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plants named in the list, while the fat-forming nutriment in green corn- 
fodder is greater than that in clover, lucern, saradella, peas, oats, vetches, 
cabbage, beet, or carrot, and is exceeded only by the best grasses, rye, 
millet, cabbage stems, and elm and poplar leaves. ; 
It would seem, too, that in comparison with the English turnip, a root 
regarded as the sheet-anchor of British husbandry, the percentage of 
flesh-forming nutriment is the same, and of fat-forming material nearly 
double, in the maize, while the amount of water is less than half as much. 
The reader can pursue the comparison with other plants or roots named, 
making his own deductions, remembering that flesh cannot be placed 
upon animals at will, in exact proportion to weight of nutriment fed, as 
determined by chemical analysis, but that a thousand circumstances in 
the condition of the material fed, the manner of feeding, and the vital 
forces of the animals themselves, must modify, in some degree, every 
experiment made. 
Mr. J. H. Salisbury, of New York, who has made analyses of maize in 
every stage of its growth, gives the following as his average of analyses 
made just before the formation of the ear, (calculated without water): 
en a a a oe a meee 35, 00 
Matter obtained from fiber by a weak solution of potash ......-..----.---.--- 12. 00 
IDSs habagn er rite) JSS ee ee a a a nme 6. 04 
AN oy cra) Sia Hake LCRA EES Se see ee a Jétece satel eee 7. 96 
\WWorenby 32.408. 558 Se eee ee ee ee ree. 39. 00 
EFI ES. gaia PLAS Ik Beatie orce onin Poe Cee 3 eee 100. 00 
Mr. Salisbury arrives at the following conclusion as to the feeding 
value of this fodder: “The plant, during the tasseling, owing to the 
very large percentage of sugar and extract, with the respectable quan- 
tity of albuminous matter and dextrine which the stalk, leaves, and 
sheaths contain, must afford a very palatable as well as nutritious fodder.” 
CONCLUSIONS. 
The following conclusions may be derived from the facts presented : 
1. Green corn-fodder is neither worthless nor the poorest of all soiling 
material. 
2. It is best when planted in drills or hills, not so thickly as to prevent 
normal growth and development, cultivated to destroy weeds and grasses, 
and cut between tasseling and earing, when the elements elaborated for 
production of the ear are stored in readiness for immediate use. 
3. It is probable, both from the rationale of the case and from facts 
presented above, that in the more northern latitudes a mistake has often 
been made in sowing thickly southern corn which cannot mature, the 
fodder from which fed in August must be very nearly worthless. On 
the contrary, the fodder from northern corn, especially sweet corn, 
drilled widely and cultivated, and fed just before earing, is found to be 
very valuable. 
4, Its value, compared with lucern, millet, the best grasses, and other 
plants containing a larger percentage of nutriment, taking into consid- 
eration the quantity produced and the cost of its production, has not | 
been determined fully, and should be decided by a series of thorough 
and exhaustive experiments. : 
It is evident, from all that is conflicting in the opinion of different 
feeders, that the differences are mainly due to the degree of maturity or 
soundness of the corn. That from thick sowing, immature, colorless, 
and watery, is unfit to place before the cows of any well-regulated 
dairy. it is probable that half thatis fed is either improperly cultivated 
