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of the nation is produced, there is a prodigious and 

 profligate waste of this valuable material. In this 

 section valuable land is used for the production of 

 timothy hay upon every farm, to be used for roughness, 

 and acres of corn stover are allowed to go almost 

 entirely to waste. 



Comparison of Nutrients in Ear and Stover — 

 According to the investigations of Armsby* and 

 others, the digestible nutrients of the entire corn plant 

 are distributed between the ear and stover about as 

 follows : 



DISTRIBUTION OF DIGESTIBLE NUTRIENTS IN CORN 



This table indicates that approximately 63 per cent, or 

 practically two-thirds of the digestible material of the entire 

 crop, is lodged in the ear, and about 37 per cent, or a little 

 more than one-third, is found in the stover. 



The corn grower perhaps does not realize when 

 he harvests and utilizes only the ears that he willfully 

 wastes more than one-third of the crop that he has 

 been at the pains of growing. 



CORN STOVER COMPARED WITH TIMOTHY HAYf 



Water 



Ash 



Fiber .. , 



Far, 



Protein 



Nitrogen free extract 



Timothy 

 hay for 

 com- 

 parison 



% 



5.1 



33.5 



2.9 



6.8 



51.7 



*Pennsylvania state college report, 1887. 

 tLindsey United States Year Book, 1896. 



