Fodder

Food or food material for domestic animals. In speaking of feeding animals, it is any material that either singly or in combination will make a suitable food, while forage is usually limited to coarse fodders, as hay, straw, and stover. Feeding stuffs for domestic animals contain: 1. Protein (al buminoids), which includes nitrogenous materials, which resemble egg albumen, lean meat and milk curd, and this goes to the formation of muscles, tendons, ti ues and membranes. 2. Fat, which includes fat, wax and chlorophyl. 3. Nitrogen free extract (carb hydrates), which includes starch, sugar, gum, and pectin bodies. 4. Fiber (cellulose). The last three sustain animal vitality and heat by oxidation; when these three are insufficient protein takes their place. 5. Ash, which is the mineral residue, after combustion. 6. Water. All these are nece ary for animal life, but the relative proportions vary with the object in view; i.e. , whether the animal is for work, food, milk or wool. The nutritive ratio is the percentage of protein to the combined percentages of fat, nitrogen-free extract and fibre, that of the fat being multiplied by 24. The digestibility of these constituents differs in feeding. Percentage Composition of Feeding Stuffs . IMG:content-0122.png:[blocks in formation] Ruta Bagas Oats. Corn. Brewers' Grains kiln-dried 20.30 6.40 54.89 11.79 3.97 97.43 Fog-Horn at Dungene Lighthouse. weather. The most powerful ones are worked by steam and are audible 20 to 30 m. distant.