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Green Fodders and Grasses. | % | % | % | 7 aa Sea § | % 
Clover rowen, - - Sa TS Boars 4/00. cag 9/58. B142.7/59.7/55.0 
Clover rowen, - - - | 18 | F -(62.3/61.5/66.7\53.6/44.1161.9|5743 
Average, - - - (= = G19 60.8 66.5 52.5 40.4 60.8 B65 
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a ag 44 B 64.956.3 71.9 61.8 44. 2 67.0 61.3 
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Sea ue ay 44| F 69.9 54.071.3 63.3 48.1 67.8 62.3 
Average,- - - -  — | — 67.4 55.2 71.6 62.6 46.6 67.4 61.8 
Rowen, mostly timothy, - - | 25 | B /71.9|54.8/67-3/60.0143.9165.3/58.8 
Rowen, mostly timothy, - - | 25 | F |7t.5/50.9/68.2/67.6/46.5/67.5/61.7 
Dpyeragee- | =. - | — | — |71,7)| 52.0) 67.8) 63.8) 45,2) 66.4/ 60.3 
Sweet corn fodder, - 2 - | 21 | C |58.6/79.2/73.3|53.6146.4167. 516405 
Sweet corn fodder, - - - | 21 | D |52.51/77.3/74.9]54.9154.9/68.4/65.4 
Sweet corn fodder, - - =| -22°) BB 166.8/8201177 24 59.8/53.2/73.2 69.3 
Sweet corn fodder, - - - | 22 | F |66.1/81.3/79.1|61.6/47.4/74.5|70.5 
Sweet corn fodder, - - 24° |) C168. 7196 (8182 64172-2|/5 123) 785 8i poms 
Sweet corn fodder, - - - | 24 | D |57.9/76.2/75.9157.9/49.4|70.4|66.2 
Sweet corn fodder, - 2 - | 42 | B 60.3/70.6)73.6/58.3|/51.7/68.6/64.5 
Sweet corn fodder, - - - | 42| F |61.1/72.1|73.4/60.5/54.3/69.1/65.1 
Sweet corn fodder, - - 2 egg © 2 sa 6/73-5)67.1|55.5|70.0)67. I 
Sweet corn fodder, - ! Baie ane EL) 0 73.8 '58.661.0/68.2.64.6 
Average, - - >a 61. 3 15. 9 75.7 60. 5 52.5 70. 9 67.2 
Cow pea fodder, - - = | BOM CN oe 7 62. 5 84. 2/57. 8 28.2 Fie 971. 2 
Cow pea fodder,” - . - | 23 | D |75.3)56.3/84.2/57.1\19.5) '76.0/70.9 
Cow pea fodder, - - = | 43 |. C177. 3160-0/76.4)62.4)10.9/ 72. 5)6007 
Cow pea fodder,. - 2 - 43 | D |77.0/58.6|77.5|/61.0|/23.2/72.1/66.3 

Weeragese (6 = = 79.6 $9. + 80.6 59. 6 22.7 74.0 68.6 



Canada pea fodder, : a Oly | G 81.7 50. O71. 3/62 .4/37- 8/71, 064.3 
Canada pea fodder, - 5 27 | D |83.0/54. 8 70. 862.4,46.9/71.7/65.0 
Average, - - - - | — | — | 82,0) 52. “4 71.0 62.4 42. 3) (ae 3 64.7 

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF DIGESTION EXPERIMENTS WITH 
SHEEP, 1895-96. 
The animals used in the following experiments were all 
wethers, dropped in the spring of 1893. Sheep Ay CC, Diandsis 
were grade Shropshires, and sheep B was a grade Merino. 
They were the same sheep that were used in the experiments of 
1894-95. Experiments No. 28 and No. 29 were made on sam- 
ples of clover rowen that came from a lot that was all cut at one 
time, the conditions being the same in all respects, except that 
the crop on half the area was hauled to the barn at once after 
ruling: and dried carefully by spreading thinly on a scaitold, 
