HAVING THE CORN STALKS 



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power instead of by hand. The cost of shredding the corn 

 is fully as great as husking the shocked corn by hand. The 

 advantages of the process are that the work is quickly done 

 and the stover is in better condition to handle, though it is 

 often quite difficult to keep it, as it is very likely to heat or 

 mold if it is not thoroughly dry when shredded. 



98. Cost of Saving Corn Stover. It sometimes seems very 

 wasteful to see large fields of corn in which the stalks have 



Fig. 28. Shredding corn fodder and storing it in the 

 convenient for feeding. 



barn where it will be 



been left standing, and where little or no use is made of these 

 stalks. There is considerable value in corn stover, yet it is 

 quite expensive to save it. Experiments conducted in Min- 

 nesota show that it costs $11.66 an acre to grow corn where 

 the corn is husked from the standing stalks, and $15.30 an 

 acre where the corn is cut, shocked, and shredded. Thus, 

 the shredded corn stover costs $3.64 per acre. A fair yield 



