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Another thing I would like to ask the speaker. Did I 

 understand you correctly as saying that the dried matter 

 of corn was equal only in digestibility to the dry matter of 

 ensilage ? I had supposed that the dry matter in corn stalks 

 was not worth nearly so much as the dry matter in dry 

 corn, because, when I ask the cow about it, she says, " I will 

 take the corn every time." 



Professor Cheesmax. I said that, while the amount of 

 dry matter in corn meal was not all digestible, I was 

 willing to consider the amount of dry matter found in 

 corn meal as equal to that found in ensilage in digestibility, 

 and give the corn me,al the benefit. 



Secretary Sessions. Those of you who have perused the 

 bulletins from the Hatch Experiment Station will remember 

 that Professor Brooks found in his practice that clover 

 followed the application of potash ; that wherever potash 

 was used there clover came. On the plot right opposite 

 to it, where no potash was used, there was no clover. The 

 clover remains for several years where the potash was used. 

 These were experimental plots, but the same thmg holds 

 good, I believe, on the farm. 



Mr. Lynde. I would like to have Professor Roberts tell 

 us just what his soil is. Is it entirely free from grass and 

 entirely free from stones or rocks, and, if not, how great a 

 part of it has stones or rocks or gravel upon it? 



Professor Roberts. Allow me to preface the answer by 

 saying that I have made a long study of the corn crop, seeing 

 that it was the great American plant above all others, and I 

 have had a very wide experience in the far-away South, 

 having raised seventy acres of corn there this year, in 

 Mississippi, and in the far West, in Iowa, having raised 

 a large quantity of corn there in previous years ; and, 

 having had fifteen or twenty years' experience at Cornell 

 University, and having made a great many experiments, I 

 think I have learned somewhat of the law of the corn plant. 

 I do not think I know it all, by any means. I am still 

 pegging away at this sul^ject, because I believe it is the 

 plant to be raised as a forage plant fjir more than it has 

 been, and I think w^e have not taken pains enough to study 

 the law of raising corn. 



