Indian Corn Volume 147-158 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ... Such a rotation would include grasses and the perennial legumes as well as the use of annual legumes and catch crops. The value of the crops as given in table XIV are not designed to show the relative profits secured in carrying out the different rotation plans. On account of the cheaper cost of production, some of the crops which are relatively low in value may be the more profitable for the farmer to raise. SHRINKAGE OF CORN IN THE CRIB Experiments were begun in 1903 to determine the shrinkage of corn after it was cribbed in the fall. Three small board cribs of suflicient capacity to hold about four thousand pounds each of ear corn have been filled each year at husking time as follows: Crib No. 1, white dent corn; crib No. 2, yellow dent corn; and crib No. See Station Bulletin No. 144. 3, mixed corn, namely, small amounts of corn of different varieties. The cribs were lined with fine wire netting to keep out the mice. A fourth crib was not filled with corn, but was weighed each time that the filled cribs were weighed as a check to determine the gain or loss in weight of the empty cribs. The gain or loss in weight of the check crib was added to or subtracted from the weights of each of the other cribs in securing the net weights of corn at each weighing. The average weight of the empty crib was about 410 pounds, but the cribs have usually gained in weight PLATE IX.--Experimental cribs (the cribs rest on a platform under an open shed). during the winter and spring, varying sometimes as much as ten per cent from the normal or lowest weight. The corn has been husked each fall when it was dry and in good condition to crib. The plan has been to fill all the cribs as nearly at the same date as possible, the first weights being taken as soon as all the cribs wer...