CULTURE OUTSIDE CORN BELT 175 



of Director R. J. Redding, of the Georgia experiment 

 station, attest: After showing (in bulletin 39) the 

 average proportion of shredded corn hay to the bushel 

 of grain to be ninety pounds, and of naked stalks about 

 forty-two pounds, or twenty-eight hundred pounds of 

 corn hay (of which thirteen hundred pounds is supplied 

 by the stalks) to every thirty-one bushels of grain, the 

 average yield per acre of the particular crop tested, 

 Director Redding says : 



"This 1300 pounds represents the food loss for every 31 

 bushels of shelled corn. The corn crop of Georgia, for con- 

 venience, may be stated at 31,000,000 bushels, sometimes less, 

 often more. Then, at 1300 pounds of corn hay, heretofore 

 not saved, for every 31 bushels of corn, the total loss in the 

 state would be 1300X1,000,000=1,300,000,000 (thirteen hundred 

 millions of pounds), or 650,000 tons of corn hay. This is a 

 very good food and worth at least $10 a ton, or a total of 

 $6,500,000. This is about enough to pay for all the commer- 

 cial fertilizers used in Georgia in one year. This may be con- 

 sidered a remarkable statement, and it will no doubt surprise 

 many a farmer who has not thought about it and who has, 

 perhaps, imagined that he has been very saving and eco- 

 nomical." 



Elsewhere he states that this saving would be 

 equivalent to a rise in price of over six dollars per bale 

 for the entire cotton crop of the state, or would furnish 

 each head of draft stock and every milch cow in Geor- 

 gia more than six pounds of good provender per day 

 for the entire year. All this for one state, only ; when 

 extended to include the entire south, the aggregate be- 

 comes, indeed, enormous. Fortunately the lesson these 

 figures carry is now being earnestly and enthusiastically 

 taught — aptly and thankfully received. Reawakened 

 hope has induced renewed energy and effort, and the 

 result will soon be made apparent by the visibly in- 

 creased thrift and prosperity of the entire section. 



Many workers are contributing diligently, intelli- 

 gently and successfully to the mission of the shredder, 

 and each deserves his meed of praise, not only for what 



