Indian Com as a Forage Plant. 



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sacrifice a large part of the feeding value which would come 

 to this crop were harvesting delayed until the corn is passing the 

 glazing stage. In the large amount of water which the corn plant 

 carries when quite green, the stockman learns why corn which 

 has just tasseled, when thrown to his cattle, often shows such 

 unsatisfactory results. Stock cannot consume enough of such 

 forage to supply themselves with the nourishment required. 



243. Distribution of nutrients in the plant. — The proportion of 

 nutrients in the several parts of the corn plant has been studied 

 at several Stations with interesting results. Armsby, ^ studying 

 the returns of corn crops at four Stations, reports the following 

 yields of ears and stover: 



Station. Ears. 



]!:^ew Jersey (Dent) 4,774 lbs. 



Connecticut (Flint) 4,216 lbs. 



Wisconsin (Dent) 4,941 lbs. 



Pennsylvania (Dent) 3, 727 lbs. 



Stover. 

 4,041 lbs. 

 4,360 lbs. 

 4,490 lbs. 

 2,460 lbs. 



Average 4,415 lbs. 3,838 lbs. 



We learn from the above that somewhat more than one-half 

 the total weight of the corn crop, grown for grain, is found in the 

 ears. 



Concerning the nutrients in corn Armsby gives the following: 



Bigestihle nutrients in one acre of corn and stover — average of crop 

 at four Stations. 



We learn that 37 per cent, of the total digestible nutrients in a 

 crop of corn grown for the grain is in the stover and 63 per 

 cent, in the ears. 



Kept. Penn. Sta., 1887. 



