102 INDIAN CORN CULTURE. 
from Pride of the North corn.* The Wiscon- 
sin station recommends the cutting of flint 
varieties for silage when just past 
glazing and dent varieties when “well 
dented.’} In an interesting experr 
ment at the Pennsylvania station by 
Hunt and Caldwell, to ascertain the 
food value of corn-fodder cut at dif- 
ferent stages of ripeness, of three cut- 
tings (Sept. 1 and 2, Sept. 25 and Oct. 
7 and 8), the best results came from 
that cut Sept. 25. Cows fed on me- 
dium mature corn-fodder produced 
the largest quantity of butter-fat at 
the least cost, the late-cut fodder gave 
the next best returns, while the early- 
cut made the poorest showing.t 
Methods of cutting.—At the pres- 
ent day most of the corn cut for the 
silo or for shocking is cut by hand 
with a corn knife. In the West a 
popular knife has a straight blade 
(see Fig. 32) about 20 inches long, 
two inches wide, and rather heavy on 
the back. In the East a knife with slightly- 
FIG. 32.—CORN KNIFE. 
* Cornell University agricultural experiment station, Bul- 
letin No. 16. : 
7 Wisconsin agricultural experiment station. Annual re- 
port for 1889, p. 126. 
{Pennsylvania State college experiment station. Report 
for 1892, pp. 3443. 
