1014 Agricultural Gazette of N.S. W. [Dec. 2, 1908. 



Table 2. 



Percentage composition of dry matter of [a) large, well-advanced and 

 {h) small, less mature plants, cut the same day. 



Composition of Silage. 



Some months after filling the silo, the sacks were recovered and their 

 contents weighed and examined. The silage had a brownish-green colour, 

 but otherwise the pieces looked unaltered. It had a pungent smell suggesting 

 butyric acid, and was acid to litmus. Numbers of bacteria were pre.sent, 

 including Bac subtUis and others, but there was no mould of any sort. The 

 •composition is curiously constant, showing far less tluctuation from year to 

 year than does the original maize. 



Table 3. 

 Average percentage composition of maize silage. 



^ The figures for total and non-protein nitrogen and ammonia are all somewhat too low 

 because we have not been able to avoid loss of ammonia during sampling. We reduced 

 loss as far as possible by starting the several nitrogen determinations in the wet silage 

 immediately the sample was drawn. The ether extract figures are only approximate. 

 See experimental part for details. 



