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She  RURAL,  NEW-YORKER 
January  15,  191G. 
General  Farm  Topics 
Planning  for  a  Silage  Crop 
We  have  some  land  which  we  wish  to 
plant  to  silage  corn  in  HUT,  and  from 
which  we  would  like  to  get  as  much 
green  fodder  as  possible  this  year  to 
put  in  the  silo  for  a  supplement  to  the 
Fall  pasture.  We  plowed  this  land  last 
Fall  and  would  like  your  opinion  as  to 
the  advisability  of  the  following:  Clover 
does  fairly  well  on  this  land  when  well 
limed  and  given  plenty  of  phosphorus, 
but  it  is  poor  land,  and  failed  entirely 
last  year,  buckwheat,  vyc  and  potatoes 
on  different  parts  of  it  being  a  complete 
failure  owing  partly  to  excessive  rains. 
I  had  thought  of  sowing  this  land  to 
oats  and  field  peas  as  early  as  the 
ground  can  he  worked,  using  about  I1™ 
tons  of  ground  limestone  and  400-500  lbs. 
1  (!</<-  acid  phosphate  per  acre,  and  sow¬ 
ing  with  the  oats  a  mixture  of  Al.sike  and 
Red  clovers,  cutting  the  oats  and  peas 
into  the  silo  and  top-dressing  the  clover 
moderately  with  stable  immure  (about 
12  tons  per  acre)  and  plowing  down  the 
clover  the  following  Spring  for  corn. 
Can  you  suggest  an  improvement  on  this 
plan?  I  don't  see  how  we  can  spare  any 
stable  manure  for  the  next  season’s  crops 
on  this  land.  Is  it  always  necessary  to 
use  large  quantities  of  water  to  make 
oat  and  field  pea  silage  satisfactory? 
llow  thick  can  I  sow  the  oats  and  peas 
without  killing  out  my  clover  seeding,  if 
T  follow  the  method  I  mentioned?  Do 
sunflowers,  when  cut  into  the  silo  with 
corn,  improve  the  quality  of  the  silage, 
or  are  they  valueless  for  silage? 
Pennsylvania.  n.  L.  A. 
The  plan  you  outline  will  give  you 
oats  and  peas  for  the  silo  and  clover  to 
plow  under.  If  you  are  willing  to  do  one 
more  plowing  you  can  obtain  another  sil¬ 
age  crop  from  this  land.  As  soon  as  the 
oat  and  pea  crop  is  cut  scatter  the  ma¬ 
nure  which  you  intend  for  the  clover. 
Then  plow  and  fit  and  seed  fodder  corn. 
This  means  scattering  seed  corn,  thickly 
in  furrows  or  drills  three  feet  apart,  and 
cultivating  as  you  would  any  crop. 
About  the  last  of  August  sow  rye  and 
Alsike  clover  together  among  the  corn  as 
you  would  any  cover  crop.  The  fodder 
corn  in  a  favorable  season  will  groiv  four 
to  live  feet  high  and  give  six  tons  or 
more  of  silage  to  the  acre.  The  rye  and 
clover  will  make  a  fair  growth  to  he 
plowed  under  in  Spring.  In  this  way 
you  will  gaiu  the  silage  crop  of  fodder 
com.  have  a  less  valuable  cover  crop  to 
plow  under,  and  have  the  extra  cost  of 
plowing,  fitting  and  cultivating.  You 
will  have  to  figure  whether  the  extra 
silage  crop  will  offset  the  other  items. 
We  have  seen  fair  “catches"  of  clover 
where  seed  was  used  with  one  bushel  of 
pens  and  1 lJ/j  bushels  of  oats  to  the  acre, 
but  as  a  rule  grass  and  clover  do  not 
start  well  with  oats  and  peas.  The  sun¬ 
flowers  add  some  value  to  the  corn,  but 
for  some  reason  they  are  now  seldom 
planted  for  silage.  Most  men  of  exper¬ 
ience  seem  to  conclude  that  com  is  the 
best  silage  plant  and  that  it  is  better  to 
use  corn  alone  for  that  purpose,  and  turn 
the  oats  and  peas,  ,Soy  beaus  and  Alfalfa 
into  bay. 
Rye  as  Green  Manure 
I  note  with  interest  an  inquiry,  on 
page  1456.  about  plowing  under  green  rye 
for  corn :  and  as  I  have  had  some  ex- 
pericuee  with  it  this  year  and  during 
the  past  three  years  1  will  endeavor  to 
help  him  out.  My  practice  has  been  to 
let  the  rye  grow  until  it  was  quite  well 
headed  out.  which  is  about  June  1st  in 
this  latitude,  then  to  turn  it  down  with 
a  chain  on  the  plow  ;  follow  ing  with  a 
roller  the  same  day,  then  disking  and 
dragging,  and  plant  as  soon  as  possible. 
Last  year  the  field  had  a  good  stand  of 
rye*  five  to  six  feet  high,  together  with 
Hairy  vetch  over  most  of  the  field.  A 
small  quantity  of  acid  phosphate  (200 
pounds  to  acre)  was  applied  in  the  hill 
to  all  but  a  small  section.  No  manure 
had  been  applied  for  over  five  years  and 
no  other  fertilizer  was  used.  The  soil 
of  this  field  is  a  gravelly  loam,  rather 
poorly  drained,  and  lacks  humus.  The 
growth  of  the  corn  indicated  that  the  rye 
had  been  of  some  benefit  in  drying  out 
the  soil  so  that.  it.  warmed  up  better  dur¬ 
ing  June.  On  spots  where  the  rye  and 
vetch  killed  out  the  leaf  growth  was  not 
large:  also  where  no  acid  phosphate  was 
applied  the  stalks  were  shorter.  It  ma¬ 
tured  just  after  Oct.  1.  which  was  before 
we  had  killing  frosts,  but  on  account  of 
the  cool  Summer  the  kernels  did  not  fill 
out  well.  1  don't  think  the  crop  suf¬ 
fered  any  from  the  wet  weather.  This 
was  a  good  yellow  flint  corn,  and  1  es¬ 
timate  the  yield  at  35  bushels  to  acre 
(of  ears).  Although  we  have  here  about 
150  days  from  the  last  frost  to  rite  first 
frost  the  difficulty  is  in  not  getting  a 
start  on  the  corn  so  it  can  make  good 
use  of  all  the  hot.  weather  we  have. 
Cayuga  Co.,  N.  Y.  Francis  i.  hill. 
R.  N.-Y\ — We  are  having  many  re¬ 
ports  of  experience  with  rye  as  a  green 
manure  for  Corn.  Most  of  them  are  fav¬ 
orable,  while  a  few  report  no  gain  or 
even  loss.  As  usual  when  investigated 
those  reported  failures  show  that  the 
rye  was  simply  plowed  under  without 
packing.  This  leaves  a  loose,  open  mass 
just  below  the  surface  so  that  the  soil 
dries  out  quickly  and  the  young  corn 
plant  cannot  thrive.  That  seems  to  be 
the  cause  of  most  failures  in  plow  ing  un¬ 
der  rye.  Mr.  Hill  followed  right  after 
plowing  with  a  roller.  This  is  the  best 
practice*  for  it  crushes  the  buried  rye 
down  and  prevents  quick  drying  and  too 
much  fermentation.  We  must  all  un¬ 
derstand  that  the  rye  does  not  (nhl  any 
plant  food  to  the  soil.  It  removes  a  cer¬ 
tain  amount  in  making  its  growth  and 
returns  the  same  when  plowed  under. 
The  great  help  comes  in  the  addition  of 
organic  matter,  which  improves  the  phy¬ 
sical  condition  of  the  soil.  As  it  is  so 
easy  to  seed  rye  in  the  corn  at  the  last 
cultivation  we  greatly  wonder  why  more 
farmers  do  not  follow  the  plan.  Mr.  Hill 
refers  to  another  value  in  the  rye  crop. 
There  can  be  no  doubt  that  the  quick, 
rank  growth  of  this  grain  in  early  Spring 
removes  great  quantities  of  water  from 
the  soil  and  permits  an  earlier  working. 
We  have  often  noticed  this  on  our  own 
farm.  Acid  phosphate  is  very  useful  in 
such  farming.  It  gives  phosphoric  acid, 
which  the  corn  must  have  to  produce  its 
ear  and  also  gives  the  young  corn  plant 
an  early,  quick  start  in  Spring  so  that 
it  strikes  warm  weather  much  better  pre¬ 
pared  to  grow.  On  poor  soil,  with  rye 
for  a  green  manure  it  is  usually  profit¬ 
able  to  use  tankage  or  dried  blood  with 
the  acid  phosphate  to  provide  nitrogen. 
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farmers.  We  have  been  building  gas  tractors  for  over  24  years,  having 
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