. Cyclopedia of farm crops. Farm produce; Agriculture. 418 MAIZE HAKb fifty pounds daily may be regarded as the maximum ration of silags for a cow, and this amount is rather more than is usually fed. The writer thinks that a silo filled with good corn in the month of Sep- tember offers by far the most satisfactory solution of the problem of feeding a cow during the months of summer drought. If the dairyman has in mind some summer feeding to supplement the (and he should expect to do this to some extent), he will need about five tons of silo capacity for each cow. The tables of capaci
. Cyclopedia of farm crops. Farm produce; Agriculture. 418 MAIZE HAKb fifty pounds daily may be regarded as the maximum ration of silags for a cow, and this amount is rather more than is usually fed. The writer thinks that a silo filled with good corn in the month of Sep- tember offers by far the most satisfactory solution of the problem of feeding a cow during the months of summer drought. If the dairyman has in mind some summer feeding to supplement the (and he should expect to do this to some extent), he will need about five tons of silo capacity for each cow. The tables of capacity provided by manufacturers are fairly dependable. Under ordi- nary field conditions, the yield of silage will range from eight to twenty tons per acre. Silage may make up the larger part of the roughage, but some hay should be provided in addition. It is now an established fact that liberal rations of good silage are not incompatible with the health of the herd and with milk of the very highest standard of purity and flavor. It is not easy to over-emphasize the usefulness, not to say the virtual necessity, of the silo in successful dairying. Its greatest advan- tage in feeding lies not in the fact that animals do better on silage than on dry corn fodder, but more especially in the saving of labor. The silo ranks with the centrifugal separator in its efl:ect on dairying. Popcorn. Zea {Mays) everta. Graminem. Figs. 642, 643. By J. G. Curtis. The popcorns are a special group of flint corns used for " popping," as the name suggests, for eat- ing out of hand or in confections. They are char- acterized by the small size of the kernels and their excessive hardness, and by the excessive proportion of the corneous or horny substance con- tained in the kernels, which in turn contains a large percentage of moisture and gives the kernels the property of popping or turning almost com- pletely inside out on the application of heat. In structure and composition popcorn
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