164 



Feeds and Feeding. 



either green or dry, which are grown for forage and from which 

 the ears or "nubbins," if they carry any, have not been removed. 

 "Stover" applies to the dry stalks of corn from which the ears 

 have been removed. Fodder corn or com fodder, then, is the corn 

 plant, either fresh or cured, with or without ears, which has been 

 grown for forage; stover is shock corn minus the ears. 



236. Thickness of planting and nutrients. — At the Illinois Sta- 

 tion ^ Morrow and Hunt, studying the results of thick and thin 

 seeding on the yield of nutrients, reached conclusions at the end 

 of three years' study which are summarized in the table below. 

 In these trials dent corn was planted in varying rates, from one 

 kernel every three inches to one every twenty -four inches, the 

 corn rows being three feet eight inches apart. 



BesuUs of planting corn kernels various distances apart in rows, aver- 

 age of three years' trials — Illinois Station. 



We observe that with the kernels three incLes apart in the 

 row, or 47,000 per acre, there were thirteen bashels of sound 

 ears and forty-six bushels of poor ears or nubbins per acre. 

 Poor as are these returns from the standpoint of grain produc- 

 tion, we gather the interesting and exceedingly important fact 

 that with thick planting there were the largest returns in total 

 digestible nutrients per acre. Over 6,000 pounds of digestible 

 dry matter were seemed in nearly five tons of stover and corn 

 harvested. With this thickness of seeding there were 3. 6 pounds 

 of stover for each pound of grain. The largest yield of sound 



1 Bui. 13. 



