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from the standing stalks during- the autumn, or as soon as convenient. 

 After the ears have been harvested, the remaining stalks are utilized by 

 turning cattle, sheep, or horses upon them to secure what they can 

 from the waste grain and the dry fodder. The nutritive value of 

 such fodder is slight, especially during the winter. The second 

 method of harvesting corn is to cut the stalks a short time before the 

 grain is mature and while the foliage is still green. The stalks are 

 placed in shocks to cure, after which the ears are husked out and the 

 remaining stalks may be reshocked, or placed in stacks or barns, and 

 constitute what is usually known as corn fodder or, more properly, 

 corn stover. Properly cured corn stover is quite nutritious and com- 

 pares favorably with hay. When the fodder is shredded a greater 

 proportion is utilized. There is considerable deterioration in the 

 nutritive value of stover during storage in the field or even in barns. 



The value of corn grown for hay should not be underestimated. 

 A\ nen planted thickly so that the ears are reduced to one-half or one- 

 fourth the normal size and the stalks cut earlier than when grown for 

 grain, the fodder is large in quantity and very excellent in quality. 

 Besides its value for hay, corn is one of the best plants for silage or 

 ensilage and for a soiling crop. 



The pasturing tests at the Nebraska Station show that one-fifth acre 

 plot gave eighteen and one-half days' pasturage for one cow, but" 

 though "It may be of value to furnish feed between the periods of 

 rye and sorghum pasturage, it is not equal to either of these." 



Soy Bean. 



Soy bean ( Glycine hispida) a is a leguminous plant grown for forage 

 and for grain. For forage it is much used in the Middle South, but 

 has not thus far given much promise for this purpose in Nebraska. 

 For seed or grain it has given fairly good results in Kansas. (See 

 Bulletin No. 100 of the Kansas Experiment Station.) In that State 

 the Early Yellow variety has given the best returns. There is some 

 difficulty in harvesting the crop, as a special harvester is required if 

 the beans are raised on a large scale. 



So}^ beans (American coffee berry) were tested in 1898 to determine 

 their value as summer feed, but the results were not sufficiently satis- 

 factory to warrant the continuance of the experiment. (See Bulletin 

 69 of the Nebraska Experiment Station.) In 1896 a plot of soy beans 

 yielded at the rate of 15,000 pounds of green fodder per acre. 



Several varieties have been grown at the Nebraska Station to test 

 their seed production, but the results were not satisfactory, as none 

 gave a sufficiently high yield to be profitable for this purpose. 



«For a full account, see Farmers' Bulletin No. 58, United States Department of 

 Agriculture. 



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