. Profitable stock feeding; a book for the farmer . ages. When the corn isfully tasseled it contains but eight-tenths t)f a ton ofdry matter per acre, or only one-fifth what it containswhen fully ripe. When in the milk it contains nearlythree times as much dry matter as when fully seventeen days were occupied in passing fromthe milk to the glazing stage, yet in this time there wasan increase in the dry matter of tons per acre. Thisshows the great advantage of letting the corn standuntil the kernels are glazed. After this period theincrease in dry matter is but slight. Time to
. Profitable stock feeding; a book for the farmer . ages. When the corn isfully tasseled it contains but eight-tenths t)f a ton ofdry matter per acre, or only one-fifth what it containswhen fully ripe. When in the milk it contains nearlythree times as much dry matter as when fully seventeen days were occupied in passing fromthe milk to the glazing stage, yet in this time there wasan increase in the dry matter of tons per acre. Thisshows the great advantage of letting the corn standuntil the kernels are glazed. After this period theincrease in dry matter is but slight. Time to Harvest.—To have the silage keep wellthe corn must be cut at the proper stage of cut before it is sufficiently matured, too much aciddevelops. If too ripe it does not settle properly andthe air is not sufficiently excluded to prevent spoiling. Corn should not be cut until the ears are out of themilk and most of the kernels glazed and hard. EarNo. I is in the soft dough stage; No. 2 is beginning to WINTER RATIONS IN THE CORN BELT. 71. y2 PROFITABLE STOCK FEEDING. dent; No. 3 is nearly all dented, but a few kernels arestill in the milk ; No. 4 shows all the kernels corn is put into the silo it should usually be asripe as ears Nos. 3 and 4. In case the weather has beenso hot and dry that the lower leaves have fired, thecorn should be cut before the ears are quite so far ad-vanced. Much riper corn will keep at the bottom ofthe silo than at the top because of the greater pressurewhich excludes the air more completely. It is, there-fore, impbrtant that the ripest corn be cut first andplaced in the bottom of the silo. Method of Harvesting.—The corn should be cutwith a corn binder, as it is much more easily handledwhen bound in bundles. If the silage cutter is large andthe work is pushed with a good force of men, the cornbinder should have a start of half a day. If enoughhorses are used on the binder to keep it moving at agood pace the corn can usually be c
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