188 INDIAN CORN CULTURE. 



Results at the Iowa station. — At the Iowa 

 experiment station, according to Prof. James 

 Wilson,* the following yields of soiling crops 

 on an acre of land each were obtained: 



Total dry matter 

 Total green food, in green food. 



Oats and peas 20,800 lbs. 6,656 lbs. 



Second-crop clover. . . 14,400 lbs. 2,880 lbs. 



Rape 54,400 lbs. 5,755 lbs. 



Sweet corn 36,800 lbs. 12,512 lbs. 



While the corn gave a smaller yield of the 

 green food than the rape it produced more than 

 twice as much dry matter. 



The milk made by cows fed different soiling 

 crops was taken to the college creamery and 

 the butter made from it was scored for flavor 

 by experts, rating 45 points for perfection. 

 Blue grass, oats and peas, and clover butters 

 scored 42, rape butter 39 and sweet corn butter 

 45, or perfection. Prof. Wilson says: "The 

 sweet-corn butter had the very finest flavor 

 and suggests the reason why Western corn-fed 

 butters rank so high. Many Iow*a farmers feed 

 nothing but corn and its fodders." 



Experiments at Pennsylvania station.— At 

 the Pennsylvania station experiments were con- 

 ducted for three years to ascertain the food 

 yield of forage corn.f Two kinds of corn were 

 planted, some plats thick, others thin, on plats 



*Breeder''s Gazette, March 7, 1894, p. 151. 

 t Annual Report Pennsylvania agricultural experiment 

 station, 1892, p. 22. 



