New York AGricuLTuRAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 323 
This table includes hay from the orchard and 2} acres of corn 
and fodder on the plats; other plat crops, apples and garden 
crops are not included. 
The corn on plats and main cornfield was cut and shocked 
between September 20 and 24. A small, irregular field planted 
June 6 was left until October and was cut up just in season to 
escape the heavy frost of the 10th. This corn had been slightly 
frosted, but is believed to have gained more than enough in 
maturity to offset the slight damage to stover from the frost. 
The only dry month was July, and the drought came on in 
season to catch the potato crop, which suffered also from the 
depredations of the Colorado beetle and the cucumber flea 
beetle. | 
The late summer and early fall was so cloudy and wet that late 
crops were slow in coming to maturity, while great difficulty was 
experienced in securing them owing to the dull weather. Of all 
crops the hay crop was most favored; the cool, wet weather in 
spring fostered the growth of grass, while the dry weather later 
served well for its harvest in good condition. 
ForRAGE CROPS. 
Zea mays, Indian Corn, Maize. 
This is our standard forage crop. It is better known and more 
widely cultivated than any other. The variety grown especially 
for forage this year on the farm.and plats is known as the B. & W., 
from Burrell & Whitman, of Little Falls, N. Y., who have introduced 
it from the south, where the seed is produced. 
The method of planting was as follows: A good seed bed was 
prepared. All the tubes of the eight-tubed Empire State Seed 
Drill except two were closed. These two were the second from 
each end, or the second and seventh from one end. The drill was 
then set to sow two bushels per acre, but actually delivered con- 
siderable less, about twelve quarts from the two tubes, but this 
was rather too much seed, as the stalks were too thick for all to 
set ears. Most of that on the plats produced ears and reached 
the milk stage of growth. That in the field did not develop so 
evenly, and comparatively few ears were in the milk stage when 
the corn was cut. 
