Preserving Green Forage 53 



[From the Farm, Field, and Stockman.] 



SWEET FORAGE IN WINTER. 



COLCORD'S GOVERNOR IN PRACTICAL USE. PAR- 

 TICULARS FROM MR. COLCORD HIMSELF. 



GENERAL C. H. HOWARD: 



Sir, I never planted corn any better, culti- 

 vated better, or manured better than this year; 

 but the season here has been unusually bad 

 for corn, cold and wet to a degree I have 

 never seen before. The corn did not grow. 

 It was two feet less in height, the leaves were 

 about half the usual size, and the stalks small : 

 it was badly frost-bitten about September i. 



During the months of September and Octo- 

 ber, the rain was as continuous as the rainy 

 season of California or some parts of the 

 South. Very little corn around here ripened, 

 and nearly all the fodder spoiled in curing. 



I cut mine into the silo September 18 to 24. 

 It rained all that week except half a day. We 

 were four days putting it in. It rained so 

 hard 2 days that we could not work. It aver- 

 aged 13 tons to the acre (last year 19 tons). 

 All the corn was in the milk. It was put in 

 very wet, cut to half-inch. I put in 3 gov- 



