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INDIAN CORN CULTURE. 



from Pride of the North corn.* The Wiscon- 

 sin station recommends the cutting of flint 

 varieties for silage when just past 

 glazing and dent varieties when "well 

 dented."! In an interesting experi- 

 ment at the Pennsylvania station by 

 Hunt and Caldwell, to ascertain the 

 food value of corn-fodder cut at dif- 

 ferent stages of ripeness, of three cut- 

 tings (Sept. 1 and 2, Sept. 25 and Oct. 

 7 and 8), the best results came from 

 that cut Sept. 25. Co\vs fed on me- 

 dium mature corn-fodder produced 

 the largest quantity of butter-fat at 

 the least cost, the late-cut fodder gave 

 the next best returns, while the early- 

 cut made the poorest showing. J 



Methods of cutting. — ^At the pres- 

 ent day most of the corn cut for the 

 silo or for shocking is cut by hand 

 with a corn knife. In the West a 

 popular knife has a straight blade 

 (see Fig.- 32) about 20 inches long, 

 two inches wide, and rather heavy on 

 the back. In the East a knife with slightly- 



■* Cornell University agricultural experianent station, Bul- 

 letin No. 16. 



tWisconsin agricultural experiment station. Annual re- 

 port for 1889, p. 126. 



JPennsylvania State college experiment station. Report 

 for 1892, pp. 34-43. 



