Show consider drilled corn com to be better for silo except on weedy land drilled corn seems seem to be rather better for silage than lion checked corn the chief addan tagre t a go being that it cuts a little easier with a corn binder it if the ground la Is weedy it may be that the weeds can be kept down fairly well in the drilled corn by the use of a furrow opener on tile the corn planter followed by a rotary hoe or harrow at frequent intervals while 1 e the corn la Is young twenty en ty years of experimenting at the ohio station indicate that on rich land the most food value per acre with corn for silage can be obtained when he five kernels are planted per hill in hills three feet six indies inches spart each way or when the corn Is drilled in lilt a kernel dropped every eight inches of course thick planting of tills this sort makes lots of cubbins nubbins nub bins but live lie pounds of nubbins bubbins have hate just as much fod value as five fe pounds of big purs cars when they are put into the silo at any an rate the ohio experiments in dacate that on rich land the greatest not net fowl fond anlue per acre for silage or corn n fodder can be obtained by de thick planting |