CHAPTER XXVIII. 



HOW TO RAISE THE MAXIMUM CROP OF FODDER CORN. 



A GREAT amount of labor is lost by sowing fodder corn 

 too thick, as well as a large amount of seed wasted. 

 Many sow three bushels to the acre ; some sow but two 

 bushels ; and a few sow but one. I sow but one-half 

 bushel, and my corn is always too thick. The man who 

 has raised the largest crop the past season sowed but 12 

 quarts of seed to the acre. Make the drills at least four 

 feet apart, and sow one-half bushel of Mammoth Ensilage 

 seed-corn to the acre ; then, when it is about a foot high, 

 thin it to 6 and 8 inches between stalks, and I can as- 

 sure you, with a good corn season, if the land is suit- 

 able for corn, is well manured and given frequent culti- 

 vation, a crop weighing from 40 to 75 tons to the acre. 

 When corn is planted too thick, those plants which 

 do not attain their full growth are nothing more than 

 weeds. As dirt is only matter out of place, so a weed is 

 only a plant out of place. No plant is so far out of 

 place as when it is crowded by other plants of the same 

 kind so that its growth is impaired : it then becomes a 

 mere weed, and only serves to injure the growth of the 

 proper number of plants in the hill or drill. 



