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content of the corn is shown, and a point on the inclined 

 line, where the prevailing price of No. 1 corn is shown. 

 The highest value that can be placed on the soft corn with- 

 out making the dry matter in it cost more a pound than the 

 dry matter in No. 1 corn will be shown at the point where 

 the ruler intersects the right-hand perpendicular. 



It should be pointed out that this figure is not neces- 

 sarily the price at which the soft corn in question could be 

 sold. From a practical standpoint this figure might be 

 greatly reduced, because of factors other than moisture 

 content, such as spoilage that has occurred or the risk of 

 spoilage in storage. 



Ear Silage Makes Good Feed. 



Should the corn crop be soft this year, a big percentage 

 of it no doubt will be made up into ordinary silage. The 

 value of silage made in the ordinary way and the best 

 methods of feeding it are so well known that this method of 

 utilizing soft corn needs no comment here. Limited silo 

 capacity, however, will no doubt force many farmers to 

 ensile only husked or snapped ear corn. The Iowa Experi- 

 ment Station reports satisfactory results from the ensiling 

 of husked ears, while a number of tests have been made 

 with snapped ear corn silage at the Illinois Station. 



Satisfactory results were secured in three out of four 

 feeding trials at this Station in which snapped ear-corn sil- 

 age formed the basis of the ration. In two successive sea- 

 sons this type of silage produced satisfactory gains when 

 fed to fattening calves, and a third season it gave satis- 

 faction when fed to yearlings. Very poor results were ob- 

 tained the fourth season with calves. It should be pointed 

 out that the snapped ear-corn silage was not definitely 

 proved to be the cause of the poor showing made by the 

 calves in the fourth trial. In fact, the cause may have 

 been entirely aside from the ration fed, as satisfactory re- 

 sults were obtained with two other lots of calves on similar 

 rations. 



Despite the poor showing made by the calves on the 

 snapped ear-corn silage during the last year of the test, 



