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Amount of Seed to Plant.— In my early ex- 

 perience I planted twenty to thirty quarts of 

 corn per acre for silage. From this quantity I 

 changed gradually to ten quarts per acre and 

 then back to fifteen quarts per acre, on one half 

 bushel. I believe this will give as much grain of 

 the corn in the silage as the cows require, and it 

 is best to buy so'me protein food to feed with it. 

 If a farmer wishes to carry all the stock possible 

 on his farm let him plant the corn thick, using 

 as much as twenty-four to thirty quarts of seed 

 per acre and buy the ground feed. I plant in 

 rows forty inches apart with a double row corn 

 planter, always using the drill attachment. 



When to Cut the Silage. — ^A few years' ex- 

 perience convinced me that I gained the best 

 results from the cows when feeding silage made 

 from corn put in the silo at the denting to glaz- 

 ing stage of maturity, my guide in this being 

 the cows in their work of digesting the food. I 

 do not believe it is best to have the corn so far 

 matured that the cows do not digest all the 

 kernel, as I believe this is not only a loss of feed, 

 but it is putting an imnecessary burden on the 

 .digestive organs of the cows. I do not believe 

 one can afford to let the cows that are making 

 us 300 to 400 pounds of butter annually wear 

 out their digestive organs in trying to do what 

 they cannot do. The steer that we expect to 



