GREEN FODDER-CORN, ETC. 



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sugar, and all conditions, apparently, were favorable for the 

 trial. 



The amount of available green fodder-corn, by actual 

 weight, was ten tons. Of this, one half was arranged in the 

 field in fifty small stacks ; while the other half, after it had 

 been cut by horse-power into lengths of three-sixteenths of 

 an inch, was closely packed in a silo of about twelve tons' 

 capacity. The analysis of a sample, taken, with the utmost 

 care, to represent the entire quantity used in this experiment, 

 gives the chemical composition of the corn 'before it was 

 affected either by loss of moisture or by fermentation. 



About the last of November, after an exposure to the 

 weather of nearly three months, twelve hundred pounds of 

 the dried stalks were passed through a Lion cutter and 

 crusher, then thoroughly mixed and sampled. The analysis 

 of this sample, compared with that of the original green corn, 

 shows the changes which occurred during the process of field- 

 curing. 



On the 23d of December the contents of the silo were 

 found to be in an excellent state of preservation. A sani- 

 j)le taken eighteen inches from the surface was entirely free 

 from disagreeable smell, insipid to the taste, and, as shown 

 by the analysis, equal in all respects to the best ensilage which 

 has yet been received at this station. The chemical compo- 

 sition of these three samples can be seen in the following 

 table. It shoidd be remembered that sample No. 1 repre- 

 sents the green corn, while samples Nos. 2 and 3 represent 

 fodders obtained from this corn by two different methods 

 of preservation. 



Table No. I 



