It is to be noted that the Southern corn did produce more 

 dry substance per acre than any other variety; it should be re- 

 membered, however, that while the Southern corn produced 

 twenty-seven per cent, more gross weight as harvested it pro- 

 duced but fourteen per cent, more dry substance than the North- 

 ern field corn, and reducing the cost per hundred pounds of dry 

 substance into a comparable form we find it to be $0,448 for the 

 Southern, and $0,434 for the Northern. 



Ensilage shrinks in the silo, so that the number of tons avail- 

 able for feeding is less than the total amount harvested. 



Last year the shrinkage for whole corn ensilage was twenty 

 per cent for Southern corn. 



This year the Southern corn cut, not whole, shrunk 16.5 

 per cent., the Sanford cut 5.5 per cent, and the Northern, put 

 in whole, 23 per cent. 



COST OF FILLING, WHOLE OR CUT. 



Our ensilage corn in 1886 was an average distance of forty 

 rods from the silo, and in 1887 it was fifty rods away, so that the 

 cost of filling is comparable. In 1886 the Southern corn was put 

 in whole, the yield was twenty-two tons per acre, and the cost of 

 harvesting was fifty-five cents per ton. In 1887 the cost was 

 $1 08, the yield per acre being twenty and one-half tons. This 

 extra fifty-three cents represents the additional cost for cutting, 



In 1886 the cost per ton of harvesting the field corn ensil- 

 age was sixty-one cents when put in whole, while in 1887 the 

 cost, when run through the ensilage cutter, was one dollar. 



Or if we confine the comparison to the past year's work we 

 have the cost of harvesting a field of ensilage not included in 

 the experiments upon which this Bulletin is based. This field 

 is two hundred rods from the barn and would, therefore, be at a 

 disadvantage as compared with the field averaging but fifty rods 

 distant. 



The cost of harvesting the whole ensilage on the field two 

 hundred rods from silo was 60.7 cents per ton. The cost of hair 

 vesting the cut ensilage on field fifty rods distant was $1.00 per 

 ton. 



The yield in each case being practically alike, had the for- 

 mer field been but fifty rods away I believe the cost could have 

 been reduced from 60.7 cents as low as 50 or 55 cents. In gen- 

 eral we may say that, so far as our experience gees, it will cost 



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