MORE NUTRITION IN GRASS THAN POTATOES.
VALUES OF STOCK-RAISING FOODS.
One Hundred Pounds of Hay Produce a
Better Effect Than Six Times That
Weight of Beets.
The relative values of different foods in stock-raising are shown by the following table, in which the given number of pounds of the various articles named produces the same effect as one hundred pounds of hay:
| Beets, white | 669 | pounds |
| Turnips | 469 | " |
| Rye Straw | 429 | " |
| Clover, red, uncured | 373 | " |
| Clover, red, dry | 88 | " |
| Potatoes | 350 | " |
| Oat Straw | 317 | " |
| Alfalfa | 89 | " |
| Buckwheat | 78.5 | " |
| Corn | 62.5 | " |
| Oats | 59 | " |
| Barley | 58 | " |
| Rye | 53.5 | " |
| Wheat | 44.5 | " |
| Oilcake, linseed | 43 | " |
Hay, it will be seen, is rated as being more nutritious than potatoes or beets.
GREAT FORCE USED TO WRITE LETTERS.
ENERGY SPENT IN LITTLE WAYS.
Every Time the Typewriter Key Is
Pressed, Several Ounces of Manual
Power Are Used.
If a man realized at the end of the day how much energy he had expended in normal and almost unconscious physical activities, he would be thankful for the chance to sleep. The writer who pushes his pen over the paper for several hours at a stretch would doubtless think he had worked hard if he had excavated a well in the same time; yet it is believed that the sum of the energy he uses daily in writing would be enough easily to dig a well. The following figures are quoted from Answers: