 
Average of Eon patie by Ue st and % % % & 
Winton, - - - | 8.1 Oo tere ae 30.0 6.5 
ETEIHEE | of New ‘England aialraas. - - 9.6 Ura wi vee tongs: OTE 75 


