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_ cons:mption of the ensilage, a series of bags were discovered thy 
_ were promptly taken out and the weight of their contcnis deter- } 
a mined and an analysis made of each sample, which analyses 
a could be compared with the analysis of the fresh muievial with 
which the bag had been filled. 
The large silo of the station is located in the northwest corner 
of the new cattle barn. The inside dimensions are fourteen Ly 
fiftecn by thirty feet in depth, and the stone basement of ihe 
‘barn vpon the west and north sides exteads cleven and a kLalf 
fet above and upon the south and east sides a stone foundation 
extended two and a half feet above the floor of the silo. 
a In the experiments to be described, the three bags of each 
y -experiment were placed upon a level and in a row extendiny 
_ from east to west, one bag. in the center and each of the other 
bags within a foot of the east or west wall of the silo. One 
series of experiments was carried out in 1890 with corn and 
surghum, three bags of each being filled with weighed «yuantities 
__ of the fresh ensilage and laid in the silo as it was being filled, 
_ and a similar series of experiments with corn and sorghum was 
a conducted in 1891. The following are the details of these four 
- experiments, which were undertaken for the purpose of learning 
- somewhat of the changes which take p'nc2 in the production of | 
a ensilage. / 
aa 
Experiments with Ensilage. 
‘ 1. Three bags of corn ensilage numbered 1, 2, 3, fifty pounds 
_ in each bag, were put into the silo September 25, 1890. The condi- 
a tion of the corn was a medium glaze. The bags were placed on a 
; __ level, one foot below the top of the stone basement and eight and 
& one-half feet from bottom of silo. These bags Nos. 1, 2, 3, where 
4 3 eee from the silo June 2, 1891, in prime condition. The weights 
of the ensilage when taken from. the silo were as follows: Bag 
E No. 1, forty-seven pounds two ounces; bag Ivo. 2, forty-seven 
- pounds twelve ounces; bag No. 3, forty-eight pounds six ounces. 
ze _ 2. Three bags of Early Amber sorghum ensilage were put into 
the silo September 27, 1890, fifty pounds in each bag, numbered 
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