248 STORRS AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 
TABLEUg2: 
SUMMARY OF RESULTS OF DIGESTION EXPERIMENTS 
WITH. SHEEP, 
Percentages of total nutrients and of fuel value of nutrients 
actually digested. 














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Milling Products (with Hay), % | % | %| 4 | G | ee 
Bran, corn meal and hay,*  - Ge Te 48 .0/60.6'71.5|45.6 5.9 62.7 57.6 
Bran, corn meal and hay, = Sali clinneyL) 62.1'72.9 76.1/59.6/26.6 70.8 66.4 
Bran, corn meal and hay, so (4a e720 69.1 80.1 60.7 32.072.8 67.9 
Bran, corn meal and hay, - | 4] D |§2.2/71.2/77.7/55.2/27.4|/69.6/65.2 
Average, 5 “ bap ke oar ry | eas 55.0) 68.5. 76.4 95.3 23.0 69.0 64.3 
Bran, corn meal, linseed meal, Pipony as 73.5|64.7/73.8/59.0|26.8/70.1 63.6 
oat and pea meal and hay,t §//2 > D 71.271.2 74.9 60.8 28.2 70.9 64.8 
Bran, corn meal, iinseed meal, @OREC De ee 72.877.069.2/40.9/75.0/70.3 
oat and pea meal and hay, §//3 D 171.6 73.4/73.6 01.1 20.9/70.3 65.4 
Average,- - = - - | —/| — /73,4) 70.5 74,8 62.5 29.2 71.6 66.0 
Soy bean meal and timothy hay, P12 |7A 75.871.1 66.7 61.2.42.068.5 62.9 
Soy bean meal and timothy hay, | 12 B 77.0|76.7/69.061.2/51.6/70.5/65.9 
Soy bean meal and timothy hay, | 12, C 80.0/77.4/68.4/63. 148.9 71.5/67.0 
Soy bean meal and timothy hay, | 12 | E 76.0.71.460.9/56.7/51.1/65.4 61.3 
Average,- - = - | — | — |97.9 74.2 66.3 60.6 48.4 69.0 64.3 
Soy bean meal and timothy hay, | 13. A '77-0,74.1/62.259.7/52.0/67.0/62.8 
Soy bean meal and timothy hay, WV 13 1B 77-4'73.3,06.5 63.1 36.8/69.5/64.0 
Soy bean meal and timothy hay, | 13. C 78.5 '72.0/63.5/55.8/45.3/66.9/62.7 
Soy bean meal and timothy hay, 13. E 80.0 73.1/71.8/69.5/48.6|73.7/68.7 
Average,-  - - - | — — |78,2 73,1 66.0) 62.0) 45.7 69.3] 64.6 
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Experiment 12, calculated for | / | 
digestibility of soy bean meal} | — — '85.1|86.6/73.6| — |26.3/77.5/72.2 
above average, - = - / 
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Experiment 13, calculated for | | | 
— | — |86.6/83. 2/73. 1) — 116, 2\78 aie 
digestibility of soy bean meal 
above average, - - - 
Average of experiments 12 and 
13, eight tests, calculated for 
soy bean meal alone, - - 
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— — 85.8 84.9784 — 21.3 78,0 72.6 
mixed grasses, - ‘ 70.3 62.1 65.2'44.7 31.6/62.0/57.0 
Coarse bran and rowen hay, 
mixed grasses, - - - 
Coarse bran and rowen hay, 
mixed grasses, - - - 
Coarse bran and rowen hay, 
mixed grasses, - - 
Average, - - « 
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68.9154.9 00. 7147-8 3052 aa 57.1 
'63.1/57.8 
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32 C 71.5 06.0 69.4 56.4 33.5 67.1 62.4 
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67.5 60.767.4 47.0 24.3 
— 69.6 60.9 67.2 49.0 29.9 63.7 58.6 
Experiment 32, calculated for 
digestibility of coarse bran, 
average, - - - - 

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Coarse bran and rowen hay, | 
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~ — 70.8 72.2 67.2 16.2 17.2 61.3156.6 

* The wide ration of sheep feeding experiments, pp. 92-106, Report of 1894. 
+ The narrow ration of sheep feeding experiments, pp. 92-106, Report of 1894. 
