Studies on the Digestibality of Some Field By- Products

l) The feeding va Lus of’ the 4 ’).r’ops by-products were studied :-Pea-vines, Vegetable l!lc.:,”’::;:’::w~• p Larrt , cowpea ”Tines andsweet potato vines which were dc’ce.crd.Ylcc’} us Lng gouts asand experimental animal •The digestion coefficient of pe a-vvd.ne we r-e , c rudoprotsin 84.25, crude fibre 65.85, Nofree cxt rao+ 80~93and ether extra~t 50.84 ~Ths digestion coefficient of vegetable marr0W were,orude protein 85.12, crude fibre 59.87., N~free extrU’Jt78.71 and ether extract 74.04 •The digestion coefficient of oowpsa vines were grudeprotein 57.25, crude fibre 54.48, N.free extraot 71.04and ether extract 50.78 ~The digestion coefficient of sweet potato vines werecrude protein 69.23, crude fibre 61.15, N.free extract71.19 and ether extract 65.19 •2) The correlation between digestibility and its nutrientfound that :-Significant negative correJo.tion was fOWld betweenpercentage of crude fibre and the digestion coefficientof other nutrients •