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SILAGE STUDIES 



By the time this portion of the work was done, the plans 

 and labor incidental to the removal of the institution from 

 Hanover to Durham, rendered it necessary to curtail the ana- 

 lytical work to one variety of corn, at four stages of growth 

 and from four plots, each with a different quantity of seed. 



The variety was the Sanford, which had shown itself to be 

 best suited to that locality. 



As will be shown later, the various quantities of seed had 

 comparatively little effect on the composition, consequently 

 for showing the changes during growth, the results from the 

 four samples taken at each stage are averaged in the following 

 table : 



COMPOSITION OF SANFORD CORN AT DIFFERENT STAGES. 



Stage of Growth. 



Aug. 5. Tassels but no silk . . 



Aug. 28. Tassels and silk fad- 

 ing. 



Green. 





90.83 





9.17 



Sept. 2. No notes given. 



87.66 12.34 



84.56 



15.44 



Sept. 7. Some ears at roast- 

 ing stage 84.51 15.49 



The samples were cut and weighed, and the field notes 

 made by Mr. D. E. Stone, then assistant in agriculture. The 

 amount weighed from each plot v/as that cut from a measured 

 rod of drill. The comparative yields of fodder, dry matter 

 and most important constituents, are as follows : 



POUNDS OF SANFORD FODDER AND CONSTITUENTS AT DIF- 

 FERENT STAGES. CUT FROM ONE ROD OF DRILL. 



