THE FILLING PROCESS. 



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An experiment similar to the preceding; one, conducted at ttie 

 Vermont Station, In which the product from six acres of land 

 was fed to dairy cows, gave similar results. We are justified in 

 concluding, therefore, that husking, shelling, and grinding the corn 

 (processes that may cost more than a. quarter of the market 

 value of the meal) are labor and expense more than wasted, since 

 the cows do better on the corn siloed "ears and all" than on^that 

 siloed after the ears were picked off and fed ground with it. ' 



Table XIII. — Yield of Digestible Matter in Corn. 



The difference in the feeding valua of the corn plant when 

 siloed with and without ears is well illustrated in Table XIII. pre- 

 sented by the Pennsylvania State College, which shows that 65 

 per cent, of the digestible food materials present in the corn plant 

 are found in the ears and 37 per cent, in the stover. 



The Filling Process. 



The corn, having been hauled from the field to the silo, has 

 still to be reduced to a fine, homogeneous mass, so that It will 

 pack well In the silo and will be convenient for feeding. 



In- order to do this, the whole of the com, ears and all, may be 

 run. through a Silver's "Ohio" Silage Cutter. 



The corn is unloaded on the self-feed tat)le of the cutter and 

 run through the, machi;iey' after which the car^rier or blower 

 elevates it and delivers it into the silo. 



