118 EXPERIMENTS WITH ENSILAGE, 



taken of the temperature as indicated by the thermometer, the direction of 

 the prevailing wind, the aspect, and the humidity. 



The prevailing wind on a majority of days was from the southwest. 



Temperature. 



The maximum temperature. 

 The minhnum temperature. 

 The average temperature 



1st Period. 



40° 



6° 



25.66° 



2d Period. 



31° 



-18° 

 11.85° 



3d Period. 



48° 



-10° 



19.18° 



I am under obligations to the Chemical Department over which Dr. Kedzie 

 presides, for the following analyses of samples of the ensilage and fodder corn 

 used in the experiments. 



The corn fodder contained 22.85 per cent of water, while the ensilage con- 

 tained 79. GO per cent of water. 



The results of analysis are calculated water free. , 



Corn Fodder. Ensilage. 



Cellulose or fiber 33.15 27.75 



Carbo-hydrates (not fat) 52. 02 46.43 



Albuminoids (protein; -. 7.00 7.15 



Ether extract, fat, wax, etc 1.95 1.19 



Ash 6.88 5.49 



Acid 12.00 



100.00 100.00 



The per cent of carbo-hydrates and albuminoids in the ensilage show it to 

 have been of good quality. The "per cent of acid seems large; but not larger 

 than some other samples here shown. 



CORN FODDER GROWN FOR ENSILAGE AND FOR DRIED FODDER. 



The land upon which it was grown was a sandy loam. Bailey's ensilage corn 

 and Chester county corn were grown on the same plat in rows four feet apart, 

 dropped in drills and covered with hoes. It was cultivated four times with a 

 one-horse double-shovel cultivator. It attained a large growth, had a fcAV ears 

 and had become a little brown at the butts of the stalks when cutting was com- 

 menced September 12. The filling of the silo being finished September 15, it 

 Avas covered September 16 and weighted with 100 pounds of stone to the square 

 foot. 



The area of corn put in the silo was 211 rods, yielding 46,763 pounds. The 

 dried corn fodder was grown on an area of 64 rods, yielding, when dried, 4,350 

 pounds. This would make the weight of ensilage grown on one square rod 231 

 pounds, or 35,360 pounds per acre. The yield of dried corn fodder joer rod was 

 68 pounds and 10,880 pounds to the acre. In other words, 3^ pounds of ensil- 

 age makes 1 pound of dried fodder. 



The Aveight of corn in silo — weighed as it was put in September 12, 13, 14, 

 15 — 51,433 pounds. The silo was opened December 15 and each load taken 

 out was carefully weiglied and a record kept. Finished the feeding April 1, but 

 a few cubic feet of the ensilage left in the silo at this writing, June 8, seems 

 after the surface is removed in a good state of preservation. The number of 

 pounds weighed out was 44,315. This indicates a loss of 7,118 pounds or about 



