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Ensilage. 



with sweet corn after all the ears had been plucked 

 for the canning factory. Some farmers cut and 

 shock their ensilage, and after standing for a month 

 or six weeks in the field, they ensilage it, and even 

 then it makes good silage. I have had as sour ensi- 

 lage from slow as from rapid filling, but the stalks 

 were in both cases green. The poorest silage, sour, 

 bitter, watery stuff, was from the first mentioned, 

 the second was better in this respect, and the third 

 best of all. 



This leads me to say that corn for ensilage should 

 be sown from three to three and one-third feet 

 apart, according to size of variety, so as to allow it 

 to very nearly, if not quite, ripen as you would for 

 cutting and shocking. The thoroughly ripe corn 

 makes better ensilage than the green. There is, 

 from the moment the ear reaches maturity, a de- 

 cided loss in feeding value of the stalk, as shown by 

 the following: 



Time to Harvest. 



New York Experiment Station, 8th Annual Report. 



" Yield per acre, and the per cent, of water for 

 each period : 



July 30th, full tasseled 



August gth. full silked 



August 2ist, kernels in milk , 

 September 7th, kernels glazed 

 September 27th, kernels ripe . 



Tons 



\\^ater 



Per Acre. 



8.SX 

 "•33 

 13-97 

 12.51 

 10.27 



