(2)   Hay, 10 lb. ; corn-stalks, ad lib. ; wheat bran, 3 lb. ; corn meal, 2 lb. ; cottonseed meal, 2 lb.

(3)   Roots, 60 lb. ; stover, ad lib. ; oats, 3 lb. ; bran, 3 lb. ; gluten feed, 3 lb.

(4)  Corn fodder, ad lib. ; corn silage, 40 lb. ; shorts, 2 lb. ; dry brewers' grains, 2 lb. ; oil-meal, 2 lb.

(5)  Silage, 40 lb. ; hay, ad lib. ; bran, 4 lb. ; oats, 2 lb. ; gluten meal, 2 lb.

(6)  Corn silage, 45 lbs. ; hay, ad lib. ; oats, 4 lb. ; oil-meal, 2 lb. ; cottonseed meal, 1 lb.

(7)  Corn silage, 35 lb. ; clover hay, ad lib. ; bran, oats, and corn meal, 2 lb. each.

(8)  Clover silage, 25 lb. ; hay, 5 lb. ; corn-stalks, ad lib. ; oats, 3 3 lb. ; corn meal and oil-meal, 2 lb. each.

(9)  Clover or alfalfa silage, 30 lb. ; hay, ad lib. ; bran, 41b. ; middlings, 3 lb. ; oil-meal, 1 lb.

(10)  Alfalfa hay, 20 lb. ; oats, 4 lb. ; corn meal, 2 lb.

(11)  Hay, 20 lb. ; cottonseed hulls, 10 lb. ; cottonseed meal, 4 lb. ; wheat bran, 2 lb.

(12) Corn silage, 30 lb.; cottonseed hulls, 12 lb.; bran, 6 lb.; cottonseed meal, 3 lb.

Henry, in his " Feeds and Feeding," gives the following rations, from various sources, as a guide in determining the amount of feed that should be allowed the horse under various conditions : —

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Composition Of Feeding-Stuffs

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Composition Tables

Table II. Average Composition of American Feeding-stuffs (Henry)

Feeding-stuffs

Percentage Composition

No. of analyses

Water

Ash

Protein

Crude fiber

Nitrogen-free extract

Ether extract

Concentrates

              

Corn, dent........

10.6

1.5

10.3

2.2

70.4

5.0

86

Corn, flint......

11.3

1.4

10.5

1.7

70.1

5.0

68

Corn, Sweet..

8.8

1.9

11.6

2.8

66.8

8.1

26

Corn meal....

15.0

1.4

9.2

1.9

68.7

3.8

77

Corn Cob........

10.7

1.4

2.4

30.1

54.9

0.5

18

Corn-and-cob meal .

15.1

1.5

8.5

6.6

64.8

3.5

7

Corn bran.............

9.4

1.2

11.2

11.9

60.1

6.2

6

Corn germ..........

10.7

4.0

9.8

4.1

64.0

7.4

3

Hominy chops ....

9.6

2.7

10.5

4.9

64.3

8.0

106

Germ meal.....

8.6

2.4

21.7

3.8

47.3

4.2

23

Dried starch and sugar feed

10.9

0.9

19.7

4.7

54.8

9.0

4

Starch feed, wet ....

65.4

0.3

6.1

3.1

22.0

3.1

12

Gluten meal.....

9.5

1.5

33.8

2.0

46.6

6.6

12

Gluten feed..........

9.2

2.0

25.0

6.8

53.5

3.5

102

Wheat, all analyses .

10.5

1.8

11.9

1.8

71.9

2.1

310

Flour, high grade . . .

12.2

0.6

14.9

0.3

70.0

2.0

1

Flour, low grade ....

12.0

2.0

18.0

0.9

63.3

3.9

1

Table II - Continued

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Table II - Continued

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Table II - Continued

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Table II - Continued

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Table II — Continued

Feeding-stuffs

Percentage Composition

No. of analyses

Water

Ash

Protein

Crude fiber

Nitrogen-free extract

Ether extract

Buttermilk......

90.1

0.7

4.0

__

4.0

1.1

85

Whey.......

93.8

0.4

0.6

—

5.1

0.1

46

Dried blood.....

8.5

4.7

84.4

—

—

2.5

3

Meat scrap.....

10.7

4.1

71.2

—

0.3

13.7

144

Dried fish......

10.8

29.2

48.4

—

—

11.6

6

Beet pulp (wet) ....

89.8

0.6

0.9

2.4

6.3

—

116

Beet molasses ....

20.8

10.6

9.1

—

59.5

—

35

Apple pomace ....

83.0

0.6

1.0

2.9

11.6

0.9

6

Sorghum bagasse

83.9

0.6

0.6

3.2

11.71

—

2

Distillery slops ....

93.7

0.2

1.9

0.6

2.8

0.9

1

Dried sediment from distillery slops ....

5.0

11.3

27.4

8.0

36.1

12.3

1

Includes fat (sorghum bagasse).

Table III.

Digestible Nutrients in 1 lb. of the More Common Feeding-stuffs (Calculations by J. L. Stone)

Kind and Amount of Feed

Total Dry

Matter

Pounds of Digestible Nutrients

Nutritive Ratio

Protein

Carbohydrates + (fat x 2.25)

Total

Soiling fodder —

          

Fodder corn........

.20

.010

.125

.135

1 : 12.5

Peas and oats..........

.16

.018

.076

.094

1:4.2

Peas and barley.........

.16

.017

.077

.094

1:4.5

(Practically the same as peas-and-oats)

.29

.029

.164

.193

1:5.6

Alfalfa...........

.28

.039

.138

.177

1:3.5

Hungarian-grass.......

.29

.020

.169

.189

1:8.4

Corn Silage..........

.21

.009

.129

.138

1 : 14.3

Roots and tubers —

          

Potatoes........

.21

• .009

.165

.174

1: 18.3

Beet, mangel....

.09

.011

.056

.067

1:5.1

Beet, Sugar.........

.13

.011

.104

.115

1: 9.4

Carrot..............

.11

.008

.082

.090

1 : 10.3

Flat turnip........

.10

.010

.077

.087

1:7.7

Hay and straw —

          

Timothy........ . .

.87

.028

.465

.493

1: 16.6

Mixed grasses and clover.......

.87

.062

.460

.522

1:7.4

Hungarian hay......

.92

.045

.546

.591

1: 12.1

Red clover hay.............

85

.068

.396

.464

1 : 5.8