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southern variety of corn called the "Evans," obtained from the 

 Missouri State University through the kindness of Prof. S. M.Tracy. 

 The stalks on this plot stood between eleven and twelve feet high ; 

 were leafy from ground to tassel ; were coarse, and the few ears 

 that started were borne from six to eight feet from the ground. 

 This piece was planted in the same manner as the flint corn just 

 mentioned. 



YIELD OF ENSILAGE PER ACRE. 



Such marvelous stories have been told of the yield of fodder 

 corn for ensilage that cautious] farmers have looked upon the 

 whole question of ensilage as one possessing entirely too much 

 fiction for practical purposes. Fields of fodder corn have been 

 estimated to yield twenty, forty, sixty and even seventy tons per 

 acre, as we read in the papers. To help settle the question of 

 yield, therefore, the fodder from each plot was weighed. Every 

 load of fodder corn before being driven to the cutter was carefully 

 weighed, and the results as given are the totals of these weights. 

 On the first and second plots all the fodder corn was not converted 

 into ensilage. The yield given is, therefore, for part of the field 

 only. 



From the first plot, or that planted with yellow dent corn in drills, 

 the yield from 2.22 acres was 53,762 pounds. This would give 

 24,212 pounds per acre, or about twelve tons. 



From the second plot, planted with flint corn, 2.6 acres of fod- 

 der corn were removed, weighing 86,570 pounds, or 83,296 pounds 

 per acre. This gives about 16^- tons per acre. In the third plot 

 there was only .15 of an acre, which yielded 6,420 pounds of fod- 

 der corn, or 42,800 pounds, about 21 tons per acre. A single 

 stalk from this plot weighed five pounds, and was twelve feet in 

 length. I do not doubt but that larger crops of fodder corn can 

 be raised than the above, but I maintain that the average of the 

 three will be up to the average crop on most farms. 



FILLING THE SILO. 



After being weighed the loads of fodder were driven into the 

 barn and the fresh green fodder was run through the Cycle ensi- 

 lage cutter, which was placed on the barn floor so that the fodder 

 passed from the cutter through a spout into the silo. It has been 



