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On the Chemistry of Ensilage. 
Composition of Eye and Maize Silage sent from Boston, and 
Analysed Maech 10th, 1883. 
Eye Silage. 
Maize Silage. 
Water 
Fatty matter and chlorophyll . . 
Butyric and other volatile acids 
Lactic and non-volatile acids . . 
Soluble carbo-hydrates . . 
*Soluble albuminous compounds 
Soluble mineral matters . . 
flnsoluble albuminoids 
Digestible cellular iibre . . 
Indigestible woody fibre . . 
Insoluble mineral matters 
* Containing nitrogen 
t 
75-19 
■86 
•11 
•02 
1-10 
1-01 
•98 
•75 ' 
8-41 
11-08 
•49 
100-00 
•16 
•12 
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82^40 
•59^ 
•22 
1^26 
2-58 
•50 
•60, 
•76 
5-43 
5-14 I 
•52 
100-00 
•08 
•12 
The rye-silage, it will be seen, contained about 7 per cent, 
less water than the maize-silage, and much less acid than the 
latter, which appears to have been too far advanced in growth, 
and to have become rather woody before it was ensilaged. 
The maize silage was the better food of the two. Both were 
good and wholesome foods. Well-made silage, in conjunction 
with decorticated cotton-cake, produces abundance of good and 
rich milk. 
After having taken quantities requisite for the analyses, I sent 
the two barrels to our farm-manager at Woburn, who reported 
to me that the cattle took the silage at once, and apparently 
liked it much, and, as far as could be judged, did well upon it. 
Strange to say, fattening pigs did not seem to care for either the 
rye- or maize-silage, and would not touch them at first. 
Mr. Edward Atkinson, of Boston, Mass., writes : — " It may 
interest the public to know that I measured off half an acre of 
good land and planted it in the autumn with winter rye, which 
I reaped a little too late, when the straw had hardened, about 
the middle of June of last year. I then planted Southern corn 
(maize), the growth of which was checked considerably by the 
drought, but which reached an average height of 10 feet, and 
which was cut in September. I computed the total of the two 
crops at 20 tons, and I think it would have been 4 or 5 
tons more except for the drought. I shall carry my two cows 
from fall feed to summer pasture, with a considerable quantity 
left over. 
