715 



«livi(l('(l into lour pits, cacli nicasuriuj; about by 10 feet. These sepa- 

 rate pits were lilled as follows: 



No. 1, lillc.l Soplciiilicr L'ii. Tlic loilder wiis cut aliimt tlirco I'oiirtlis oi an iiicli 

 loii;f and .slircddcd. It was carefiillv iiacked in tin- silo, kneled o(f, tovfiod at t)n(o 

 with building paper and boards, thcu with another hiyer of biiihlinj;' ]»aper and a 

 second hiyer of boards, and linally weighted with about 3,800 ponnds of stoiip; about 

 9.75 tons of material was ])nt into this ])it. » » * 



\«). 2, filled September 2(). In this pit the material was out about 1 inch lonj^, 

 the si<les and corners were tramped, and the fodder heaped up in the nnddle and left 

 to itself. As soon us it had settled to a level with the top of the jiit it was covered 

 with building paper and straw; 7.83 tons of material was jtut into this pit. 



No. 3, filled .Sejjtember 23. This pit was tilled in the same manner as No. 2, except 

 that the material was cut about 2 inches long instead of 1; 7.63 tons of fodder was 

 ]M!t into the pit. * * * 



No. 4 was tilled Avitli stover from onr ordinary crop of field corn, the cars being 

 first broken off and laid in the shallow windrows to cure. So ranch of this material 

 as was jireserved in the center of the pit yielded a silage of apparently excellent 

 (|iiality, but the stover was comparatively dry when put in and did not ])ack well, so 

 that there was a very large loss by molding at the top and sides and no attempt was 

 made to determine the amount of material lost. 



Samples were takeu of the fodder at the time it was placed in the 

 l)its, ai»d of the silage produced. The aualyses of these are given 

 as follows: 



Compositioii of corn fodder and silage from the same. 



Water in 



fresli 

 material. 



PitXo. 1, corn fodder finely 

 cut, shredded, and closely 

 parked in silos: 



Corn fodder 



Corn silajro 



Pit Xo. 2, corn fodiler tiiiely 

 cut and loosely packed ill 

 silo: 



Corn fodder 



Corn .silago 



Pit Xo. 'J, .same as X'o. 2 

 except cut coarser: 



Corn fodder 



Com silage 



Per cent. 

 70. :i5 

 80.91 



79.18 

 82.07 



78.10 

 79.90 



In 100 parts of dry matter. 



Crndo 

 ash. 



Per cent. 

 li. 05 

 G.CO 



5.14 

 6.14 



5.20 

 6.17 



Albn- 

 raiuoids. 



rer 



cent. 

 4. 05 

 4.82 



3.80 

 5.18 



4.02 

 5.12 



Xon-albu-' Crude P^'itroRCn- 

 ■>.iuoids. cellulose. ^^l^^^^_ 



Per cent. 



0.82 

 1.20 



1.25 

 1.17 



1.14 



0.85 



Percent. 

 2'.». 05 

 35.46 



29.35 

 35.86 



20. 50 

 32. 89 



Crude 

 fat. 



Per cent. 

 54.40 

 46.99 



55.42 

 47.80 



Per cent. 

 f). 03 

 4.93 



5.04 

 3.85 



55.39 

 49.90 



4.75 

 5.07 



From the composition a calculation is made of the total amonnt of 

 nutrients put into and recovered from each ijit. In the case of pit No. 

 3 a portion of the spoiled silage was taken out and sampled, but was 

 not weighed, C(msequently the apparent loss as given in the subsequent 

 table is probably too large for this pit. "The figures have been 

 included because they show that the losses can not have been greater 

 than tlie amount stated." The calculated loss in the silo by fermenta- 

 tion, that is the difference between the amount of nutrients put in and 

 the amount recovered in the good and spoiled silage, is given as fol- 

 lows: 



