CORN-STALK FODDER. 



STATEMENT OF MYRON ADAMS, OF ONTARIO COUNTY. 



Having had some experience in sowing corn broadcast for fodder, 

 and finding it usually much injured by weeds, I determined last spring 

 to sow corn in drills for fodder. The soil was a gravelly clay loam, 

 and was in oats the year before — partially manured, probably six or 

 eight loads upon the piece. Plowed and harrowed the22d May, and 

 marked off into drills three feet apart. Corn dropped from a basket, 

 intended to have a kernel once in two inches, and covered with a hoe 

 — plastered, cultivated and hoed it on the 7th of June — 19th June, 

 cultivated it again, but did not hoe it. The corn grew rapidly, was 

 very rank, ancl covered the ground. It appeared to have attained its 

 growth by the 20th of August, at which time we commenced cutting. 

 It was cut with a corn cutter, and laid on the ground to wilt. After 

 a day or two, it was bound in very small bundles, and stacked like 

 corn, seven bundles in a stack, bound around the top. The 14th of 

 September, the weather having been very dry, it was drawn to the 

 barn, after having been weighed upon hay scales. The amount of 

 seed used was one bushel and a half. 



Expenses of cultivation : — 



Expense of plowing and harrowing, $3 . 00 



Drilling and seed, 2.50 



Cultivating and hoeing, 1 . 00 



Harvesting and carting, weighing, &c., 5 .50 



$12.00 

 Cr. By 7565 lbs. corn fodder, at 40s. per ton,! |19.00 

 Rate per acre, 9,520 lbs. 



P. S. — The hired men who assisted me in the cultivation of the 

 fodder are gone from me, and the man who assisted in weighing did 

 not take notes of the amount. 



