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thing that we can never recover. We can 

 simply learn not to do it again. 



When to cut corn for silage. — I believe I 

 get the most out of my corn crop by cutting it 

 when the grains are beginning to glaze, or be- 

 tween denting and glazing. The large white 

 Southern corn I put in the silo when it is well 

 dented and it makes excellent feed — I think 

 better feed than our native corn. In all cases 

 grow a variety for the silo that will reach the 

 stage of denting or glazing before frosts. One 

 of the early mistakes with the silo was in put- 

 ting in the corn too immature. It had not the 

 nutriment in it. It had not reached its best. 

 I saw many illustrations of this fact the season 

 of 1893, which was extremely dry, with very 

 little rain after July 4. The pastures were 

 brown in August and the farmers were com- 

 pelled to feed green corn or hay to their cows 

 or let them dry up. The corn was not suffi- 

 ciently matured at this time and we found our 

 yield of butter at the creameries running very 

 low— a large percentage loA?^er than the corre- 

 sponding time the previous season. I made 

 many comparisons between the two years from 

 different patrons. The previous year there 

 was excellent pasture and after-feed for the 

 cows, and as a rule they did not need any extra 

 food. In a comparison of eighteen patrons I 

 found but one with a higher percentage of fat 



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