58 AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. [Jan. 



by means of a frequent use of the cultivator and by hand 

 weeding. 



The same course will be pursued hereafter until a suitable 

 material has been secured for a comparative examination re- 

 garding their individual merits, as well as the best stage of 

 growth for harvesting, as far as quality and quantity of the 

 crop is concerned. 



III. 



Fodder Corx for the Silo. 



The land used for the raisino: of ensilage corn extended 

 over an area of 1.06 acres, which had been used for some 

 years for the production of grass for hay. It was ploughed 

 and properly prepared, early in the season, and manured with 

 from ten to twelve loads of barnyard manure, supplemented 

 by three hundred and fifty pounds of ground bones and two 

 hundred pounds of high-grade potash compounds. 



This course of manuring was adopted merely for the pur- 

 pose of turning material on hand to good account. The land 

 was to be laid down again into-grass after harvesting the 

 corn . 



The latter (Clark variety) was planted May 28, in drills 

 three feet and three inches apart. From six to eight kernels 

 were dropped into spots from twelve to fourteen inches 

 apart ; and the young plants subsequently thinned out to 

 permit good development of every plant. The seed corn 

 proved to be good, and the crop was ultimately in every way 

 a success. The young corn was kept clean from weeds by 

 means of a cultivator until July 11, when the whole area 

 was seeded down into grass, using one-half of one bushel of 

 timothy and one bushel of red-top. Some parts of the field 

 had to be reseeded after the corn was removed, on account 

 of a localized dense growth of the latter, which prevented 

 the grass seed from coming up in a satisfactory degree. 



The corn fodder, when cut for the silo, September 3 and 4, 

 began to acquire a slightly yellowish tint along the outside 

 of the field, yet was still green and succulent in the interior 

 parts ; the kernels were soft, their contents somewhat milky, 

 and their outside just beginning to glaze. This condition of 



