HARVESTING. 



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whether the fodder is saved and the method by which it is 

 saved. If the fodder is not saved the cost will be three 

 cents a bushel for husking and cribbing, and on the assump- 

 tion that corn sells for 30 cents a bushel, * * * then the 



<^ood must be 10 per cent more effective simply to repay us 

 for the cost. If the fodder is saved the cost of husking will 

 be doubled and 20 per cent will have to be added to the 

 efficacy of the food to balance the cost of the process, and 

 more must be expected if a profit is to be received. The 

 second additional cost will be the loss of leaves, as the result 

 of husking in the field after the fodder is partly dried. This 

 loss is a material one and involves the most digestible part 

 of the food. It is difficult to estimate the value of this cost, 



* but when added to the third loss, or the risk of the influence 

 of rain with its leaching effect on the fodder through neces- 

 sary delay in housing the fodder while husking the corn, it 

 is safe to say that $1 per acre is involved, or two to three 

 cents a bushel of corn." 



FIG. 37.— Hand Husking Pin. 



There are conditions on the farm where it 

 would be wise to profit by the above arguments, 

 especially where steers are to be fed in the feed 

 lot, to be followed by hogs, or where the entire 

 cured plant is to be run through the feed cut- 



