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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
November 19, 
FROSTED CORN IN THE SILO. 
I had ten acres of corn badly frosted this 
Fall that 1 cut and put In the silo, adding 
40 gallons of water to the ton. I do not 
want to keep any stock this Winter if my 
frosted silage will keep for two or three 
years. Any information on this point would 
be appreciated. reader. 
Pennsylvania. 
It is not to be expected that frosted 
silage will be as good as that not frosted, 
but I can see no reason why it should not 
keep as well as that not injured by frost. 
After it has sealed itself airtight, silage is 
like canned fruit when properly sealed; it 
is good almost indefinitely until it is 
opened. There is no reason why this sil¬ 
age should not keep good for two or three 
years. hamlet worker. 
Onondaga Co., N. Y. 
I fail to see any reason why this frosted 
corn will not keep in the silo all right and 
should not hesitate to let it lie over a 
year. Your adding of 20 per cent of 
water if the silage is properly packed 
will tend materially to put it in right 
condition. Dig down into it a foot or so 
and if you find it there all right, 
I should certainly risk its keeping. We 
always cover our silage with sawdust and 
find it a good plan to go up in the silo two 
or three times within a few days after 
filling and give it a good treading as no 
matter how carefully filled some spots will 
be harder than others and the treading 
will keep air out of the softer places. 
If you keep the silage over look out for 
rats and mice, as they sometimes do much 
damage before seen. 
Connecticut. h. g. Manchester. 
I have never kept frozen corn silage, 
nor have I seen it. The keeping quality 
in my judgment would depend upon how 
quickly the corn was put up after the frost 
and the firmness of the stuff. The diffi¬ 
culty with frozen corn is the fact that air 
has taken the place of plant juices in the 
leaves and portion of the plant frozen. 
Frozen corn is hard to cut, the leaves will 
pass through with but partial cutting un¬ 
less the knives are very sharp and run 
close to shear plate. If the corn was put 
in at once and cut fine, and I did not want 
to feed at once, I should certainly chance 
the result. The addition of water may 
and may not help it. I have done both 
ways without seeing any difference in the 
quality. Everyone knows how difficult it 
is to dry the water from a cornstalk and 
how surprisingly wet dry cornstalks will 
feel when cut fine. h. e. cook. 
I cannot state positively about the keep¬ 
ing quality of the frosted silage. Natur¬ 
ally the amount of water added would de¬ 
pend altogether upon the condition of the 
silage when cut and 1 assume that your 
correspondent has used good judgment in 
this matter. If he has struck a happy 
medium, if his silo is well built and ab¬ 
solutely air-tight, if he has filled his silo 
slowly enough so that he has secured the 
right fermentation, I see no reason why 
his silage should not keep well for the 
second Winter. We have fed at this col¬ 
lege silage not only two, but even three, 
and in one case, four years old with the 
very best success. We have made silage 
from frosted corn, adding water, and have 
found it to .be really very good silage, 
though not so good as that made from 
un frosted material. I hate to put in so 
many if’s but 1 am sure that every one 
of them is essential to the answer T have 
given. c. d. smith. 
Michigan. 
There is no question that there is no 
way that frosted corn can be handled to 
so good advantage as in the silo. Being 
somewhat dry, there is of course the dan¬ 
ger of molding from the heat without suf¬ 
ficient moisture. Adding water is a good 
plan and will help to keep it. I have 10 
acres such myself this year, and shall be 
very much surprised and disappointed if 
it does not come out in good shape. As 
to keeping two or three years, that is quite 
another thing. I have kept silage two 
years and found it just as good the sec¬ 
ond Spring, except it was quite acid. I 
feel quite sure had it been kept a year 
longer no cattle would have eaten it on 
account of its acidity. The sugar turns 
to acetic acid very much as with cider 
and vinegar. In the frosted corn there is 
doubtless less sugar on account of the 
cells being ruptured by the frost; conse¬ 
quently less danger from the above source. 
I should expect that there would be dan¬ 
ger from fire-fanging. Personally I 
would not run the risk, but would get 
cattle to eat it this year; make more ma¬ 
nure to grow more corn or something else 
next year. e. van alstyne. 
Several years ago I filled a silo in 
which were about four feet of silage, 
which had been in it two years, and which 
appeared to be good. Of course before 
filling there was some spoiled silage re¬ 
moved from the top. I heard of a case 
where the fajrner had in the bottom of 
his silo silage three years old; that is, he 
had left over from other years, filling on 
top. Of course the bottom half or third 
would be likely to keep better than the 
top two-thirds would. Some years ago I 
set up my machine at a silo and cut for 
two days; the next year another man set 
up and cut as long as I had the year be¬ 
fore. In tlie meantime none had been fed 
from this silo. On the following Sum¬ 
mer T had occasion to be at the place for 
several weeks, and as they had their cows 
in the barn T went in to see them often. 
There was no pasture, but little hay, and 
so this vear-old silage was the main feed 
for the cows. For some reason, T cannot 
explain what, this silage was very sour, 
smelling more like vinegar than good 
silage. T tasted the milk, and that had a 
very strong taste of the silage. This 
man kept his stock only a short time 
longer at this place, and the next Fall I 
cut corn there again. Before doing so the 
silo was cleaned out and several tons of 
sour silage carted out and dumped on the 
land. Why this silage spoiled in the way 
it did I do not know, for there was a 
good roof on the silo, and the corn was 
good, although if I remember right the 
larger part of the ears were removed. 
Massachusetts. jas. b. hoxie. 
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Fresh Sawdust and Fruit Trees. 
L. lirooklyn, N. T .—Can you give me 
any advice as to whether spruce and hem¬ 
lock sawdust (this year’s) would be injurious 
to apple trees planted two years ago, and 
1,000 to be planted next Spring, if used as a 
mulch? Straw, coarse bay and manure are 
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Ans. —We would use such sawdust for 
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fresh sawdust comes from an acid which 
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sawdust is put on. 
Finding Money. 
A finds money on the floor in It’s store. 
B says he did not lose it. A goes to B’s 
store 10 days later. The person who lost 
the money has not called for it yet. Who 
does the money belong to till the one who 
lost it calls for it, the finder or the owner 
of tire store? f. p. 
New York. 
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except the owner. B, the storekeeper, has 
no right to it whatever. The fact that the 
money was found in B’s store gives him 
no right to it. A, however, should not 
appropriate the money to his own use be¬ 
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effort to find the owner and restore the 
money to him. Otherwise he may be 
guilty of larceny under Section 539 of the 
Penal Code of this State. After A has 
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