SOME VALUES COMPARED.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3614, 30 December 1905, Page 4

SOME VALUES COMPARED.

Resnlt of Testa to Determine the Feeding Power of Vorlons Kinds • of Animal Foods.

The earthy, or inorganic, matter in plants is as necessary for animal growth as the organic matter. The bony skeleton consists chiefly of calcium phosphate, with a little calcium caflbonate and other mineral substances derived from plants. While plants contain everything necessary for animal growth some portions are richer in salts and nitrogenous material, and are therefore considered tto be of more value, as the grain of wheat, corn and oals. Foods differ greatly in value, as evf ry farmer knows. Many experi- > nts have been made to determine the teding power of various kinds of food, nrid elaborate tables have been drawn ■tp to express their comparative value. Every farmer practically constructs such a table for himself; at least, he sets a different value on different substances, and buys and sells accordingly. In the following table common hay is taken as the common standard, and the numbers opposite each substance show how many pounds of each contain nourishment equivalent to ten pounds of hay:

/ Of course* such tables represent only 1 general results. Much depends on the quality of the food, the form in which it is given, the condition of the animal to which it is fed, and other circumstances which the intelligent farmer understands.—'Western Plowman.

40 to 50 20 to 40 20 to 80 5 to 8 r *