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The yield per acre and the per cent of water for each period 
were as follows: 
Pounds Per cent 
per acre. water. 
nye RS eae a er ee 18,045 91.05. 
PR els Sin h ielcc oo es ss TMi eka tet eee aah. oe 25,745 88.05 
Pe ee oes cena mo Sad oS iw Be ce . 82,000 85.76 
NM Fen er kee eek Create 82 obs Thal 
REE Ns ae oo Foe he Ee sce ewe cet bes 28,460 72.18 

The greatest weight per acre of green matter was at period of 
watery stage of kernel to full milk but the largest per cent of 
water as would be expected was at the first cutting, when 9.02 
tons per acre were cut and of this amount 8.21 tons was water 
0.81 tons of dry matter and in this connection the words of 
Professor Robertson at an institute in Wisconsin seem fully 
justified. In speaking of corn so planted as to be cut for forage 
at this stage of growth he said: ‘“ Fodder corn sown broadcast 
does not meet the needs of milking cows. Such a fodder is mainly 
a device of a thoughtless farmer to fool his cows into believing 
that they have been fed when they have only been filled up.” A 
cow of 1,000 pounds live weight in order to get the amount of 
dry matter called for by the German standards would have to eat 
per day 300 pounds of corn forage such as we just been con- 
sidering. At the second cutting we have 11.33 tons of water and 







Corn, Tons |Tonsdry 
tons per | water per} matter 
acre. acre. |per acre. 
July ae ATER Pee ge re ee eS ye 9.02 8.21 81 
August ee as ATG tig, vipa dnsetae tat ees Ey dar Sctons 12.87 11.33 1.54 
Ce LIES SS ea a a eR 16.30 13.97 2.33 
NISNERT MRE nl Peres rs oa co ces ecshd ede eenc stabs tami ces 16.14 12.51 3.63 
PUREE sete rey eg eo OR a ak gio th oan caret 14.23 10,27 3.96 
1.54 tons of dry matter in the 12.87 tons of forage. At full 
_ maturity we have an average crop of 14.23 tons with less water 
than at the period of tasseling and nearly five times as much dry 
matter. 
The composition of the dry matter for each period shows 
percentagely a gradual decrease for all the components except 
a nitrogen-free extract, which rises from forty to nearly sixty-one 
