. Manual of cattle-feeding. A treatise on the laws of animal nutrition and the chemistry of feeding stuffs in their application to the feeding of animals. With illustrations and an appendix of useful tables. Feeds; Cattle; Nutrition. 248 HAKUAL OF OATTLE-FEEDIKG. the excrement. The original crude fibre of the fodder and that of the excrement had the following composition re- spectively : Caibon., Hydrogen Oxy^ Excrement. 45 1 Tlie following calculation gives ns the composition of the digested portion: Carbon. Hydrogt n. Oxygen. In lOO parts of crude fibre of


. Manual of cattle-feeding. A treatise on the laws of animal nutrition and the chemistry of feeding stuffs in their application to the feeding of animals. With illustrations and an appendix of useful tables. Feeds; Cattle; Nutrition. 248 HAKUAL OF OATTLE-FEEDIKG. the excrement. The original crude fibre of the fodder and that of the excrement had the following composition re- spectively : Caibon., Hydrogen Oxy^ Excrement. 45 1 Tlie following calculation gives ns the composition of the digested portion: Carbon. Hydrogt n. Oxygen. In lOO parts of crude fibre of 48 3 " 48 '' ^^ '' 3J,09 3 26 31 65 Biffereuce =: 52 parts of digested crude fibre r. 26 65 In 100 parts of digested crude fibre 51 4 ^' *'â cellulose Tlxe above numbers am simply intended to illustrate the method of calculation; in other and later experiments a much closer correspondence with theory has been obtained. For example, the average of eleven experiments made in Weende in 1863-64, on various kinds of coarse fodder, and with every precaution, w^as the folloMdiig, which corresponds as closely as can be expected in such experiments with the composition of pure cellulose:. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Armsby, Henry Prentiss, 1853-1921. New York, John Wiley & sons


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