. The book of corn; a complete treatise upon the culture, marketing and uses of maize in America and elsewhere, for farmers, dealers, manufacturers and others--a comprehensive manual upon the production, sale, use and commerce of the world's greatest crop . eat silage crop in the United variety with heavy foliage and stalks of medium sizeplanted early in spring is most desirable. This, ifkept clean and well cultivated throughout the season,will yield at the rate of ten to fifteen tons of greenforage per acre. When the plants are fairly well ma-tured, say as the ears are beginning to g
. The book of corn; a complete treatise upon the culture, marketing and uses of maize in America and elsewhere, for farmers, dealers, manufacturers and others--a comprehensive manual upon the production, sale, use and commerce of the world's greatest crop . eat silage crop in the United variety with heavy foliage and stalks of medium sizeplanted early in spring is most desirable. This, ifkept clean and well cultivated throughout the season,will yield at the rate of ten to fifteen tons of greenforage per acre. When the plants are fairly well ma-tured, say as the ears are beginning to glaze, and whenthe indentations are well marked, is considered themost desirable time for cutting. This is usually justafter what is termed the roasting ear stage. Consider-able judgment will be required, even with this in some varieties of corn and during some seasons SILOS i37 maturity is not complete until after that period. Thefarmer will soon learn to judge as to the best time forcutting, remembering always that immature corn usu-ally results in sour silage, while fairly well maturedfodder gives sweet, palatable feed. Where a largeamount of silage is to be handled by a comparativelysmall force of men, it will be necessary to begin cut-. Fig 36—Silo Attached to Barn ting rather early and continue until the crop is past themost desirable stage. According to some Pennsylvania experiments cornrapidly increases in the total quantity of dry matteras it approaches maturity. These particular tests showthat the total amount of digestible matter was much THE BOOK OF CORN greater when nearly mature than when cut earlier, andthat the digestibility decreased at a slower rate than inthe case of other forage crops. The total yield ofdigestible material, for instance, was thirty to thirty-sixper cent greater when the crop was fairly well maturedthan at silking time. When the corn begins to get toodry, the silage may be greatly benefited by the additionof water, either to the cu
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