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'THIS RUKAt NEW-YORKER 
.March l, 
A NEW CORN DRIER. 
In an effort to find some method for 
drying seed corn that did not require 
so much roof space for hanging nor 
the services of two men for tying or 
lacing the cars together, as is necessi¬ 
tated by the usual methods advocated 
by the agricultural experiment stations, 
I believe I have struck upon a scheme 
that for efficiency and economy of space 
has many advantages over any other 
method with which I am familiar. At 
the same time each ear is easily in¬ 
spected, and has a definite identity for 
all purposes of germination tests. Every 
ear stored in my drier last Fall dried 
perfectly and, so far as I could judge, 
as rapidly as they do when laced to¬ 
gether with strings or stuck on spiked 
poles and suspended from the roof. 
The scheme was simply to construct 
open-bottomed drying trays that could 
be readily handled, and could be stacked 
one upon another in such a way as 
not to interfere with the free circulation 
of air around each ear. This was ac- 
DRYING SEED CORN, 
complished by making trays of two 
lk 2 -x% strips, four feet long, joined at 
either end by a three-inch strip, nine 
inches long. From the accompanying 
sketch a better idea may be had of the 
construction of the trays and how they 
may be stacked. Each tray will hold 20 
ears of an average size corn, and 20 
trays may be stacked conveniently, so 
that 4 OO ears will occupy less than four 
square feet of floor space. The trays 
being numbered and the position of the 
ears on the tray being maintained, each 
ear has an identity. It is advantageous 
to place the ears butt to tip, so that if 
an ear is taken out its place can be 
fixed, two butts or two tips coming to¬ 
gether. I have found it most convenient 
when examining the corn to remove the 
tray to a table and after the examina¬ 
tion to build a new stack. 
The first tray is simply placed on the 
floor, but the ears resting on the nar¬ 
row strips leave a free air passage un¬ 
der them. The three-inch strips form¬ 
ing the ends of the trays serve as han¬ 
dles and also as supports for the super¬ 
imposed trays, the three inches height 
being ample to provide air space above 
the ears. It can readily be seen that 
the air currents are unobstFucted in their 
passage in any direction through the 
corn. The ears rest on the inner edges 
of the long strips, the point of contact 
being at most not as much as that of¬ 
fered by lacing strings, and where they 
rest against each other on the shelf us¬ 
ually a single grain offers sufficient pro¬ 
jection to form the only contact. The 
drying room was made by partitioning 
off one end of the corncrib and cutting 
a doorway in that end. Of course, the 
corncrib should be mouse-proof. 
Lanham, Md. G. s. m. 
“So you got the opinions of two law¬ 
yers on the case. Were their opinions 
the same?” “Yes, twenty-five dollars 
each.”—Everybody's. 
CROSS-BRED COWS; SUNFLOWERS. 
I notice the article on page 185, con¬ 
cerning the Holstein and Jersey cross, 
and the inference might be that this 
might be a good thing to follow up, in 
spite of advice formerly given. Cross 
breeding is mating individuals that are 
pure bred, or practically so, of different 
breed. The result of this union might 
prove a very fair individual, but the 
next generation would go back into the 
“scrubs.” I have seen this worked out 
in the Central West with hogs. A cross, 
say of Poland China sows and a Duroc 
Jersey sire will produce a crop of pigs 
that are usually big-boned and growthy 
fellows, probably more satisfactory in 
the feed lot than if a Poland sire had 
been used. But there you must stop. 
If these cross-bred sows are used as 
breeders, they are almost sure to pro¬ 
duce an inferior lot of pigs. I would 
be afraid of the same result in cattle. 
On the same page is an item giving 
favorable experience with sunflowers 
in silage corn. I would add a word of 
indorsement to this. I am now feeding 
this sort of silage. The crop stood till 
after frost, as I always want my silage 
corn as near matured as 1 can get it in 
this climate. The sunflower seeds were 
mature, and the stalks quite hard, but 
not a bit of it is left by cattle. I con¬ 
sider it a good addition to the silage. I 
have tried Soy beans in a small way 
the past two years, but have not got 
much growth. I intend to inoculate 
them this year, and hope to get better 
results. If we can grow these beans 
on our hill farms large enough to pay 
to grow with our silage corn it will be 
a great source of protein and a cheaper 
ration. Meanwhile try sunflowers and 
let your crop stand till matured or 
nearly so. As a recent comer from the 
corn belt, I find the tendency here is to 
sacrifice quality in silage by raising too 
large a variety for this climate, sowing 
too thickly and then hustling it info the 
silo, sometimes as soon as tasselled out. 
JOHN A. FRASER. 
Tioga County, New York. 
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