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Some Chemical Changes Occurring in Molasses Grass Silage^*

New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, New Brunswick, N. J.

ABSTRACT

The periodic determinations of pH, total sugars, reducing sugars, volatile acids, total nitrogen, water-soluble nitrogen, and ammonia nitrogen in a silo containing a mixture of oats and field peas preserved with approximately one hundred pounds of molasses per ton of green material showed that the major portion of the fermentation process occurred during the first week.

As certain of the data show the silage to be a heterogeneous mass, the inherent errors involved in the sampling technique must be taken into consideration in the interpretation of these and other results in silage research.

^* Journal Series paper of the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, Department of Dairy Husbandry.