New York Agricultural Experiment Station. 527 

 Composition op Corn Stover. 



Water FREE Material-s, 



It is clearly shown by these analyses that the pith of this par- 

 ticular lot of stover, at least, did not differ in composition to a 

 remarkable degree from the remaining portion of the plant. It 

 contained about two-thirds as much nitrogenous material and 

 nearly twice as much ether extract, the proportions of fiber 

 (crude cellulose) and nitrogen-free extract, which together make 

 up the greater part of the -stover, being very nearly the same as 

 in the other nine-tenths of the plant. This pith, instead of being 

 nearly pure cellulose, is at least two-thirds something else, and 

 there is no reason for sup'posing that the pith of other lots of 

 maize would be essentially unlike this sample. 



It is interesting to know something of the character ol the 

 nitrogen-free extract in maize pith, as compared with the other 

 tissue of the stover. Do the leaves and outside portion of the 

 stalk contain a larger proportion of sugars and starch and less 

 of those compounds concerning whose nutritive value we are less 

 definitely informed? Actual determinations answer this quen- 

 tion in the negative, so far as one lot of stover is concerned. 

 Nitrogen Frkk Extract in Corn Stover. 



