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In the fall of 1894, the test was repeated on a larger 
scale. A lot of corn was carefully weighed and sampled. It 
was then divided into three iDortions; one was spread on the 
ground in a thin layer, the second part was set up in large 
shocks, containing about 500 pounds of green fodder in each, 
while the rest was shocked in small bundles. After 
remaining thus for some months, until thoroughly cured, the 
portions were weighed, sampled, and analyzed separately. 
The table gives the losses that occurred in the curing: 
Total Weight. 
When Shocked. 
Large Shocks. 
Small Shocks. 
On the Gr 
. 952 
294 
180 
After Curing. 
. 258 
04 
33 
Loss in Weight. 
. 094 > 
230 
153 
Per Cent, of Loss. 
. 73 
78 
82 
L AI A 1 j. Jrh , 
When Shocked. 
. 217 
77 
42 
After Curing. 
. 150 
44 
19 
23 
Loss in J)ry Matter. 
. 07 
. 31 
33 
-I^er Cent, of Loss.. 
43 
55 
So far as could be told by the eye there had been no 
loss. Idle fodder had cured in nice shape, and the stalks on 
the inside of the bundles retained their green color, with no 
sign of moulding or heating. And yet Sie large shocks had 
lost thirty-one per cent, of their dry matter, or feeding value, 
the small shocks forty-three percent., and the corn spread on 
the ground fifty-five per cent. 
On breaking or cutting the stalks, these losses were 
explained. The juice was acid, and there was a very strong 
acid odor, showing that an active fermentation was taking 
place in this seemingly dry fodder. We had noticed this 
strong odor the fall before and all through this winter. When 
the fodder corn for the steers is put through the feed cutter, 
that same strong smell is present. 
It can be said, then, that the dryness of the climate in 
Colorado does not prevent fodder corn from losing a large 
part of its feeding value through fermentation. Indeed the 
loss from this source, is fully as great as in the damp climate 
of New England. 
comiDared with the losses by fermentation in the silo, 
the cured fodder shows considerably the higher loss. 
GROWTH OF FODDER CORN. 
Several of the eastern experiment stations have done 
considerable work in testing the growth of the corn plant. 
They find that the corn keeps on growing until cut down by 
