| 14.20 | ...| 81.51 | 2.47 | 1.82| 14.66 |
|Bran | 13.80 | 5.56| 61.67 | 6.11| 12.85 |
|Oats | 11.85 | 5.89| 57.45 | 9.00 | 2.72| 13.09 |
|Fine barley dust | 11.49 | 2.92| 71.41 | 2.67| 11.51 |
|Wheat | 11.48 | ...| 73.52 | 0.68 | 0.82| 13.50 |
|Bere | 10.25 | ...| 62.85 | 10.08 | 2.60| 14.22 |
|Hay (mean of different | | | | | | |
| grasses) | 9.40 | 2.56| 38.54 | 29.14 | 5.84| 14.30 |
|Barley | 8.69 | ...| 64.52 | 9.67 | 2.82| 14.30 |
|Coarse barley dust | 8.46 | 3.47| 69.73 | 7.31| 11.03 |
|Rice dust | 8.08 | 2.95| 69.22 | 8.12| 11.63 |
|Oat dust | 6.92 | 3.21| 72.86 | 7.70| 9.31 |
|Winter bean straw | 5.71 | ...| 67.50 | 6.39| 20.40 |
|Carob bean | 3.11 | 0.41| 62.51 | 18.60 | 2.80| 12.57 |
|Potato | 2.81 | ...| 17.30 | 1.07 | 1.13| 77.69 |
|Carrot | 1.87 | ...| 7.91 | 3.07 | 1.11| 86.04 |
|Wheat straw | 1.79 | ...| 31.06 | 45.45 | 7.47| 14.23 |
|Barley straw | 1.68 | ...| 39.98 | 39.80 | 4.24| 14.30 |
|Oat straw | 1.63 | ...| 37.86 | 43.60 | 4.95| 12.06 |
|Mangold-wurzel | 1.54 | ...| 8.60 | 1.12 | 0.96| 87.78 |
|Cabbage | 1.31 | ...| 4.53 | 1.05| 93.11 |
|Turnips | 1.27 | 0.20| 4.07 | 1.08 | 1.71| 91.47 |
+----------------------------+--------+------+--------+-------+------+-------+

It is at once obvious that in many of these descriptions of food the
ratio of the flesh to the fat-forming constituents differ very widely
from that existing in the milk, and this becomes still more apparent
when the latter are represented in their fat equivalent, as is done for
a few of them in the following table:--

Flesh Respiratory, expressed
forming, in their fat equivalent,

Decorticated earth-nut cake 44.0 16.6
Linseed cake 28.5 26.7
Tares 26.73 18.8
Clover hay