146 AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. [Jan. 



Com Ensilage (Six Samjiles). 



[Sent on by J. H. Esterbrook for the Dudley Grange.] 



Statements of Parties, 



a . Variety of corn : — 



1. Cross between Stowell's evergreen and eight-rowed variety. 



2. Common field. 



3. Eureka ensilage. 



4. Southern white. 



5. Stowell's evergreen. 



6. Southern white. 



b. Fertilization per acre : — 



1 . Three cords stable manure broadcast, with five hundred pounds 

 ground bone iu hill. 



2. About thirty loads or ten cords stable manure broadcast, and 

 two hundred pounds phosphate in hill. 



3. Forty loads stable manure broadcast. 



4. After a crop of rye for fodder, with five cords stable manure, 

 four hundred pounds E. F. Coe's phosphate in drill. 



5. Six cords horse manure, with three hundred pounds Bradley's 

 fish in hill. 



6. Two and one-half cords stable manure broadcast, on grass 

 sod in the fall, and ploughed in with four hundred pounds of 

 phosphate in drill when planting. 



c. Mode of planting : — 



1. Eows three feet apart ; hills twenty-six inches apart; four 

 kernels to hill. 



2. Eows three and a half feet apart ; hills twenty inches apart. 



3. Eows three feet apart; hills twelve inches apart. 



4. Eows three feet apart ; kernels about three inches apart in 

 drills. 



5. Eows thirty-two inches apart ; kernels about six inches apart 

 in drills. 



6. Eows three feet apart ; kernels about one foot apart in drills. 



d. Eeriod of harvesting : — 



1. Somewhat past the milk. 



2. Over ripe ; rather dry (September 23). 



3. In the milk. 



4. Ears commencing to form in the more exposed parts of the 

 field. 



5. Ears ripe enough for seed. 



6. East the milk (September 25). 



e. Yield per acre (approximately) : — 

 1. Eighteen to twenty tons. 



