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time it furnishes a feed for cows that will not only be relished by them, 

 but that will result in a good flow of milk. The corn fodder must be, 

 however, preserved in large shocks and stored in a shed of some sort 

 to protect it from the bad efifects of stormy weather. If corn fodder 

 be left in the fields the mice may destroy considerable, especially if the 

 snow covers the ground and the winter is bad. If much drifting of 

 the snow takes place the difficulty of getting the fodder is quite an 

 item of labor. The ordinary cow giving an average flow of milk will 

 daily consume from lo to 15 pounds of good corn fodder. 



Corn Fodder vs. Silage. 



The following table arranged by WoU gives the average digestion 

 coefficients for corn silage and green and cured fodder corn : 



It will be noted in the above table that there is very little differ 

 ence in the digestibility of cured fodder corn and corn silage. Both 

 of these forms, however, are less digestible than green fodder. 



Corn Fodder vs. Hay. 



Professor Henry, of Wisconsin, in experimenting with the relative 

 value of fodder with mixed hay and clover hay for dairy cows, found 

 that I ton of mixed hay was equivalent in results to 3 tons of 

 fodder. Also 1 ton of clover hay was equal to a little more than 

 3 tons of fodder. The hay was of excellent quality. The fodder 

 yielded 2j4 tons per acre, besides a 70-bushel corn crop. According 

 to this, it would take but 2 or 3 acres of corn to take the place 

 of I acre of hay for roughage, and still produce a heavy grain crop. 



Digestible Nutrients in Corn Stover. 



Digestible nutrients in one acre of corn and stover. Average of 

 results from four experiment stations. 



Digestible Nutrients. Ears. 

 Pounds. 



Protein 244 



Carbohydrates .... 2,301 

 Ether extract 125 



Total 2,670 



Per cent 63 



