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being so brittle as to lose too much in handling, while the 
wetter ones 20.0 per cent and above will probably contain 
some forkfuls that are too wet and will make the hay dusty. 
From 15 to 18 per cent of water is about right for the 
proper handling of the hay and its settling in the stack so 
as to shed rain. This means that the hay will lose about 
one-fourteenth of its weight of water in drying out in the 
stack, besides its loss from fermentation and washing. 
The samples of hay from the second cutting contained 
22.0, 24.0 and 24.0 per cent water and heated somewhat. 
Five samples contained 16.8, 18.9, 15.9, 17.7, 19.8 with an 
average of 17.8 per cent of water and all kept well. 
Five samples of hay from the third cutting tested 15.5. 
13.8, 11.0, 11.2, 13.5 averaging 1.30 per cent of water and all 
kept in excellent shape. 
II. CORN. 
A —SILO NOTES. 
The very cheaply built silo described in a former bulle¬ 
tin of this station was filled with fodder corn. In one of the 
four compartments the top layer was composed of about a 
ton of corn, and the covering consisted of a layer of wet 
straw and then about four inches of wet dirt. The top layer 
was spoiled for a little over two inches. This and the cov¬ 
ering make a weight for the second layer of about sixty 
pounds per square foot. This second layer contained 9997 
pounds of corn fodder at the time of filling. When opened 
and fed out the last of December it weighed just a thousand 
pounds less, or a loss of ten per cent. The layer next under 
this shrank from 9721 pounds put in, to 9409 pounds taken 
iut—a loss of but three per cent. The most expensive silo 
could not preserve corn with a less loss. 
When the silo was filled the corn was separated into 
four layers by boards,and rods of known lengths were firmly 
attached to these board partitions, so that as the boards set¬ 
tled the thickness of the layers would be known from the 
height of the rods. 
The silo was ten feet square and the bottom layer con¬ 
tained 6588 pounds of fodder corn cut into quarter inch 
pieces. When on top of this layer one more load had been 
