HARVESTING. 10] 
These general results and conclusions are 
such as have been accepted on the basis of pre- 
vious investigations. At the Kansas station 
corn cut in the milk stage (Aug, 20) yielded 
39.5 bu. grain and 2.4 tons of fodder per acre; 
in the dough (Aug. 28), 51 bu. grain and 2.4 
tons fodder; when ripe (Sept. 18), 74 bu. grain 
and 2.7 tons fodder.* These results agree with 
work at that station for the three years in suc- 
cession. | 
Cutting for silage—Where corn is cut for 
silage the crop should be harvested when well 
glazed or dented. At the Minnesota station, 
where corn grown for silage was cut from Sept. 
4 to 24, the dry matter in a dent variety in- 
creased from 11.4 to 19.7 per cent, and in a 
sweet variety from 9.1 to 15.5 per cent.; At 
the New York State station the dry matter per 
acre in B. & W. corn cut for silage Sept. 11 was 
5,004 lbs., and on Sept. 29, 5,660 105. In 1859, 
with King Philip corn, there was an increase 
in the total amount of dry matter and in the 
nutritive value of its constituents as the crop 
approached maturity.t At the Cornell Uni- 
versity station similar returns were secured 
* Kansas agricultural experiment station, Bulletin No. 30, 
7 Minnésota agricultural experiment station, Bulletin 
No. 7. 
t New York State agricultural experiment station. Seventh 
annual report, 1889, p. 88. 
