CORN. 



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While I am an advocate of corn-fodder, I have never liked 

 sowed corn for winter feeding. It is difficult to cure so as to 

 keep when stored away, and seems to be deficient both in nutri- 

 ment and flavor. My stock do not eat it well, or appear to 

 thrive as well on it as on fodder from corn which has matured 

 a crop of grain. I am of the opinion that the best way to grow 

 corn for cuttle feeding is by thick planting, so that there will be 

 a large growth of fodder and small ears this to be fed without 

 husking. Some years ago, in visiting Mr. Chauncy Hills, a 

 prominent short-horn breeder, of Delaware, 0., he told me that 

 he found it his most profitable crop. My recollection is that he 

 planted this corn about twice as thick as is usually done, having 

 the rows the usual width apart, and the hills from eighteen 

 inches to two feet apart in the row. 



In the experimental work at our agricultural colleges careful 

 tests are being made to determine the most profitable distance 

 apart to plant corn. At the Ohio experiment station this work 

 was begun in 1882, and I give entire the tables, which show 

 the results of planting at different distances apart for the 

 years 1882-83. 



EXPERIMENTAL. CORN PLOTS FOR 1882. 

 Table 1. 



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