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BOAKD OF AGRICULTUEE. 



ENSILAGE OF CORN IN TASSEL. 



[Sample taken from Silo when opened, April 29th.] 



The silo which furnished this ensilage has been described 

 in the first Annual Report of the station. The fodder corn 

 which filled the silo was well tasselled out, and had, a few 

 days previously, suffered from a severe frost on the night of 

 September 3d ; it had been cut into pieces from tvvo to three 

 inches in length, before it had been tramped down, covered 

 and subjected to a pressure of sixty pounds to a square foot 

 of surface. The silo was opened for the use of its contents 

 on April 29th. The color of the ensilage was dark yellow- 

 ish green ; it had an acid taste and odor. On the top of the 

 mass and around its sides could be noticed, for some inches 

 in thickness, some mould. The main bulk of the mass — 

 judging from the opinion expressed by many visitors 

 to the station, who claimed to be familiar with the usual 

 appearance of corn ensilage — corresponded evidently with 

 a large proportion of the ensilage fed during the past. 



.A comparison of the above stated analysis of the dried 

 ensilage, with an analysis of the frost-bitten corn fodder 

 collected at the time the silo was being filled, shows a 

 decrease of non-nitrogenous constituents, except in the case 

 of fat ; and a decided increase in nitrogenous matter (crude 



