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"ARei a>joiit 6 months the silos were opened and the contents fed out. The cows 

 ate the silages readily, but the quantities were too small to admit of experimental 

 feeding. Both silages kept nicely and had a pleasant aromatic odor." 



The losses in ensiling are calculated. These amonnted to 14 per cent 

 of the dry matter in case of the soja bean and 25 per cent in case of 

 the soja bean and vetch. The composition of the green material and 

 the silage is given as follows: 



Composition of (ireen and ensiled soja bean and villous vetch. 



Soja bean, orreen fotlder 75.36 12.16 20.29 22.53 41.56 3.46 



Soja bean 9ila?e 77.16 19.no 17.61 26.09 34.44 2.86 



VilIon.s veMi and soja bean, ffreen fodder.. J 80.301 14.83 21.46 22.85 35.16 5.68 3.43 



Villona vetch and soja bean silage I 81.501 19.73 18.90 27.12 27.2i: 7.04i 3.01 



3.24 0.709 1.775 

 2.81; .6251 2.246 



.748 



2.407 

 2.935 



Feeding test -with various silages, J. L. Hills {Vermont Sta. Bpt. 

 1893, pp. 70-81). 



Robertson mixture vs. corn silage (pp. 70-75). — The object of this trial 

 was to compare the composition and the feeding value of silage made 

 from a mixture of corn, horse beans (whole plant), and sunflower heads, 

 as proposed by Prof. J. W. Eobertson, of Canada, with silage made 

 from corn alone. Two fifths of an acre of corn, one fifth of an acre of 

 horse beans, and one tenth of an acre of sunflowers were planted for 

 this purpose and cultivated as usual. All except the horse beans did 

 well. Early in October this Robertson mixture was harvested and 

 ensiled in one half of a silo, the other half being filled with ordinary 

 corn. The silo was in poor repair, and the loss in ensiling was unusu 

 ally large. It amounted to 33 per cent of the dry matter for the corn 

 silage and 43 per cent for the mixed silage. Analyses are given of 

 the materials as put in the silo and of both kinds of the good and 

 spoiled silage. The following table shows the composition of the mate- 

 rials as put in and the silage taken out : 



Composition of green and ensiled material. 



Composition of dry matter. 



B o 

 ® ss 



SI 



Com fodder as put in 



Silage mi.ftnre an put in.... 

 Com silage a.s taken out... 

 Silage mixture as taken oat 



Pr. etJ Pr. ct. Pr. et. Pr. et. Pr. et. Pr. et. Pr. et. Pr. et. Pr. et 

 77.21 5.42 7.59 23.26 59.49 4.24 1.21 0.430 1.509 



74.91 

 79.16 

 79.30 



5.87 10 53 21.36 .56.07' 6.17 

 8.11 10. 24| 26.00 53.85 3.80 

 8.52. 12.10 23.89 50.161 5.33i 



1.68 .497 1.613 

 1.65' .470 1.921 

 L93| .717, 2.378 



