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leaves are dry, because water can be run into the silage as the silo 
is being filled. 
. A home-made cutter saving all the corn crop in a dry year 
If cut for fodder, it should be cut at about the same time as 
for silage and put at once into shocks. As soon as cured it 
should be taken in from the field and stacked in order to reduce 
the waste from the dry, high winds of winter to as low a minimum 
as possible. With the silo, it is possible to save 90 to 95 percent 
of all of the feed produced in the field. With the best methods 
of dry fodder making, not over 70 percent will be saved, and 
there will be a great deal more waste in feeding, as the animals 
will not eat it up nearly so completely. Often, where the crop 
is harvested by cutting and shocking, weather conditions will be 
such that as much as 80 percent may be lost, altogether too high 
a loss to be permitted where forage is as scarce as it is upon the 
ordinary plains farm. 
Seed corn should be selected in the field at about the time the 
corn is ready to cut for fodder or silage. Only in a few sections 
will it be desirable to harvest corn for grain, and in those sections 
it will frequently be the best policy to get the grain by thrashing 
out well-cured fodder which has been cut at the proper time. 
SORGHUMS 
Two kinds of sorghums are commonly grown. Both have 
about equal resistance to dry weather and drouthy conditions. 
These are forage, or saccharine sorghums, and grain, or nonsac¬ 
charine sorghums. The latter are distinguished from the sacchar¬ 
ine sorghums in that the juices are not sweet. They are ordinar¬ 
ily called grain sorghums because they produce heavy yields of 
