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cent, becomes indigestible. A l)etter way is to cut it young, 

 and then feed it witli sometliing that needs Avhat it has to 

 spare. 



One important and fundamental principle which underlies 

 the securing of good fodder, has been discovered and clearly 

 proved to be correct, by the German experiments. It is this : 

 The younger any crop is cut, the greater its ratio of albu- 

 menoids, and the greater the per cent, of digestible to indi- 

 gestible matter. This shows us why it is that our cows give 

 us most milk in June, when the grass is growing fast enough 

 for them to till themselves one day with what grew a few days 

 before. They always eat the youngest that is to be had, and 

 the younger the grass they eat, the more milk they will give. 

 I know Dr. Nichols, a chelnist and practical farmer, and Dr. 

 Loring, a practical and scientific farmer, have taught the re- 

 verse of this. 



Dr. Nichols, at the meeting of the State Board of Agri- 

 culture, at Fall River, said, "I find that corn fodder, sown 

 broadcast, is perfectly worthless. I demonstratsd that prac- 

 tically by experiments upon my herd of cows, and I demon- 

 strated it positively by an analysis of the plant. The results 

 of my observations and researches, up to the present time, 

 have been these : that in raising fodder corn, we must allow 

 it to reach a certain point before we cut it. In the first place 

 we must sow it in drills ; it must have access to sunlight and 

 air, and it must be allowed to proceed to a certain stage, — 

 and that stage is the formation of the ear, — before we begin 

 to cut it. Corn fodder fed to animals before that period, will 

 not increase the milk." 



At the same meeting Dr. Loring said, "Now every kind 

 of grass has just so much nutriment in it. You want to get 

 rid of the refuse, the woody fibres, and save the sugar, starch, 

 and soluble salts, that go to make up the nutritive properties 

 of the plants. * * * Immature grass is very deficient in the 

 nutritive elements that I have spoken of; ever}'" chemist 



