Il8 MAINE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. I904. 



CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF SOY PEAN AND CORN FORAGE AND SILAGE. 



Forage. 





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FREE 







SUBSTANCE. 



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Early bloom to seed 1 



Whole plant, pod just forming 8 . 



Corn fodder 8 



Soy bean bay (Jap.) 



Soy bean hay ( Mass.) 2 



Soy bean straw (Mass.) 2 



Soy bean straw, hulls and vines 

 after threshing 3 



Soy bean seed 4 



Soy bean meal 6 



Hoy bean silage 6 



Corn and soy bean silage 7 . 

 Corn and soy bean silage 8 . 



Mature corn silage 



Immature corn silage 



Millet and soy bean silage 7 



13 



76.5 



2.3 



3.6 



6.5 



10.1 



1.0 



10.0 



15.3 



27.6 



43.0 



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73.2 



2.0 



3.0 



4.9 



15.9 



0.9 



7.7 



11.0 



18.5 



59.4 



13 



78.9 



1.3 



2.3 



4.2 



12.7 



0.6 



6.1 



10.8 



19.8 



60.3 



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16.0 



5.9 



16.9 



35.9 



23.1 



2.2 



7.0 



20.1 



42.7 



27.5 



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7.3 



14.2 



21.1 



41.2 



4.1 





16.2 



24.0 



46.8 



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11.4 



6.4 



4.9 



37.6 



37.8 



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5.5 



42.4 



42.7 



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5.7 



3.9 



4.0 



49.5 



36.0 



0.8 



5.3 



4.25 



52.6 



38.2 



8 



10.8 



4.7 



34.0 



4.8 



28.8 



16.9 



5.3 



38.1 



5.4 



32.2 



2 



10.4 



5.1 



36.0 



2.6 



27.0 



18.9 



5.7 



40.2 



2.9 



30.2 



1 



74.2 



2.8 



4.1 



9.7 



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2.2 



11.0 



15.7 



37.6 



27.0 



4 



76.0 



2.4 



2.5 



7.2 



11.1 



0.8 





10.4 



30.0 



46.3 



1 



79.8 



1.2 



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11.1 



0.7 



5.8 



10.5 



25.2 



55.3 



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79.6 



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4.7 



11.8 



0.8 



4.8 



10.2 



23.1 



57.9 



4 



79.7 



1.0 



1.5 



5.1 



11.8 



0.8 



4.9 



7.4 



25.7 



59.0 



9 



79.0 



2.8 



2.8 



7.2 



7.2 



1.0 





13.3 



34.3 



34.3 



4.1 

 3.4 



2.9 

 2.6 

 4.7 

 2.2 



0.85 

 18.9 

 11.0 

 8.7 

 3.3 

 3.2 

 4.0 

 3.0 

 4.8 



1 Ninth An. Rep. Storrs Exp. Sta., pp. 281, 285 (1896). 



2 Eighth An. Rep. Mass. Hatch. Sta., p. 87 (1896). 



3 Second An. Rep. S. C. Exp. Sta., p. 179 (1890). 



* Bull. 15 U. S. Dept. Agric, Office Exp. Stations, p. 390 (1893). 

 6 Eighth An. Rep. Storrs Exp. Sta., pp. 183, 186 (1895). 



6 Bull. Tenn. Exp. Sta., Vol. IX, No. 3, p. 106 (1896) . 



7 Ninth An. Rep. Mass. Hatch. Sta., p. 140 (1897). 



8 Maine Station, unpublished results. 



SOY BEAN SILAGE. 



The soy bean plants dried do not make desirable forage as the 

 cured stalks are rather coarse and hard, and are therefore best 

 fed green or made into silage. Like most leguminous plants, 

 soy beans do not keep as well in the silo alone as when mixed 

 with corn. Consequently, in the trials made at the Maine Sta- 

 tion, the beans were cut and put into the silo with corn. The 

 proportion in this case, for convenience, was about fourteen of 

 corn to nine of beans. The silage kept perfectly and when 

 fed out was nearly as green as when it went into the silo. The 



