go::c;:uM as foddee. 



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SORGHUM AS TODDEE. 



It •will interest many to learn the value of sorghum for fodder, and 

 the analyses below will show how it compares with maize for such pur- 

 pose. Experiments have been made in substituting it for maize in the 

 silo, with excellent residts, as by its analysis we should expect. 



Below are given the results of the examination of the stalks of 

 Egyptian sugar corn, Honduras, and Early Amber sorghums, and the 

 leaves from the same. This examination was made for the purpose 

 of determining the loss of sugar in the method employed in its ex- 

 traction ; also to determine the relative nutritive yalue of the leaves 

 and stalks, pressed and unpressed. The stalks selected were split 

 lengthwise, so that a fair average might be taken, and one-half was 

 dried thoroughly without pressing, and the other half was passed 

 through the mill, and the bagasse, or pressed stalks, carefully saved 

 and dried. 



LEAVES, STALKS, AXD BAGASSE, FROM CORX AXD SORGHrjIS. 



Egyptian sugar corn, leaves 



Egyptian ^utrar corn, one hali of 4 stripped stalks, 



impressed. 



Egyptian sugar corn, one half of 4 stripped stalks. 



pressei. . .. 



Houdura-i si>rghum, leaves 



Honduras sorghum, one-half of 2 stripped stalks, 



unpressed. 



Honduras sorgum, one-half of 2 stripped stalks, 



pressed.. 



Early Amber sorghum, leaves 



Early Amber sorghum, one-half of 3 stripped 



stalks, impressed 



Early Amber sorghum, one-half of 3 stripped 



stalks, pressed 



A determination of the proximate constituents of the dried leaves, 

 stalks, and bagasse, is given below, from which it Avill appear that 

 there still remains a large amount of sugar in the bagasse, which the 

 process employed failed to remove from the stalks ; also that the per 

 cent of starch compounds is greater in the pressed than in the un- 

 pressed stalks, and that the i>ercentage of nitrogenous matter remains 

 nearly the same. The nutritive value of the pressed stalks is nearly, 

 if not quite, equal to that of the unpressed stalks, weight for weight. 



