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The entire crop of corn fodder was cut September I. 

 The corn fodders growing upon the fertilized and unfertilized 

 plats, differed widely from each other, in their general ap- 

 pearance during the second half of the season. The growth 

 upon the former retained its healthy and vigorous appear- 

 ance to the time of cutting, whilst that raised upon the un- 

 fertilized plats turned gradually yellow, and suffered, at the 

 close of the season, seriously, from smut. 



The crop gathered from the fertilized plats was converted 

 into ensilage ; and that from the unfertilized plats was 

 stacked in the field for dry corn fodder. 



Anali/sis of Green Fodder Corn. 



Judging from these results it appears that the plants upon 

 the unfertilized plats advanced more rapidly towards matur- 

 ity than those upon the fertilized fields, yet fell considerably 

 behind in the production of vegetal^le matter at the close of 

 the season ; for one hundred parts of the former contained 

 only 21.23 per cent, dry matter, while the latter showed a 

 yield of 27.73 per cent, of dry matter, a difference of 6.5 per 

 cent. One hundred pounds of the fodder corn, grown upon 

 the unfertilized plats, contained at the time of harvesting (ker- 

 nels in milk), 6.5 pounds less of vegetable matter than the 

 one raised upon the fertilized plats, a difference equal to from 

 twenty to twenty-five per cent, of vegetable matter in 

 favor of the fertilized fodder corn. Adding to this advan- 

 tage the difference in the total weight of corn fodder at the 

 time of harvesting, an amount equal to thirty-three per cent. 

 of the entire growth, it is but proper to state that the total 

 effect of the fertilizer on the crop should be rated in our case 

 with an increase equal to from forty-eight to fifty per cent, of 

 the entire crop. 



