On tlie Chemistry of Ensilage. 489 
Composition of a Sample of Clover and Sainfoin Silage sent hy 
Mr. Edmund B. Gibson, Saffron Walden, November 12<^, 1883. 
/ Water 57 '55 
Soluble I Soluble albuminoids 3*43 
in "Water; Acetic and other volatile acids '28 
70*36 \ Fixed (lactic acid) '76 
percent. J Soluble non-nitrogenous extractive matters 6' 11 
{ Soluble mineral matters 2 • 23 
Insoluble j i^go^u^ie albuminoids 4-44 
V^]^"" ICrude vegetable fibre 23-32 
^. Insoluble mineral matters I'SS 
per cent. J 
loo-oo 
Total nitrogen 1-26 
7. Green Maize-silage, made hy 31. Goffart, of Burtin, in the 
Soloyne. — On the occasion of Mr. Jenkins's visit to France last 
winter he brought with him a boxful of maize-silage from 
M. Goffart s silo, which had not previously been exposed to the 
air, and handed it to me for analysis. This gave the following 
results : — 
Water 78-80 
•Albuminous compounds 1 • 12 
Soluble carbo-bydrates 4-55 
Crude fibre 13-64 
Mineral matters (ash) 1*89 
100-00 
* Containing nitrogen - 18 
Tolatile acids, calculated as acetic acid . . . . -07 
Xon-volatile acids, calculated as lactic acid .. -06 
M. Goffart's green maize-silage had an aromatic sweet taste, 
and, as the preceding analysis shows, contained but little acid. 
It reached me in perfectly sound condition, and although no 
precaution was taken to keep the air from it, kept perfectly 
sound and free from mould iness up to the middle of July ; and 
even now a sample kept in a loosely-stoppered bottle is only 
just beginning to show some mouldiness. 
It is remarkable that the maize-silage, as treated by M. Goffart, 
kept well and sound for fully six months after it had been taken 
out of the silo, and in spite of the fact that it contained nearly 
79 per cent, of water ; or, in other words, that in round numbers 
100 parts contained only about 1 of dry solid food and i of 
water. 
8. Green Maize-silage, groicn in Canada in 1882 hy the 
Hon. Mr. Cochrane. — A sample of maize-silage, which was 
grown in Canada in the summer of 1882, was forwarded to me 
from that country, and reached me on the loth of January, 
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