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tiug, except the last, besides taking the sample, there were cut aud 

 weighed sixty hills of corn. The weight of the corn so cut was used as 

 a basis for computing the yield of green fodder and of the various con- 

 stituents per acre, except in the cutting of Sei)tember 24, when a meas- 

 ured acre was cut and weighed. The results are shown in another table. 

 * * * It will be seen that between the first and last cutting the dry 

 matter and carbohydrates increased about loO per cent, the fat about 

 125 i)er cent, and the protein nearly doubled. In our experiments last 

 year we found that the total feeding value, in the period between tas- 

 seliug and ripening, increased 166 per cent, so that the experiments of 

 this year confirm those of last." Similar experiments at the stations in 

 iSTew Hampshire (See New Hampshire Station Bulletin No. 3), Pennsyl- 

 vania (See Pennsylvania Station Bulletin No. 7), and at G-eneva, N. Y. 

 (See New York State Station, Eighth Annual Report, p. 86), are briefly 

 cited, and the following table of comparative results is compiled : 



Increase in percentages of nutritive ingredients of corn in maturing. 



* The average condition of the four, as near as may be. 

 t The actual condition of each, dates not given. 



The results of all these experiments unite to show that there is a large 

 increase of all the classes of nutrients as the corn proceeds from tassel- 

 ing to ripeness. 



The bulletin concludes with a summary based on these and other ex- 

 periments at this station and elsewhere, from which the following 

 points are taken : 



(1) III growing corn for si lago care should be taken to select the largest variety 

 that will fully mature before frost in the locality where grown. 



(2) Heretofore it has been a coiumou i)ractice to sow or plant corn for fodder and 

 ensiling entirely too thick. Starch and sugar are not fully developed without an 

 abundance of sunlight. 



