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Show CORN FODDER FOR FORAGE. It la a common!) -accepted sajlliK that ' Utah Is not a torn toimirj That may be true in the otdlnao no ccpluttnn of the teim but neterthe-tets, neterthe-tets, I tab fnrmets can nnd do pro dure soma reaaonubl) good crops of urn Me hate in mind as wo write the expel It mo of Mr James Darker of nrth Ogden Weber county Mi liar kir la u Vinlcce nnd tame from a gold torn section of New ork State He was determined to grow corn In Utah legardlesa of the generous arttloe of his neighbors thnt "Utah Is not a corn coiintrj ' Mr Barker reasoned that he might produce a strain of corn b carefully selecting the earliest seed each etir that would mature during the short growing Mason In Utah As a result he baa for eight or ten jenrs ptst liartcsted from llfty to clghi bushels of com to the icre This Bounds like nn Iowa com story, but II not The purpose of this article, howeter, Is not to urge the extpnaive eultute of torn as n icreal in Utah, but to point out that corn fodder tnn be at nun here ni successfully and eten with greuter ceitalnty than In any of the so nlled corn Ptntes 11 is a fact not generally appreciated by farmers that fully H per cent of the total titlue nf the corn plant Is In thc foddti not the dry, colorless foi dn left after the grain Is fully rlptned but the folder thu Is made of the coin tut just a the kernel begins to turn from milk to meal Corn that Is tut at this mage will ,ure and the cmi will mature in to the moat nutritious food for animals and especially for d-tliy rows The foddei ut ut Ihe pioper time will be greener than hay and hate fir mure stoma, when cured fcuch fodder run through a tutting box nnd mixed with btan furnishes tery nearly a balanced ration for dairy tons It constitutes nt least g wel-cuiuo wel-cuiuo change fiom lucerne Al "ihe I 11 that 1 rn I JiIm " 1 - 'hi , i,) her t 11 lit 1 fU n ulfcU ' i t t is nc any tj 01 t ho has st.cn In co n withe- nnl pra ti alls burn ill ftotu thc di night thnt freouentlv m s to all the ruin rlmtts In Jul and August In an Irrigated country drilled corn n ill produce as many tons of deslrahle forage per ocre as ctn be obtained from any other rop not eten excepting lucerne Thus It appears that I lah while she Is the em of all Knstern States hecnuso of her great 1 rops of luorne may also compete wi'h the corn States In corn fodder for forage So richly blessed In resources, I'tnh should become Ihe leading dlr State of the I'nlon In proportion to acreage of tillable land |