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portion of stalks will be about one ton to each twenty- 

 five bushels of grain, and the weight of the cob is 

 one-quarter of the weight of the grain. We shall 

 therefore have, as the product of the acre, the follow- 

 ing amount of feed : 



Grain 5,600 Ibs. 



Cob 1,400 



Com and Cob Meal T,000 



Stalks 8,000 



Total product of the acre 15,000 



ISTow by comparing these with the same standard 

 of value as before, the stover being equal to its weight 

 of hay, and the meal being equivalent to seventy-two 

 per cent, more than its own weight of hay, we shall 

 find the feeding value of the acre of corn to be as 

 follows : 



Lbs. Lbs. 



Corn and Cob Meal 7,000 = 12,040 of hay. 



Chopped stalks 8,000 = 8,000 



Total amount of feed 15,000 = 20,040 



With some varieties of corn, however, the propor- 

 tion of stover would be less than the above estimate. 

 Taking the product of stalks, for such cases, at three 

 tons instead of four, the total amount of feed would 

 be thirteen thousand pounds equal to eighteen thou- 

 sand and forty pounds of hay. In one case, then, 

 we have nine tons of hay, and in the other case ten 

 tons, as the measure of the feeding value of one acre 

 of corn. 



