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Half an Acre Eed Cob (corn, 5 lb. and pease 5 lb.) was planted in rows 3 feet apart. 

 The mixture was not a buccch.s; Uie corn wua a guud crop, hut the peabC came up too 

 soon and did not use the corn stalks as a trellis. The crop was fed to the cattle 

 green. 



Twenty Feet by width of block, 562 feet, Red Cob corn and pea>.e, were sown by 

 ordinary beed drill with spouts 7 inches apart; corn and pease in alternate drill rows; 

 the corn was of a variety too late in maturing to be mixed with pease; a heavy ciop 

 was obtained ; fed green ; this mixture of corn and pease, in same order of sowing, pro- 

 mises to be useful in obtaining a more complete ration for cattle than corn is in itself. 



Four Acres sandy loam ; size of the plot, 562 x 310 feet; of it, 562 x 210 feet 

 received a dressing of manure, at the rate of about 18 tons per acre ; ploughed in 

 spring; harrowed three times; planted in four lots, one each of Eed Cob, Thoroughbred 

 White Flint, Pearce's Prolific, Thorougbred White Flint and Longfellow; about one 

 acre was fed green ; the remainder was cut 18th September; wilted for two days 

 and put into silo ; the remainder was stocked in the field, to be used as dried and 

 cured fodder corn. 



The cutting of corn to be fed green to the cows commenced on 7th August. 



Particulars and Tables, showing the comparative yields, stages of maturity, 

 number of ears pei- 100 feet, and condition of the corn ensilage, will be found in 

 Part V of this report. 



Three and one-fifth acres of fall rye have been sown for feeding in the spring of 

 1892, and for use as ensilage during the early part of summer. 



PAET v.— FODDER CORN AND THE SILOS. 



It is not too much to say that no single subject closely related to successfu 

 agriculture is receiving so much attention from the agricultural press of Canada, or 

 is creating so much discussion at conventions and meetings of farmers, as that of the 

 growing of fodder corn and the making of ensilage. The economical feeding of 

 cattle in stables, and the increasing of the number of cattle which are kept per farm, 

 are matters peculiarly important to the farmers of Ontario and the provinces that 

 lie eastward of it. The economic possibilities of fodder corn and the silo have been 

 mentioned in connection with the fattening of steers for beef and the feeding of cows 

 for milk, in Part II of this report. This brief chapter is presented for the purpose 

 of indicating how the farmers in every district may obtain the largest service from 

 this crop. No specific rule or direction will be found applicable to all soils, districts 

 or seasons; but in all districts, in nearly all soils, and in every season, the corn crop 

 will yield the farmers in the provinces which 1 have mentioned feeding material 

 for their cattle during the winter, with more profit and advantage than any other 

 single crop which can be grown with as little labour and exhaustion to the fertility 

 of the land, and which can be saved in a cured condition as conveniently. 



On one plot on the farm, 68 varieties of corn were planted in rows 3 feet apart — 

 two rows of each — to a length of 90 feet. They were planted on the 21st of May 

 and came up from Ist June to 4th June. They were all cut on 12th September. The 

 average yield, weighed green, was 17 tons and 47 lb. per acre. Particulars on the 

 comparison of varieties for one season only are apt to be rather misleading. Some 

 of the varieties, which gave excellent results on the farm during the two previous 

 years, and did equally well on other parts of the farm in 1891, did not turn out so 

 well on this experimental plot; but, taking the plots on the whole farm, the results 

 as published in Bulletin No. 12, prepared by Prof Saunders, can be taken as agreeing 

 with the results for the season of 1891. The following short extract is taken from 

 that bulletin : — 



» " From the results given, it would appear that the Thorouy^ibred White Flint, 

 Long White Flint, Long Yellow Flint, Yellow Dutton, Large White Flint, Pearce's 

 Prolific and Longfellow, are the most productive of the Flint varieties, ranging in 



