Dry 15-15f 6,939 3 1-2 17-9$ 7,661 3 8-10 



Werner, Handbuch des Futterbaues, p. 602, gives the yield 

 of uneured maize fodder in Germany and Austria in four in- 

 stances, as follows: 50.000, 72,000, 72,000 and 52,800, or an 

 average of 60,000 kilos, per hectare. This average equals 

 53.440 lbs. per acre. One of the crops of 72.000 kilos. e M ual 

 to 64,129 lbs. per acre, made 14,000 kilos, of cured fodder, 

 " maize hay," equal to 12,470 lbs. per acre. The loss of water 

 in curing was 80£ per cent of the fresh cut maize. This indi- 

 cates that the crop was thickly sown, probably on very rich 

 ground, and was cut in a quite immature and watery state. 



It is noticeable that the less mature crop 1, weighed fresh 1£ 

 tons more than 2, but when field-cured 2 was 870 lbs. heavier 

 than 1. Crop 2, field-cured, contained 1| per cent more water 

 and also 3 per cent mo n -..than! The autumn 



weather during which the fodder stood in the field was excep- 

 tionally fine and dry. After storing, the weather of the winter 

 was very rainy and damp, and for that reason the loosely packed 

 •isture, so that the average 5 tons of fodder 

 as it was stored Nov. 11, became 8 tons as it lay in the barn 

 Feb. 8, after exposure for three months to the damp winter air. 

 This gain of water was greatest with 2, amounting to more 

 than 3J tons for the produce of an acre, and being one-half as 

 much water as the green fodder lost in field-curing, and as 

 much as the field-cured fodder contained at the time of storing. 

 ^uch variability in the water content of a harvested crop ap- 

 pears to be unexampled. 



The objection urged against corn fodder that it is innutri- 

 tious does not apply in respect to the Mai yield of dry matter, 

 for to obtain 3 r Vi (average of 3£ and 3 r 8 j) tons per acre of dry 

 matter from other forage, would require a crop of 4 tons of 

 meadow hay, and 4i tons of clover hay, admitting these to con- 

 tain 8 and 12 per cent of water respectively. 



As respei '/. the corn fodder is very differ- 



ent from meadow or clover hay. To make the nature of the 

 difference evident, I subjoin the average analyses of the dry 

 matter of Gi >' and an average of 



the two analyses of Mr. Webb's corn fodder. 



* Nearly. + M nm «Tj«>tlv 1WHW lbs. t More ex 



§ FromWetrich & KfiL^ Z^SL^tow and Verdaulichkeit der FutterstoBe. 



