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Table 17. Vay-ieties of corn used for silage purposes. 



Sweepstakes 98 



Learning 81 



E. Lakeside 44 



Gold Nugget— Gold Dollar 15 



Lancaster Sure Crop 9 



Sanford White 7 



Canada Learning 6 



Eureka 6 



Flint 6 



Bloody Butcher 5 



Big Crop Ensilage 2 



Early August 2 



Decato Early • 2 



Desoto Early 2 



Hickory King 1 



E. Rochester 1 



Early Wonder 1 



Early Mastodon 1 



Golden Queen 1 



Minn. No. 13 1 



Excelsior 1 



Cuban Giant 1 



Lothrop's Ensilage 1 



Jap. Millet 1 



Sweet Corn 9 



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Plowing and fitting: 



Plowing and fitting labor offer little chance for reduction. The 

 practice of plowing as much as possible in the fall reduces the rush of 

 labor in the spring and makes better fitting possible. 



Where planting is done by hand and sometimes where it is done 

 W'ith the one-horse planter, the ground is previously marked out. For 

 more than an acre or two. hand planting is decidedly not economical. 

 So, also, is the practice of having a man lead the horse for plowing, 

 marking, planting or first-time cultivating. Marking, planting, and 

 fertilizer distril)ution should all be combined in one operation. 



Any extra operation for fertilizer application seems unjustifiable. 

 Planters are equipped with fertilizer distributors, and acid phosphate 

 can be more economically applied through the manure as an absorbent 

 in the gutter. 



Tw^o-row planters are desirable on the larger areas of 10 acres or 

 more. 



Varieties: 



Twenty-five varieties of corn including some flint corn, and stalks 

 and w^aste from sweet corn w^ere used for silage purposes; (Table 17) 

 but three varieties constituted the bulk of the crop. Sweepstakes was 

 raised on 98 farms, Leaming on 81 and Early Lakeside on 44. Gold 

 Nnggcl apjiarently also luis its place on the liigher elevations along with 

 Canada Ijcaming. a cross between Canada Flint and Leaming. 



