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SILAGE CROPS. 



digestible matter in the corn will therefore be greater 

 at maturity, or directly before this time, than at any 

 earlier stage of growth. Hence we find that the general 

 practice of cutting corn for the silo at the time when the 

 corn is in the roasting-ear stage, when the kernels have 

 become rather firm, and are dented or beginning to glaze, 

 is good science and in accord with our best knowledge on 

 the subject. 



INCREASE IN FOOD INGREDIENTS FROM TASSELING 

 TO MATURITY. 



Other reasons why cutting at a late period of growth 

 is preferable in siloing corn are found in the fact that 

 the quality of the silage made from such corn is much 

 better than that obtained from green immature corn, and 

 in the fact that the sugar is most abundant in the corn 

 plant in the early stages of ear development, but the 

 loss of non-nitrogenous components in the silo falls first 

 of all on the sugar, hence it is the best policy to post- 

 pone cutting until the grain is full-sized and the sugar has 

 largely been changed to starch. 



It does not do, however, as related under Uniformity 



