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.•-il}!<r(' from (icM corn, and lot 11 on dry fodder from field corn, for 

 twenty-ei^iit day.s. {-2} Lot 1 on sila<j;e fioni sweet eoi-n. and lot II on 

 di'v fodder from sweet-eorn, for twent^'-one days. (3) Lot I on silage 

 from field coi'n. and lot II on di-y fodder from field corn, foi- forty- 

 six days. In anotliei- experiment two lots of three cows each received 

 dry corn fodder and silage as follows: Lot I silage, and lot II dry 

 fodder, for thirty-live days: and lot I di'v foddei-. 'ind lot II silage, 

 for sixty-five days. The milk yield for both periods and the hutter 

 yield from two settings of milk for each period are given, as well as 

 analyses of the feeding stuff's and of the milk. The analyses of the 

 feeding stuffs and products were not as detailed and complete as was 

 desirable, so the author dw.s not regard the conclusions as final. 



Among the general statements based on these experiments are the 

 following: (1) A given amount of food, dry stored, lasted longer 

 than the same amount of food put int(> the silo. (2) The ratio of 

 growth of steers fed on dry food ecjualed or exceeded that of the 

 silage-fed steers when compared with the growth of each lot when 

 both were fed alike, yet the total growth of silage-fed steers was the 

 greater. (3) The steers fed on silage seemed to have made relatively 

 Jess growth of solid matter and more of water. (4) Swe?t-corn 

 fodder was apparently more effective for the cows and less so for the 

 steers than field-corn fodder. (5) AVith the cows the dry fodder, 

 especially from sweet corn, was apparently better than silage. The 

 specimens of milk from tlie dry fodder contained a larger per cent of 

 solids and yielded more and better butter, and the cows maintained 

 their live weight best on dry fodder. (6) The trial, as a whole, 

 implied that the air-drying method with dry storage in a good barn, 

 in a compact form, was decidedly the more economical method of the 

 two. (7) "In a very l>ad year the disadvantages of the air-drying 

 system might be equal to the disadvantages of the silo, but they would 

 iiave to be severe to warrant stock raisers in Missoni-i in investing in 

 the silo extensively. The facts secured will not warrant me in 

 advising our farmers to build silos until a radical change in the 

 effectiveness and economy of the silo is made, or a radical change 

 occui-s in sui'rounding conditions." 



lUTJ.KTIX No. ;». DECEMBER, 188!). 

 StI !)Y OI' TIIK I.II'F, HISTORY OF CORN AT ITS DIFFEREXT PF.RIODS OF 



(ujowrir. p. S(in\KrrzER, Pii. I), (pp. 3-78). — This account of an 

 extended and ])ainstaking research includes a record of chemical 

 analyses of the corn ])lant from samples taken at fourteen successive 

 stages of growth, from .Innc 1 1. forty days after planting, to Septem- 

 ber 24, "when the last ])lants were obtained fully ripe, though not 

 quite dry." Tabulated results of the weighings and analyses of root, 

 stem, leaf, tassel, husk, cob, grain, i)lant, and ear, separately and com- 

 plete plant, are given, with explanations and conclusions. The 



