UTILIZATION OF THE BY-PRODUCT 



to feed it in the yard in the ordinary manner, 

 will do well to weigh the above comparison. 

 Those who use the silo will prefer its sugar 

 corn to that taken from the field corn 

 stacks. Those who shred their field corn 

 stalks and feed them without waste will 

 be obliged to seek their profits in sweet 

 corn culture, either in the conveniences 

 which it affords in fully utilizing necessary 

 labor engaged by the month or by the 

 year, or as this farmer does in the five 

 weeks of crimson clover pasture preceding 

 corn planting. This was worth to him last 

 season ?119, on an allowance of SO cents 

 a week for horses and cows and 7 cents a 

 week for ewes and lambs." 



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