White Kaffir Corn—No seed salk. 
African Millo Maize—No seed stalk. 
Brown Dhoura—Not quite ripe. 
Jerusalem Corn—-Fairly well matured. 
These crops had all been cultivated and irrigated and had had 
the- advantage of a late fall, and yet the growTh was not nearly up 
to an average corn crop. It was not one-third of what would be con¬ 
sidered a fair crop for these fodder plants in Nebraska. 
The reason for the failure of all these fodder crops is the same, 
i. 6., the cool nights of summer. They are all hot-weather plants, 
and there is not much use in Colorado farmers trying to raise them 
in high altitudes near the mountains. 
THE LEAVES AND STEMS OF ALFALFA HAY. 
The leaves of alfalfa hay fall off very readily from the stems. 
A little pounding was sufficient to separate a quantity of the hay 
into twm equal parts, one of wffiich was mostly leaves with a few 
short stems, and the other mostly stems. Samples of each gave 
analysis as follows for the dry matter: 
Leaves. Stems. 
Ash.12.36 7.05 
Crude fire.25.68 42.47 
Fat (Ether extract). 3.46 2.95 
Albuminoids.13.12 8.61 
Starch, sugar, etc.,. 45.38 38.92 
DIGESTIBLE PORTIONS OF DRY MATTER. 
Leaves. Stems. 
Crude fibre.11.04 18.36 
Fat (Ether extract). 1.38 1.15 
Albuminoids. 9.84 6.46 
Starch, sugar, etc.,. 29.49 25.30 
Total digestible material in 100 lbs of dry matter.. 51.75 51.27 
Nutritive ratio... 1 : 4.5 1 : 7.2 
It will be seen that the two are about equally digestible. But 
they are quite different in the proportions of their digestible parts. 
The stems are properly proportioned for horses at moderate work, 
while the leaves are well adapted to the needs of growing calves and 
yearlings. 
CURING CORN FODDER. 
It has been generally assumed that in the dry climate of Colo¬ 
rado all forage crops would cure rapidly, perfectly, and with little or 
no loss of feeding value. Experiments during several years at the 
Vermont Station have shown that, in that damp climate, with fre¬ 
quent fall rains, it is possible to cut corn while still green, set it up 
in large shocks, and have it dry out and cure with a loss of from 18 
to 25 per cent, of its entire feeding value. 
