188 INDIAN CORN CULTURE. 
Resuits at the Iowa station.—At the lowa 
experiment station, according to Prof. James 
Wilson,* the following yields of soiling crops 
on an acre of land each were obtained: 
Total dry matter 
Total green food. im green food. 
Oats and peas........ 20,800 lbs. 6,656 Ibs. 
Second-crop clover... 14,400 105. 2,880 lbs. 
ἘΞ δε Xe cae the Wie ee ee 5,755 105. 
Sweet corn......... 36,800 lbs. 12,512 lbs. 
While the corn gave a smaller yield of the 
green food than the rape it produced more than 
twice as much dry matter. 
The milk made by cows fed different soiling 
’ crops was taken to the college creamery and 
the butter made from it was scored for flavor 
by experts, rating 45 points for perfection. 
Blue grass, oats and peas, and clover butters 
scored 42, rape butter 39 and sweet corn butter 
45, or perfection. Prof. Wilson says: “The 
sweet-corn butter had the very finest flavor 
and suggests the reason why Western corn-fed 
butters rank so high. Many Iowa farmers feed 
nothing but corn and its fodders.” 
Experiments at Pennsylvania station.—At 
the Pennsylvania station experiments were con- 
ducted for three years to ascertain the food 
yield of forage corn. Two kinds of corn were 
planted, some plats thick, others thin, on plats 
* Breeder’s Gazette, March 7, 1894, p. 151. 
+ Annual Report Pennsylvania agricultural experiment 
station, 1892, p. 22. 
