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A knowledge of the relative value of clear corn-meal to 

 cob-meal, and also of the difference in feeding-value of our 

 round, home-grown corn and the flat Southern and Western 

 corn, is very important, at this time, to help farmers settle 

 the question whether it is best to grow corn. German ex- 

 periments show that seventy-one per cent of clear corn-meal 

 is digestible, and that fifty-two per cent of corn-cobs is diges- 

 tible matter. If we allow seventy-four pounds of ears to 

 give fifty-six pounds of clear corn, a hundred pounds of ears 

 will give 75.6 pounds of corn, and 24.4 pounds of cobs. 53.6 

 pounds of the corn, and 12.6 pouAds of the cobs, are digesti- 

 ble ; making 66.2 pounds of digestible matter in cob-meal to 

 seventy-one pounds in clear meal, or about as thirteen to 

 fourteen. It is well to bear in mind that most of the digesti- 

 ble part of corn-cobs is carbo-hydrates, and that, to get the full 

 value of cob-meal, it needs to be fed with other food rich in 

 albuminoids. 



Many are ready to admit that a hundred pounds of cob- 

 meal made from round corn is worth as much to feed as a 

 hundred pounds of clear meal made from flat corn. Some, 

 after changing from one to the other, back and forth, for sev- 

 eral times, claim that the same quantity by measure of cob- 

 meal is worth as much as the clear meal bought at our mills. 

 There are sixty-four quarts in a hundred pounds of clear 

 meal, and eighty-six quarts in a hundred pounds of cob-meal. 

 If a quart of our Northern cob-meal has the same feeding-value 

 that a quart of clear Western meal has, then, at the present 

 time, a hundred pounds of cob-meal are worth ^1.80. My 

 experience has led me to put the value of a hundred pounds 

 of ears in the corn-crib, when dry enough to grind, at the 

 price of meal per bag at the mills. It costs us twenty cents 

 per hundred pounds to get our cob-meal ground. I think a 

 hundred pounds of it worth, for making milk, twenty cents 

 more than a bag of the average meal we get at the mills. 



The value of the cobs, and the difference in quality between 

 the round and flat corn, are important items in making up 

 statements of the cost and value of the corn-crops grown in 

 our county ; and yet these items have generally been over- 

 looked. Take, for example, the statement of James P. King 

 for this year. He reports 7,650 pounds of ears, allows eighty- 

 five pounds of ears for a bushel, and calls a bushel worth 



