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Fig. 20S. Maize grown for soiling purposes. 



cereal plant of Spain and Africa, but it has also been highly 

 recommended as a forage plant It has not been grown in 

 Ames, but in south central Iowa it has been tried with some 

 success. Mr, Charles N. Page of the Iowa Seed company 

 says: 



"It is a wonderful forage plant of great productiveness, 

 unexcelled, if equalled, by any other plant for its quick growth, 

 immense size and splendid quality, and it is thought that it 

 will prove of much value to stock farmers. It has been im- 

 proved and acclimated so that it not only produces an immense 

 crop of fodder, but will produce a good seed crop as far north 

 as central Iowa. It is usually planted as soon as the ground 



