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Klondike, Wing's Improved, Brewer's, and particularly the 

 Eureka, while yielding a fair average amount of dry matter 

 are not satisfactory because of their failure to mature; the 

 resulting silage has been repeatedly shown by other observers 

 as being watery, sour and of less nutritive value. 



5. The season has a marked influence upon the yield of the 

 corn crop, the same variety of corn under otherwise identical 

 conditions yielding from 50 to 100 per cent, more in a year 

 particularly favorable to its growth. 



Composition of Different Varieties of Corn Fodder {Entire Plant) {Per Cent.). 



[As harvested.] 



Composition of Different Varieties of Corn Fodder {Entire Plant) {Per Cent.). 



[Dry Matter.] 



The varieties of corn given in the preceding tabulation can 

 be divided into four different groups according to their period 

 of ripening. 



1. Mature (dents and flints) : TwitcheU's, Sanford White, 

 Longfellow, Pride of the ISTorth and Rustler. 



