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pound for pound. The careful experiments made by the 
Maine Experiment Station through* a series of years seem to 
that the dry matter of the mature corn has 
the higher feeding value. For every one hundred pounds 
01 dry matter in ripe corn they found seventy-three pounds 
digestible, while from an equal weight of immature corn, but 
sixty-five pounds were digested. 
If we use these figures we find that of the 3.60 tons of 
dry matter per acre, yielded on the average by the small 
dent corns, 2.63 tons are digestible, while of the 3.38 tons 
yielded by the large dents, 2.20 tons are digestible, showing a 
dinerence of 0.43 tons, or sixteen per cent, in favor of the 
smaller varieties. 
The Brazilian Flour corn gave the greatest yield of dry 
matter per acre. If we consider sixty-five per cent, of this 
as digestible, we get 3.01 tons of digestible matter per acre. 
I he Pride of the -Morth gave 4.45 tons of dry matter per acre, 
being the largest yield of the small dents. If seventy-three 
per cent, of this is digestible, it would give 3.25 tons of 
digestilile matter. Thus, the Pride of the North had more 
teeding value in its crop, and this crop could be harvested 
with the labor of handling six tons less weight than the 
Brazilian I lour Thru. It has the added advantage that if 
used for ensilage, it will occup}^ less space and usually keep 
better and be less acid. 
The question as to whether it is better to raise the large 
or medium dents will have to be settled largely by the 
conditions of climate. These experiments show that the 
Poudre Valley is at the extreme northern limit of latitude, 
at this altitude, for making a profitable growth of the larger 
vaiieties. At a lower altitude, or farther south, the larger 
varieties would do much better, while the smaller varieties 
would not show a proportional gain. If the results of this 
season’s growth, fairly repiesent average conditions of this 
vicinity, the farmer who raises corn for fodder or for ensilage, 
would better plant about half and half of the medium and 
large varieties of dent corn. He will then be reasonably 
sure of good returns, whether the season be long or short, 
and the mixture of the two in feeding to steers or cows, is 
probably lietter than either separately. 
Nothing has been said so far of the growdng of corn for 
the grain. Until this past season Nebraska corn could be 
brought to Colorado about as cheaply as it could be grown. 
At this season’s price of a cent a pound, corn growing would 
be profitable in most parts of Colorado, especially if care was 
taken to save the fodder as well as the grain. In the experi¬ 
ments given above, the dent corns yielded more bushels of 
