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The silo product is not mouldy anywliere. The fodder that 

 was perfectly dry and put on top is eaten up just as clean as 

 can be. By this simple method farmers can preserve their 

 fodder in a moist condition, so that the cattle will eat it all ; 

 and they can save labor, because it is much easier to put it 

 in a silo in the field than to cut it up. If you cut it up, it 

 will heat tremendously in twenty-four hours. 



I have no doubt but that I shall raise a great deal of corn- 

 fodder, and put it up in that way, simply because it is handy ; 

 and we can get more of it in that way than in any other. 



I don't know but I should hesitate in regard to putting 

 sugar-corn down in this way, after what has been said about 

 it. 



Professor Goessisiank. It would depend upon at what 

 time it was put in. 



Dr. Faxon. I planted some green corn for market, and 

 it gave me a little over twelve pounds of fodder to each ker- 

 nel. That was the Burr corn. There were eleven thousand 

 kernels to the acre, and that is nearly sixty tons of green 

 fodder. The land had been in grass seven years. I ploughed 

 it up last year to kill the witch-grass out of it. It had been 

 top-dressed nearly every year, and this last year it was ma- 

 nured simply with a very little compost of hen-manure. I 

 planted my corn the first day of May (rows four feet apart, 

 one grain in a place a foot apart) ; and along in July I cut 

 some of it up for fodder, and got at the rate of sixty tons to 

 the acre. I feed about sixty pounds a day of the corn-fodder. 

 Dr. Bailey says that is sufQcient to feed a cow, without any 

 hay : I do not tliink it is. I feed a little hay, and I think I 

 get a better result. 



Professor Goessimann. There is a point which needs ex- 

 planation. Feeding corn-fodder, which differs in its compo- 

 sition from the requirements of the animal to support its life, 

 can only be accomplished by the waste of one or the other 

 constituents of the material. If we feed an article of fodder 

 in which the nitrogenous matter stands to the non-nitroge- 

 nous as one to nine, we give, in many cases, more non-nitro- 

 genous matter than the animal requires. For instance, a 

 milch cow requires, according to long-continued experiments, 

 the proportion of one to five and a half, — almost one-liali 

 nitrogenous matter more to give you the benefit of the other 



