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Getting Most Out of
Bountiful Corn Crop
By W. H. Lyne,
Extension Agent, Agric.
Contrary to recent years Rappahannock farmers now have corn running out of their ears! How can they get the most out of it? Harvesting and feeding it as ensilage will be, a profitable approach and there are wayj of storing extra silage even though the present crop will far more than fill the silos available. To get high grain silage at the lowest_ possible cost per 100 lbs. digestible nutrients, harvest for ensilage in the hard dough stage. Corn is at this stage of maturity when the shuck and lower leaves are brown and you can still dent the grains with your thumb nail. Apply urea @ 10 lbs. per ton. If you can’t weigh 2 or 3 wagons or truck loads, estimate the weight on the basis of 20 lbs. silage per cubic foot of unsettled silage in the wagon. For upright silos, sprinkle the proper amount of urea (as shown above) for the load uniformly over the top of the loads. By the time the silage is conveyed into the blower, blown in the silo, and fed out later, the urea should be thoroughly mixed. Be sure that no lumps or handfuls of urea get into the manger at feeding time. Even distribution of urea for any type of horizontal silo will be more difficult, how
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