198 AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. [Jan. 



4. Experiments with Stowell's Evergreen Sweet 

 Corn for Ensilage (1891). 



Field D. 



The area occupied by this field is 328 feet long and 70 

 feet wide (22,960 square feet, or .53 of an acre). It runs 

 parallel with Field C from east to west, and is separated 

 from the latter by an unmanured strip of grass land 20 feet 

 wide. The land has served in previous years for various 

 field and garden crops, and was manured annually for 

 several years back with 600 pounds of fine-ground bone and 

 200 pounds of muriate of potash per acre. The soil consists 

 of a light loam, is fairly uniform and several feet in depth. 

 It was ploughed during the autumn of 1890 and reploughed 

 April 17, 1891. The same amount of fine-ground bone and 

 muriate of potash as in preceding years was applied broad- 

 cast April 24 (315 pounds of the former and 105 pounds of 

 the latter). 



The entire field was planted May 2 with Stowell's Ever- 

 green sweet corn ; the seed did not come up very satisfac- 

 torily. 



New seed corn was planted May 25 with good success ; 

 yet the crop remained late throughout the season „ The 

 crop with ears well developed, kernels in the milk, was cut 

 for ensilage September 10. The total yield amounted to 

 17,800 pounds, or 16.9 tons per acre. 



The whole plant was cut into pieces of from one to two 

 inches in length, and without delay carefully packed into a 

 silo in a way similar to that described in previous reports. 

 The ensilage is designed to serve during the present winter 

 season in feeding experiments, to compare its merits with 

 ensilage prepared from a dent corn variety, Pride of the 

 North, raised under similar conditions and of a correspond- 

 ing state of maturity. 



