SOY BSANS IN MAINE. 



II 9 



animals ate it with great relish and the sheep preferred it to clear 

 corn silage. The composition of the fresh beans and the silage 

 are given in the table on the opposite page. 



Two experiments were made at this Station, one with sheep 

 and one with steers, to ascertain the digestibility of the silage 

 described in the preceding paragraph. The detailed results 

 will be given in a later bulletin, but the coefficients obtained are 

 given in the table below. It will be noted that the coeffi- 

 cients obtained for protein and fat are a little below those found 

 by the Massachusetts Station, but are above those of soy bean 

 silage. 



DIGESTIBILITY OF SOY BEAN AND CORN FORAGE AND SILAGE. 



Kind of Forage. 





03 







c3 



•rH 

 S-c 





03 



£> 







£h 





03 



S3 

 o3 



O 



g 







O 



O 







P 



a 





2 



03 





be 











fc 







a>*3 

 bjco 



O 03 



B 



Soy bean fodder 1 



Corn fodder 5 



Soy bean meal and timothy hay 1 



Soy bean meal alone 1 



Soy bean (seed ) 2 



Soy bean pods 2 



Soy bean straw 2 , 



Soy bean hay 2 



Soy bean silage 3 



Soy bean silage 3 



Corn and soy bean silage 



Corn and soy bean silage 



Corn and 303^ bean silage 



Corn silage 7 



Corn silage 8 



Barn yard millet and soy bean 

 silage 



Sheep. 

 Sheep. 

 Sheep. 

 Sheep. 

 Sheep. 

 Sheep. 

 Sheep. 

 Sheep. 

 Goats.. 

 Steers 4 

 Sheep. 

 Sheep. 

 Steers. 

 Sheep. 

 Sheep. 



Sheep. 



64.5 

 72.8 

 69.1, 

 78.0 

 85.0 

 63.0 

 55.0 



73.2 

 72/: 

 77.0 

 73.6 



18.9 

 44.5 

 47.1 

 21.3 



42.7 

 31.3 

 32.5 

 30.3 



75.1 



66.4 

 77.7 

 85.8 

 87.0 

 44.0 

 50.0 

 70.0 

 76.0 

 55.0 

 65.0 

 62.6 

 56.4 

 65.4 

 56.0 



57.0 



47.0 



73.2 



75.4 



72.9 



61.3 



66.2 





73.4 





62.0 



51.0 



73.0 



38.0 



66.0 



56.0 



67.0 



55.0 



52.0 



43.0 



61.0 



65.0 



75.0 



65.1 



79.1 



61. 7 



80.5 



77.4 



78.5 



70.0 



76.1 



69.0 



59.0 



54.0 

 69.5 

 73.6 



84. 9 

 94.0 

 57.0 

 60.0 

 30.0 

 72.0 

 49.0 

 82.0 

 67.7 

 66.7 

 S2.9 

 82.4 



72.0 



1 Ninth An. Rep. Storrs Exp. Sta., pp. 248, 250 (1S96). 



2 Sixth An. Rep. Storrs Exp. Sta., pp. 160, 161 (1893), taken from European tables 

 by Drs. Dietrich and Ronig. 



3 Ninth An. Rep. Mass. Hatch Exp. Sta., p. 165 (1S97). 

 * Very low; probably quite mature when harvested. 

 6 Maine flint corn, ears glazed. 



6 Maine station unpublished results. 



7 Maine flint corn, ears glazed. 



8 Immature corn. 



