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This data has a very important bearing on corn production in the 

 Upper Peninsula. At many county fairs samples of corn are exhibited 

 from 14 to 16 feet high. Many of these samples will only have reached 

 the silk stage while the best will ,not have passed the milk stage. Grow 

 adapted varieties if you are in a corn section, otherwise grow sunflowers. 



PEAS AND OATS FOR SILAGE. 



The usual method of sowing peas and oats for silage is to use a 50-50 

 mixture, that is, one bushel of peas to one of oats, then sow from two 

 to three bushels per acre of this mixture, the amount depending on the 

 fertility of the soil. At the Chatham sub-station two and one-half 

 bushels were found to be the best rate. 



VARIETIES. 



Use adapted varieties of both peas and oats and choose varieties 

 that will mature at about the same time. If an early oat is used with 

 a late variety of peas the oats will be shattering before the peas are 

 ready to cut. Medium early oats such as Swedish select or Wolverine 

 with such varieties of peas as French, June, Chang, English grey or 

 Belgian will give very good results. 



HARVESTING. 



This crop should be cut when the oats are in the dough stage if 

 the proper varieties have been used, the peas should be well formed in 

 the pods but not too mature. 



Peas and oats are a crop difficult to harvest. The cutting is done 

 with a mowing machine. The crop is then usually bunched or wind- 

 rowed by hand, if a horse-rake is used there is to much danger of pick- 

 ing up stones that might cause serious damage to the ensilage cutter. 

 After bunching it is hauled directly to the cutter and ensiled. 



CLOVER FOR SILAGE. 



This crop is not usually used for silage though occasionally a crop 

 becomes damaged by rain and is put in the silo. As a silage crop one 

 could not afford to grow clover, but often a crop of clover can be saved 

 in this way that would otherwise be spoiled. 



