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DIGESTION EXPERIMENTS WITH SHEEP. 209 
DIGESTION ExpERIMENT No. 48. 
Sweet corn fodder (fed green).— The experiment began Sept 3, 
1897, and continued twelve days. The feces were collected for the five 
days from Sept. 20 at 5.30 P.M. to Sept. 25 at6 p.m. The corn was of the 
‘Branching Sweet” variety. Two samples were taken, one Sept. 17, 
and the other Sept. 20, 1897. At the time the first sample was taken the 
corn was of good growth, the tassels and silk were nearly dry, the leaves 
and stalks were a trifle rusty, the ears were well formed and the corn 
was in the milk stage. The second sample was the same as the first, 
with the exception that the seeds were slightly hardened and the bottom 
leaves of the stalks were becoming dry. Each animal, sheep A, B, C, 
and D, was fed daily 3,000 grams of the fodder in two equal feeds. Each 
of the four sheep left refuse. That left by sheep C and D was collected 
and saved, but the amount left by sheep A and B was so large that the 
animals were discarded from the experiment, 
DIGESTION EXPERIMENT No. 4o. 
Barley and pea fodder (fed green).— The experiment began Oct. 
II, 1897, and continued thirteen days. The feces were collected for the 
five days from Oct. 18 at 5 p.m. to Oct. 23 at 5 P.M. Two samples were 
taken, one Oct. 15, the other Oct. 19. In the first the barley was of fair 
growth, the heads and rudiments of seeds were formed and the leaves 
were more or less rusty or dead. The peas were not yet in bloom, but 
were in good condition for feeding. In the second the barley was in 
about the same condition as in the first, except that the heads were 
grown to the early seed stage. Buds were well formed on the peas, but 
none were in blossom. During the first four days of the experiment each 
sheep was fed 3,000 grams of the fodder daily in two equal feeds, and the 
remaining nine days 2,800 grams of the fodder was fed to each sheep 
daily in two equal feeds. Both animals left some refuse, but the quantity 
was so very small that it was left out of account in computing the 
results. 
DIGESTION EXPERIMENT No. 50. 
Barley fodder, fed green. The experiment began Oct. 11, 1897, 
and continued thirteen days. The feces were collected for the five days 
from Oct. 18 at 5 p.m. to Oct. 23 ats p.m. At the time of taking the 
first, Oct. 15, the barley was in fair growth, with heads well developed 
and seeds forming. The bottom leaves were either rusty or dead, but 
otherwise it was in fair condition for feeding. The second sample, taken 
Oct. 19, was in practically the same condition as the first. Each animal, 
sheep C and D, was fed 2,800 grams of the fodder daily for the first four 
days, and for the last nine days 3,000 grams were fed daily in two equal 
feeds. Both sheep left a small amount of refuse, which was saved, but 
finally discarded as being too small to take into account. 
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