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The Nutritive Value of Various Grasses and Grass-Legume Mixtures¹

New Mexico Agricultural Experiment Station

Abstract

Eight metabolism trials were conducted with wethers to determine the relative feeding value of various grasses and grass-legume mixtures.

The mixed grasses, with only one exception, were high in feeding value as shown by chemical analyses, digestion coefficients, and total digestible nutrients.

The lignin content of these grasses was closely correlated with the crude fiber content, and in a similar way was an index of the quality of the roughage.

The various grasses included in this study, when grown under conditions of adaptibility, produced a good yield of palatable forage high in total digestible nutrients.

¹ Journal Series No. 99, New Mexico Agricultural Experiment Station, State College, New Mexico.

² Nutrition chemist, New Mexico Agricultural Experiment Station, and professor of animal husbandry, New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts.

³ Instructor of dairy husbandry, New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts.