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ears. The best varieties for the New England States are the 

 Learning, Sanford, and Flint corn; for the Middle States, Learning, 

 White and Yellow Dent; in the Central and Western States, the 

 Learning, Sanford, Flint and White Dent wil be apt to give the best 

 results, while in the South, the Southern Horse Tooth, Mosby 

 Prolific and other large dent corns are preferred. 



For Canada, Rennie gives, as the varieties best adapted for 

 the silo: for Northern Ontario, North Dakota and Compton's Early 

 Flint; for Central Ontario, larger and heavier yielding varieties 

 may be grown, viz., Mammoth Cuban and Wisconsin Earliest White 

 Dent. It is useless to grow a variety for silage which will not be 

 in a firm dough state by the time the first frosts are likely to 

 appear. 



Conditions from coast to coast are so varied that it is impossible 

 to assign particular varieties as best adapted to certain localities. 

 Specific information on this point can be obtained from the 

 Agricultural Experiment Station of practically every state or 

 province in the United States and Canada. 



In the early stages of siloing corn in this country, the effort 

 was to obtain an immense yield of fodder per acre, no matter 

 whether the corn ripened or not. Large yields were doubtless 

 often obtained with these big varieties, although it is uncertain 

 that the actual yields ever came up to the claims made. Bailey's 

 Mammoth Ensilage Corn, "if planted upon good corn land, in good 

 condition, well matured, with proper cultivation," was guaranteed 

 to produce from forty to seventy-five tons of green fodder to the 

 acre, "just right for ensilage." We now know that the immense 

 Southern varieties of corn, when grown to an immature stage, as 

 must necessarily be the case in Northern States, may contain 

 less than ten per cent, of dry matter, the rest (more than nine- 

 tenths of the total weight) being made up of water. This is cer- 

 tainly a remarkable fact, when we remember that skim milk, even 

 when obtained by the separator process will contain nearly ten per 

 cent, of solid matter. 



In speaking of corn intended to be cut for forage at an imma- 

 ture stage, Prof. Robertson, of Canada, said at a Wisconsin 

 Farmers' Institute, "Fodder corn sowed broadcast, does not meet 

 the needs of milking cows. Such a fodder is mainly a device of a 

 thoughtless farmer to fool his cows into believing that they have 



