ABSTHACTS (IF HniKTlNS OF TIIF AdIiKTLTFKAL F.M'Flil.MFM STATIONS IN 

 THE L\rrEl) STATES FROM JLLV TO DKl'EMBFK, ISS'J. 



p ^v 11 'r II. 



MISSOURI. 



Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station. 



Dcpar{))ic)it of Missoml Aijricidtura] Collenc 

 Location, {'oluniliia. Director, Eihvard D. Porter, Ph. D.* 



BULLETIN No. 7. 



Green versus dry storage of fodder, J. W. Sanborn, B. S. (pp. 

 3-20). — This is a report of experiments regarding the relative cost of 

 silage and dry storage of corn and the nutritive values of the silage 

 and dried corn under such conditions as are found in Missouri. 



(1) Belatire coi<t of sUos and Z^«ry;,s.^ According to the figures 

 given in the bulletin the stone silo on the College farm, which is 16 

 by 22 feet and 16 feet deep, inside measure, and has a capacity of 

 about 90 tons, cost $153. In this silo the cost of storage room for the 

 silage from an acre of land, estimated to average 20 tons, would be 

 $100. The cost of erecting a wooden silo of the same size as the 

 stone one was estimated by a local contractor at $292. In the same 

 Avay it was estimated that a barn to hold 23 ton'=! of timothy hay, the 

 dry matter in which would equal that in the silage held by a silo of 

 the size above mentioned, would cost $224. In these estimates lum- 

 ber is reckoned at $17.50 per thousand feet. 



(2) E.vpcrhnent in storing green and dry fodder. — The stover of a 

 num])er of rows of sAveet and field corn was put into the stone silo, 

 and that of the aUernate rows was dried and stored in a compact bod}^ 

 in a barn. Both kinds of fodder kept quite well, but the silage was 

 computed to hiivo lost 15.41 ])er cent of its dry matter by " shrinkage," 

 and enough more Avas s])oilcd to bring the total loss up to 34.3 per 

 cent. The dry fodder lost, by the computation, only 5.56 per cent of 

 its dry matter by '' shrinkage." This large difference in the amount 

 of loss of dry matter by the two methods of storage, as compared with 

 that found by other experimenters, is thought by the author to be 

 largely due to the compactness Avith which the dry fodder was stored 

 in this experiment. The analyses were, however, unsatisfactory, and 

 the computations of loss may not be entireh' correct. 



* When Bulletins Nos. 7 and 8 of this Station were prepared, J. W. Sanborn 

 was director. 



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