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Feeds and Feedmg. 



ripe. To the novice, when a field of com is folly tasseled, 

 it has about completed its growth, but the following table shows 

 In a most effective manner that great changes are still going on 

 within the stalks and that the storage of nutrients has only fairly 

 begun: 



Water and dry matter in corn crop at different periods after tasseling — 

 New York (^Geneva) Station. 



Date of 

 cutting. 



Stage of growth. 



Dry 



matter 

 per 

 acre. 



Jvdy 30.... 

 Aug. 9.... 

 Aug. 21.... 

 Sept. 7.... 

 8ept.23.... 



EMIly tasseled 



FuUy silked 



Kernels watery to full milk 



Kernels glazing 



Ripe 



Tona. 



.8 

 1.5 

 2.3 y 

 3.6/ 

 4.0 



The table shows that an acre of com when fully tasseled 

 weiglied nine tons, more than eight of which were water. The 

 water in the com continued to increase in total amount until 

 August 21, at wMch time the kernels had reached the fall milk 

 stage, after whicb it decreased. Tbe total dry matter increased 

 from the beginning. Between the milk and glazing stages there 

 was the remarkable increase of over a ton of dry matter per acre 

 of crop in seventeen days. From glazing to fall ripeness there 

 was a further increase of dry matter, though it was small. 



238. Nutrients at different stages. — Ladd found the percent- 

 age of nutrients in the crop at different periods to be as given 

 below: 



Percentage of nutrients in the dry matter of ripening com — New 

 YorJc (Geneva) Station. 



