

210 STORRS AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 
DIGESTION EXPERIMENT No. 51. 
Rowen, mixed grasses, nearly free from clover. The experiment 
began Dee. 8, 1897, and continued twelve days. The feces were collected 
for the five days from the evening of Dec. 15 to the evening of Dec. 20. 
The rowen was sampled Dec. 9, from a lot weighed out for eleven days’ 
rations. Each animal, sheep A, B, C, and D, was fed daily 700 grams 
of the rowen cut into pieces about one inch long. Sheep A, B, and C 
ate well during the whole test. Sheep D left about one-fourth of his ration 
the evening of Dec. 18. During the remainder of the experiment he ate 
all but a small quantity. The refuse was assumed to be of the ‘same e | 
composition as the rowen fed. | 
DIGESTION EXPERIMENT No. 52. 
Cleveland flax-meal with fine rowen. The rowen was the same 
as was used in experiment No. 51, and was sampled from a 50-pound lot 
cut into pieces about one inch long. The flax-meal was sampled from an | 
80-pound lot out of which rations for twelve days were weighed. The | 
experiment began Jan. 31, 1898, and continued twelve days. Each | 
animal, sheep A, B, C, and D, was fed daily 200 grams of the rowen. | 
Sheep A and C were each fed 200 grams and sheep B and D Ioo grams 
of flax-meal daily. Sheep B did not eat the ration well and was dis- 
carded from the experiment. The feces were collected for the five days 
from the evening of Feb. 7 to the evening of Feb. 12. 
DIGESTION EXPERIMENT No. 53. 
Quaker oat feed with fine rowen. The rowen was the same as 
was used in experiment No. 51 and was sampled Mar. 2 from a 50-pound 
lot cut into pieces about one inch long. The Quaker oat feed was from 
a lot of 90 pounds, and was the same as that used in cow-feeding experi- 
days. Each animal, sheep A, C, and D, was fed daily 500 grams of rowen 
and 500 grams of Quaker oat feed. The feces were collected for the five 
days from the evening of Mar. 9 to the evening of Mar. 14, The experi- 
ment was normal throughout. 
ment No. 47. The experiment.began Mar. 2, 1898, and continued twelve | 
DIGESTION EXPERIMENT No, 45. SWEET CORN FODDER (FED GREEN). 
Composition of feeding stuffs and of feces. 

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Feeding stuff. | 
Sweet corn fodder. Per ct.| Per ct. |Per ct.| Per ct. |Per ct.|Per ct.| Per ct. |Calories | 
1,729 Sample 1, : 82.6 1.8 5 9.9 10.4.0: NT va 772 | 
1,730 Sample 2, ‘ 81.0 1.8 -6{ 10.9 |: 4.5 1.2 17.8 854 | 
; Average, | 8J.8| . 1.8 76:1 50.45 4.3 1" S02 833 | 

Feces. 
feysdioneep C, . 
1,735|Sheep D, 
83.8 | 4,330 | 
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2 85.2 4,392 | 
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