1910. 
THE RURAb NEW-YOKKKR 
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MARKET FOR BALED FODDER. 
A friend of mine and myself have a 
lot of corn fodder. I read in some agri¬ 
cultural paper about shredded corn fodder 
and baled after it was shredded. I was 
not interested at that time, and lost track 
of the item. Will you give me full par¬ 
ticulars how dry the fodder must be to 
keep from molding when baled, whether 
coarse or fine fodder is preferred to bale, 
and where can I find the best market for 
the fodder after it is ready, about two 
carloads? c. J. v. 
Maryland. 
We have not found this baled fodder 
in any of the Eastern markets, and 
doubt if you could sell it to advantage. 
At one time the fodder was sold in the 
West, but we do not think it is now 
offered in any quantity. We advise you 
not to bale the fodder until you are 
sure of a sale for it. Better correspond 
with hay dealers first. The fodder 
must be very dry before baling. The 
fine shreds are best. 
AUSTRALIAN HEN RECORDS. 
For several years Prof. D. F. Laurie, of 
the Rosewortby, South Australia, Agricul¬ 
tural College, has conducted an egg-laying 
competition and the facts regarding the 
last one, ending March 31, 1910, have just 
come to hand. Australian poultrymen have 
taken increased interest in these tests, the 
number of birds entered April 1, 1909, 
078, being considerably in excess of any 
previous year. These were divided into 113 
pens of six each. Most of the hens were 
White Leghorns and Black Orpingtons, 65 
pens, 390 birds of the former and 19 pens, 
114, Black Orpingtons. The remaining 29 
pens were divided as follows : Five Silver 
Wyandotte; four each White Wyandotte 
and Buff Orpington; three S. C. Brown Leg¬ 
horn ; two each White Orpington, 11. C. 
Brown Leghorn, Mirorca and Langshan, 
and one each Black and Buff Leghorn, An¬ 
cona, Andalusian and Plymouth Rock. The 
pens are of galvanized iron, five feet high 
in front, and four in the rear, with floor 
space 6x4 feet. Half the front is closed 
and the remainder left open for ventilation. 
Straw and matting are used for windbreaks 
and protection when needed Each pen 
has a run 40x10 feet, frequently forked over 
and kept covered with straw. 
During Winter, from April to September 
in that latitude, the hens were fed a hot 
mash in the morning and cold mash the 
remainder of the year. The mash was one- 
third chaffed Alfalfa and the remainder 
bran and meat meal. At noon two ounces 
of green food was given, and at night about 
two ounces of grain, wheat, maize or peas. 
The market value of all the food used by 
the 678 birds for 12 months was about 
$907. The total number of eggs laid was 
123,133, worth at market prices $2,282, 
leaving a profit over feed cost of $1,375, or 
a trifle over $2 per hen. The highest rec¬ 
ord by any pen was 1,531 eggs, averaging 
25 ounces per dozen, laid by the six White 
Leghorns in pen 17. None of the other 
breeds came near to the Leghorn record, 
though two pens of Black Orningtons laid 
over 1,200 each. 
KEEPING SILAGE. 
For about 10 years I have made con¬ 
siderable inquiry and investigation into the 
value of silage as an economical feed. The 
fact that nearly five times the feed can 
be grown on one acre of soil, compared 
with dry hay, when cultivated to corn for 
silage, has enlisted the interest of thou¬ 
sands of progressive farmers all over the 
Union. These farmers have mostly been 
dairymen, yet quite a few have turned 
this most valuable food into the channels 
for the production of meat to a satisfac¬ 
tory extent. As the prices of grain and 
factory by-products have been advanced, 
the growing of silage has become more in¬ 
tensified, especially in the added fertility 
to the soils used in growing corn for this 
particular crop. Greater tonnage has been 
added each year- to such treated soils. 
Flattering results have contributed to the 
interest of growing silage, hence it has 
become a fixed product in the economic 
production for milk and meat. 
It will keep just so long as the air is 
absolutely excluded, and remain as a 
wholesome food for some years. The 
writer has been inside of hundreds of 
silos of all makes and conditions. I have 
seen silage four years old that was as 
good as when first opened shortly after 
filling. I have known it to be sealed up in 
the Spring and kept until December, then 
opened and fed until May, then sealed over 
again and opened in August and fed out 
in a period of drought, seemingly as good 
as when first used. 1 have done this 
from a wooden-hoop silo costing $83 for 
a 100-ton pit, and can do it again, pro¬ 
vided I stand over the packing of the 
silage in the silo and the corn is sufficiently 
matured and not over-ripe. The moisture 
that nature provides is worth immensely 
more than the water that is squirted in 
through a nozzle. The former is food, the 
latter fails to provide. Many failures have 
been made in ensiling corn only because of 
lack of knowledge in furnishing proper 
silos, sufficiently ripened corn and failure 
is compacting and distributing the whole 
plant evenly over the whole surface of the 
Silo. GEO. E. SCOTT. 
KEEPING CORN FODDER. 
I have 1% acre field corn that I expect 
to have shredded and husked by machine. 
I understand that it is rather liable to 
spoil and should be mowed away by alter¬ 
nating layers of straw, or any very dry 
fodder, and the shredded corn. Could it 
not be shredded in field near corn piece 
and spread on sod and dried and handled 
like hay? Will the fodder be enough bet¬ 
ter after shredding to pay for the ex¬ 
pense? l. M. s. 
Franklin, N. H. 
Layers of straw or hay is the best way 
to keep shredded fodder. Don't shred in 
the lot and leave to dry. The best way is 
not to shred too much at a time; shred 
once a week or so if you own a machine, 
or shred and put in hay or straw if you 
have to do it all at once. 
New York. clark ALLIS. 
It is extremely difficult to get cornstalks 
so well cured in this climate, as to be 
safely put into mows either shredded or 
husked, unless alternated with layers of 
dry straw or hay. I would not consider 
the plan of spreading the shredded fodder 
to be dried on the ground. This for two 
reasons, the extra labor and the damage 
from dew and possibly rain. A fine plan 
with corn fodder is to feed into the shred¬ 
der with the corn about one-fourth part 
of dry straw or hay and mow altogether. 
In this way the corn may be shredded 
much less dry and the straw will be great¬ 
ly increased in feeding value, being very 
much more palatable. A most valuable 
combination is to feed one-fourth clover 
hay into the shodder with the corn, and if 
this is done with the corn not too much 
cured I would greatly prefer the mixture 
thus made to the best Timothy hay. I 
have seen mows of corn fodder both shred¬ 
ded and simply husked that were made 
almost solid by white mould and would 
consider such almost worthless if not dan¬ 
gerous to feed. j. s. woodward. 
On as small a lot as 1 % acre it would 
be much cheaper to husk the corn by hand 
and cut the fodder later. Corn fodder cut 
or shredded will spoil if damp or green. 1 
leave my corn in the field till it has one 
freeze that will kill all the sap, then draw 
it in and mow it in tiers; that is, com¬ 
mence at the hack of the mow and lay two 
rows of bundles with the tops all together, 
and tramp them as little as possible. A 
36-foot mow will hold four tiers, and the 
butts will leave an air space between the 
tiers. You can take out any one tier clear 
to the bottom if you wish. Cut or shred¬ 
ded fodder is better feed or bedding and 
goes farther. Last Fall I husked six acres 
of corn in 21 hours, 535 bushel crates: put 
the fodder in two bays about Thanksgiving 
time, and did not have any trouble except 
a load or two that had a heavy dew on it 
when put in. I had one man to help me; 
the time included two sets of the machine. 
It would not do at all to spread fodder on 
the ground ; it never could be gathered up 
again, but so small a lot as 1% acres 
could be handled over after it was shred¬ 
ded in the barn once or twice, and it would 
be all right. I have tried straw and do 
not like It, although it helps to keep the 
fodder. w. J. w. 
New York. 
Cutting Corn by Hand.—I n cutting of 
corn I would prefer to have the ears fully 
matured. Most of the corn in this neigh¬ 
borhood is check-rowed, that is planted so 
it can be worked both ways. We cut our 
shocks six by eight or 48 hills to the 
shock, cutting eight rows wide and six 
ahead, make a bracket of four hills twisted 
together in such a manner as to form a 
cross. Some use just two hills, but I pre¬ 
fer four, as the shocks stand better and 
the hills are easier to get at to cut when 
you come to husk, as they are more apt 
to be on the outside. In cutting the shocks 
should be rowed both ways as it makes 
it handier when you come to husk. By 
husking three rows together, starting the 
pile on the second row and at the second 
shock from the end you can easily draw 
nine shocks together, making a good-sized 
pile of corn and plenty of fodder to cover 
it well where it is to be loft in the field 
for any length of time. We hired our corn 
cut last season, and paid two cents a shock 
and gave the man his dinner and supper. 
He averaged 110 shocks per day; this I 
consider a very good day’s work, as he did 
his work well, taking the corn up clean, 
setting it up in good shape, and tying his 
shocks tight. Our fodder was a good size 
and tied with twine, using a five-foot 
tarred twine with a stick tied on one end. 
Ohio. a. R. 
Corn in Connecticut.- —I plant corn in 
drills 30 inches apart, level cultivation, 
usually but one hoeing to kill weeds in 
rows, cultivate as needed. When the ma¬ 
jority of ears are glazed cutting begins. 
The ears will mature in shock, and stalks 
are better for feeding than if allowed to 
stand till corn is dend ripe and stalks 
dried. A pole three or four inches dia¬ 
meter at butt, 10 feet long, has two spread¬ 
ing legs about three feet long put in butt 
end and an inch hole bored horizontally 
about two feet back from that end. A piece 
of broom handle is cut about three feet 
long to go through this hole half way. 
Starting between the middle rows of eight 
rows the “horse” is set in about its length, 
the cross stick put in place and the corn 
as fast as cut set up against the "horse” 
each side of this stick till a shock is made 
about the right size to tie near the top. 
Tie, pull out cross stick, draw "horse” 
along far enough for next shock, tin of pole 
behind on ground. Distance of shocks apart, 
of course, depends on the thickness of 
stand of corn and size. As the butts of 
stalks lean out four ways somewhat, the 
shock is so braced that it stands firm. This 
is much better than shocking around a hill 
uncut, which must be inconveniently cut 
when loading. Shock at tie about 15 inches 
diameter. Labor here is $1.50 per day of 
10 hours, or from $15 to $20 per month 
with hoard. An average cut per day per 
man is an unknown quantity. It all de¬ 
pends on the man. The average season 
will ripen flint corn at this altitude, 1,100 
feet, in Litchfield County, Connecticut, in 
90 to 100 days. Carrington phelps. 
Litchfield Co., Cor.n. 
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