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the first-named varieties. Henry and Morrison (Feeds and Feeding, 16th 

 edition, 1916) give the following analyses : Flint corn fodder in milk : 

 Dry matter, 15.0 per cent; crude protein, 0.9 per cent; starch, 8.9 per 

 cent. Sweet corn fodder, roasting-ear stage or later: Dry matter, 20.3 

 per cent; crude protein, 1.2 per cent; starch, 12.0 per cent. They have 

 the fat value 0.4 per cent., and practically the same nutritive ratio, 

 1 :10.9 and 1 :10.8 respectively. 



Sorghum (Sorghum saccharatum) furnishes the source of a forage 

 resembling that of Indian corn but with less coarse stems and higher 



Fig. 27. Lady's finger or kidney vetch Fig. 28. Melilot {melilotus officinalis). 

 {Anthyllis imlneraria) . 



sugar content. Under favorable conditions several cuttings can be made. 

 When fed in the early stages of growth violent poisoning has been ob- 

 served to follow (prussic acid). This danger does not attend the feed- 

 ing of the mature plant. The digestible albumen centent is 0.7 per cent, 

 starch value, 8.1 per cent. 



The most important species of clover are: First and above all, red 

 clover (Tri folium prafense) ; white clover (T. repens), crimson or car- 

 nation clover {T. incarnatum, Italian species), bastard hybrid or Swed- 

 ish clover (r. hybridum, Fig. 25), to which should be added several 

 other species of Leguminosse, nonesuch (Medicago lupulina, Fig. 26), 



