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be interesting to see what the character of gain was. 

 The table below furnishes this information. 



DIFFERENT CLASSES OF COMPOUNDS PER ACRE AT 

 DIFFERENT STAGES 



Stasre of development 

 when harvested 



Ears beginning to form. . . 



A few roasting ears 



All roasting ears 



Some ears glazing 



All ears glazed 



Gain afler first cutting... 

 Gain after second cutting 



ft 



LBS 



80 

 154 

 182 

 200 

 200 

 129 



5E 



"Two facts are clearly shown. First, that the latter 

 growth of dry matter in the corn plant is made up chiefly of" 

 non-nitrogenous compounds ; second, a large percentage of 

 these compounds consist of sugars and starch, substances that 

 are the best of their class for the purposes of animal 

 nutrition." 



Not only is the yield increased by allowing the 

 plant to mature, but contrary to general opinion the 

 mature material is actually more digestible, as is shown 

 by the following summary of American digestion 

 experiments compiled by Jordan : 



DIGESTED FROM IOO PARTS OF ORGANIC MATTER 



Applying these figures for corn fodder to the 

 yields shown by New York experiments in the preced- 

 ing table, it is found that an acre yielded of dry 



