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TABLE 40.— Coefficients of digestibility of nutrients in different feeding stuffs 
and groups of feeding stuffs as determined by experiments with sheep. 

FEEDING STUFFS, 

Milling products (with hay). 
Min. 
Bran, corn meal, and hay, ~ Max. 
' Avg. 
Min. 
Max. 
Avg. 
Min. 
Bran, corn meal, linseed meal, 
oat and pea meal, and hay, 
Soy bean meal and timothy hay, 

mixed grasses, 
No. 2 wheat middlings and 
rowen hay, mixed grasses, 
Fine rowen and Cleveland flax 
meal, 
Coarse bran and rowen at a 
Fine rowen and Quaker oat ei 
ax; 
feed, 
Avg. 
Experiments with soy bean meal and 
timothy ‘hay calculated for digesti- 
bility of soy bean meal alone, 
Experiments with coarse bran and 
rowen hay of mixed. grasses calcu- 
lated for digestibility of coarse bran 
alone, . 
Experiments with No. 2 wheat mid- 
dlings and rowen hay of mixed 
grasses calculated for digestibility of 
wheat middlings alone, 
Experiments with Cleveland flax meal 
and fine rowen calculated for digesti- 
bility of Cleveland flax meal alone, 
Experiments with Quaker oat feed and 
fine rowen calculated for digestibility 
of oat feed alone, 3 ; s 
Cured fodders and hays. 
Rowen hay, mixed grasses et ee 
ly Kentucky blue grass, Ave. 
) Min. 
Rowen hay, mostly timothy, 
Avg. 
Avg. 
Min. 
tty 
Min 
Rowen hay, mixed grasses, Max, 
Rowen hay, clover, field cured, 
Avg. 
WwW WwW DAA DLA COOAAA ALA 

Max. 
Max. 
No. of 
experi- 
ments. 
Nd vb COoOoORH Sf HPA L- 

Protein, 
NX. 6.25: 

Fat. 
Nitrogen 
free 
extract. 
Fiber. 
Organic 
matter. 
Energy. 

Per ct.|Per ct. 
48.0 
62 
55.0 
7Ae pe: 
Pied 
73.4 
75.8 
80.0 
Tie, 
| 67.5 
71.5 
69.6 
70.6 
76.1 
PIX, 
76.8 
81.5 
78.8 
06.9 
71.0 
68.5 
85.8 
70.3 
75-7 
85.4 
62. 
OF 
70. 
66. 
69. 
68.0 
fo 
NO 
hw en O 
to<] 
70.8 
60.3 
65.1 
62.7 
Ao! 
- 68. 
5 
co 
60.6 
72-9 
68.5 
64.7 
73-4 
70.5 
1A Get 
77-4) 
73.6 
54-9 
66.0 
60.9 
68. 
9 
wg 
70.7 
49-4 
55.9 
53.4 
8.8 
8.8 
6.3 

84.9 
Per ct. |Per ct./Per ct.|Per ct. 
pian 
80. 
76. 
Toe 
O73 
75. 
57 - 
BESLESHE 
5 
I 
4 
6 
-CR HOME BOO MUO 
45.6 
60.7 
ep B 
59.0 
69.2 
62.5 
55.8 
69.5 
63.3 
44.7 
56.4 
49.0 
16.2 
92.8 
67.2 
65.4 
68.2 
66.5 
62.0 
73-4 
66.5 
T0255 
72.4 
66.2 
47.6 
50 
49.2 

209 
72.8 
69.0 
FOr 
75 
7 
65. 
13 
69. 
62. 
Nu Qe Oma DRO Mm 
SIE GO RIE AG Od ge 
61.3 
71.3 
7027 
FS) 
a 
NAnuwr NOD [SKS py nO 
No 0 rn oo Be Devons 
OO eR OHA BY .O NwaMm 
57-6 
Oo 
~I 
oO 
“I 
i) 
cn 
56.6 
67.3 
61.0 
52.7 
57-1 
60.9 
53:2 
58.3 
60.9 
59 is 
56.8. 
62.4 
59a 
53.0 
54-5 
53.8 
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