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shelled corn to the acre than the flint corns, but the latter 
ripened the earlier. In most parts of Colorado where corn can 
be raised at all, the smaller dents are probably best for ear corn. 
Attention should be called, however, to the Wills’ 70-Day 
Gehu, for this grew so rapidly and ripened so quickly that 
it seems adapted to many parts of Colorado that are 
considered too cold for corn growing. It did not ripen in 
seventy days, as its name would indicate, and probably would 
not do so anywhere in this latitude, but it was ripe long 
before the first light frosts. It is so small that the hills can 
be planted near together, even thirty inches apart, and still 
not be crowded. This distance gives twice as many hills to 
the acre as the ordinary planting of forty-two inches each 
way. Next to the Wills’ 70-Day Gehu in earliness, come 
the King Philip, and the Minnesota King. The latter corn 
shows considerable promise. 
ENSILAGE AND THE SILO. 
The preservation of green corn by means of the silo has 
attracted but little attention in Colorado, and yet there is no 
part of the United States better adapted naturally for its use. 
The expense of the silo, and labor of filling it, have been the 
great objections urged against it. Incidentally it has also 
been claimed that the large corn generally used for ensilage 
could not be grown in Colorado. Most writers have put the 
cost of building a silo at $2 for each ton capacity. This is on 
the supposition that it is made above ground with double 
walls to keep out the frost, and a roof to ward off rain and 
snow. The climatic conditions of Colorado enable a much 
simpler and cheaper silo to be made and used. 
A silo was built on the College Farm the past season to 
ascertain how cheaply one could be made, and whether such 
a cheap affair would answer equally as well as the more 
expensive for the preservation and feeding of ensilage. 
Silos in the East are not built below ground because 
during half the year the ground is saturated with water. No 
such trouble need interfere with the Colorado farmer. There 
are many places where a hole eight to twelve feet deep would 
remain dry the whole year, and such a spot on the College 
Farm was selected for the silo. It is on a slight slope, and a 
hole twenty-one feet square and eight feet deep, w^as dug out 
with the plow and scraper. The only hand work necessary 
