. Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada. Agriculture -- Canada; Agriculture -- United States; Farm produce -- Canada; Farm produce -- United States. 418 MAIZE MAEh fifty pounds daily may be reg^arded as the maxiraum ration of sWag-Jt for a cow, and this amount is rather more than is usually fed. The writer thinks that a silo filled with fj^ood corn in the month of Sep- teml>er 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
. Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada. Agriculture -- Canada; Agriculture -- United States; Farm produce -- Canada; Farm produce -- United States. 418 MAIZE MAEh fifty pounds daily may be reg^arded as the maxiraum ration of sWag-Jt for a cow, and this amount is rather more than is usually fed. The writer thinks that a silo filled with fj^ood corn in the month of Sep- teml>er 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 pastures (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 aniihals 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 effect on dairying. Popcorn. Zea (Mays) everta. Graminea. Figs. &42, &43. 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 endosperm or horny substance con- tained in the kernels, which in turn contains a lar
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