460 



of well-made silage on the one hand and of well cured fodder on the 

 other, when jnepared from the same orijijinal material." 



From the data j;iven above a eahnlation is made of the amount ot 

 dijifstihle to(»(l in-iredients per acre in ^jfreen fodder eorn, and in sila<;e 

 an«l ti«l(l cured fodder from the same; and these figures are compaied 

 Avitli those for 2 tons of timothy hay. 



The results are as fcdlows: 



JJitjmtiblt food inijredienta from I acre. 



Given 

 fodder 

 curu. 



Silage. 



J Field- Two t<ill!i 



cun-<l futi- tiiiiutliy 

 dercom. liav. ' 



Albuiiiiiioidn 



Is'uii-alltiiiiiiiiuidH 



Carbob^ dralea 



Fat 



Total digcAtiblu 



Pound*. 



Irt4 



07 



3.M7 



153 



Pound*. 



151 I 

 3, IM 

 263 



Pound*. 



133 



09 



3,030 



156 



Pound*. 



1,730 

 44 



4,351 



3,GC0 



3,388 



1,888 



A cah-ulation of the relative c<»st of held <iirin<,' and msilinj; is made 

 on the basis of 1 ton of licld cured fodder from A t«uis of green material, 

 as follows: 



DJKCfltible matter secured 



Cost of dipe.stilile mailer: 



Tliree Ions Kreeii iiinteriul nl $1 . 

 Loacliiii;. ciittins;. and liuiiliiiK ' 

 Stookiii^ 



Coat iH-r Ittu )>oiiiidit digcslibb- ma l< r. 



SiUge. 



741 Um. 



$3,110 

 1.5U 



Fodder. 



4.50 

 0.61 



611 lbs. 



$3.(10 

 0. So 

 0. :<o 



3. HU 

 0. 6"J 



"At the ]»ri<'es assumed it ai»i)ears that, with such los.ses as we 

 observetl in our exi>erimcnts, the cost ol digestible I'cmmI per 1(M> pounds 

 is pra<'tically the same in the silage ami in the field<ured fodder." 



Assuming a loss of .~»0 ])er cent of <lrv matter and <»t) j>er cent of 

 digestible matter if tlie corn had be«'n «ure<l entirely in the tield. a 

 second calculation is made, which gives the eost of 1(K> jniuuds of 

 digestible matter in silage at 01 centsand in fiehl-curcd fodder at "jLlL'. 



Oil tin- whole tbo .almve coinimrisoii seonis to iiHliciitc that when fo«l«li>r in cured 

 under the luo.st favoralde londition.s it will e«>Kt relatively .-iliout the same or per- 

 hap.H ii little less than .silajje; while very uufavorahle conditions for curinjf may 

 make the digestihle food in the fod«l«T cost very much more tlian in the sila>;e. 

 Since, now, the conditions under which the Ios.hch observed in the exjieriments quoted 

 above were experienced were exceptionally favorable to field cnniiji, the conclusion 

 seems justified, that under ordinary ctmditions eusilinx is likely to be » cheaiier 

 method of preserving the corn crop than field curinjj. even after allowin<; for the cost 

 of the silo, an element not taken a<'count of in the above calculations. It must l»e 

 left for further invest ij^ation to determine the validity of this deduction from coiu- 

 icirativcly few experiments. 



