92 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



good for that. I have found that the use of lime is a cheap 

 way to correct the ills the soil sutfers from, and when it is 

 used, those troubles do not occur. Until I know better, I am 

 going to use lime, and attribute to its use the increased crop 

 growth that follows. 



Mr. Wm. H. Bowker. What does the lime cost, delivered 

 at your farm, and where is your farm ? 



Mr. Daniels. The farm is at Middletown, Conn. Lime 

 costs about $4.25 a ton delivered loose at our railroad station 

 in carload lots, $2.25 per ton at the kiln, and about $2 per ton 

 for freight charges. 



Mr. Dodge. What do you consider the most satisfactory 

 stage of development in which to have your corn when it goes 

 into the silo ? 



Mr. Daniels. With Eureka corn it should make its full 

 growth and begin to ear, and it will ordinarily do that if we 

 plant as early as the 15th of May. Eureka corn will ear 

 very well, but we do not allow our corn to develop the ears too 

 much. We know the protein is a good element in making 

 milk, but with too highly developed ears there will be less 

 foliage. Whatever goes into the ear is taken out of the stalk. 

 If the plant has not tried to reproduce itself by seeding, the 

 nutrients are distributed more through the plant ; and on that 

 theory the corn is better for ensilage with small ears than with 

 larger ones. We have it matured onouoh so that it is sweet, 

 and not rank. 



Mr. Williams. On grass land where you use nothing but 

 chemicals, would you cultivate in the way you have recom- 

 mended ? Would it pay to go over grass land with the harrow, 

 where it had not been treated for two or three years, and you 

 secured a ton and a half of hay to the acre, if you had nothing 

 to put on ? 



Mr. Daniels. It would pay in one way, as it would put 

 new life into the roots ; but still you must feed the soil. Mr. 

 George M. Clark, the noted grass grower of our State, had as 

 one of his mottoes that a plant would never die if it had any- 

 thing to live for ; and if we feed that plant, it is going to grow 

 to its fullest development. The harrowing would have some 

 effect, but not as much as if you used manure and chemicals. 



