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THE RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
CORN AND SUNFLOWERS FOR SILAGE. 
After a couple of months' rumination 
of the article by Mr. Morse on “That 
Awful Grain Bill,” I will venture to 
give my solution of the feed problem. 
Mr. Morse mentioned the growing of 
peas and oats sown together, a com¬ 
bination which I value highly, and 
which I have grown more or less for 
10 years. I have never thought I 
could afford to thrash the grain from 
this crop, however, but am satisfied that 
it is more profitable for me, at least, 
to cut when peas are at about the 
cooking stage, and oats in the “milk,” 
and cure for hay. Properly cured, 
this makes a forage hard to beat as 
an adjunct to silage made from well- 
eared corn, and I have materially re¬ 
duced my grain bills since adopting the 
plan of filling my silo with mature corn 
and sunflowers, cutting my grass crop 
as early as possible, and putting up 
each year several acres of pea and oat 
hay. 
T like to sow the peas on the rough 
plow furrows and work in well with 
disk or Cutaway ; then wait a week and 
sow oats, and comb down smooth with 
smoothing harrow. The books say that 
peas and oats at the proper stage for 
cutting green, contain more digestible 
matter than the whole crop will when 
mature. Of course, the straw is. not 
always fed when the crop is allowed 
to ripen, hut I dislike to use so much 
straw for bedding when sawdust and 
shavings are so cheap and so satis¬ 
factory. Another point in favor of 
cutting peas and oats green is the ef¬ 
fect on the grass and clover, sown with 
the grain, which suffer so from lack of 
moisture when the crop is allowed to 
mature, to say nothing of the smother¬ 
ing of the young grass in case the 
ripening oats should lodge badly, 
they usually do. 
Some one may wonder why I grow 
sunflowers with my silage corn. I have 
written to or talked with the direc¬ 
tors of two or three of our New Eng¬ 
land experiment stations, and they all 
agree that there is nothing in the com¬ 
bination, and that one would better 
stick to corn. Still it is not altogether 
as bullheadedness which makes me have 
faith in sunflowers, as I will try to 
show. In the first place, cows like 
the mixture. I have repeatedly given 
cows a bundle of green corn and sun¬ 
flowers and seen them eat the sun¬ 
flower heads and leaves before in¬ 
vestigating the corn ears. Also, I con¬ 
sider two kinds of feed always better 
than one. If I were to feed a cow 
nothing but straw I would prefer oat 
straw and barley straw to either oat or 
barley straw. Probably the stalks of 
April 3, 
the sunflowers have not much feeding 
value, but fed in silage they are eaten 
clean, and it would not pay to grow 
sunflowers separate and simply put the 
heads in silo, as has been recommended. 
Labor is too scarce and high. Then, 
too, with less cost for seed I can get 
a heavier yield of forage from the 
mixed corn and sunflowers than from 
corn alone, especially in an unfavor¬ 
able year, and growing my silage corn 
as I do, on my poorest land—usually 
a run-out pasture which I wish to bring 
under cultivation. I have never made 
as much actual profit from any other 
scheme for feeding as from this: One 
bushel silage, 30 to 40 pounds, six or 
eight pounds pea and oat hay, and what 
,early-cut, well-cured mixed hay the 
cows will eat without waste, and one 
to 2 x / 2 pounds cotton-seed meal placed 
on silage. Water, salt, pure air, brush 
and dry sawdust ad libitum. Fig. 
154 shows a field of corn and sun¬ 
flowers. L. C. LITCHFIELD. 
Orleans Co., Vt. 
Tobacco Stems for Bedding. 
E. P. B., Binyhamton, K. Y .—Our 
weather is too warm for this time of the 
year. I am afraid we will pay for it later 
on. We have had but little snow this 
Winter and prospects are that the hay 
crop will be short the coining season. We 
are hauling tobacco stems from Bingham¬ 
ton for bedding to use under our young 
cattle. Pay $4 per ton at factory; will 
apply the manure to potato ground. 
Ans. —That is profitable work. To¬ 
bacco stems are worth four to five 
times as much as ordinary manure. As 
absorbents in the barn they are very 
useful. If you could run them through 
a cutter before bedding they would be 
better. _ 
“Mamma, may I play with Johnnie 
Cross?” “No, George. He’s a bad boy. 
Let him play with the other had boys.” 
“Well, that’s all right, mamma. His 
mother says I’m the worst boy on the 
street.”—Cleveland Plaindealer. 
CORN AND SUNFLOWERS FOR SILAGE CROP. Fig. 154. 
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