Show Consider Drilled Corn to Be Better for Silo Except on weedy land drilled corn seems to be rather better for silage than checked corn the chief advantage advantage advantage tage being that it cuts a little easier with a corn binder If It the ground 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 the corn planter followed by a rotary hoe or harrow at frequent intervals while the corn is young Twenty years of experimenting at atthe atthe atthe the Ohio station indicate that on rich richland richland richland land the most food value per acre with corn for silage can be obtained when five kernels are planted per hill bill In hills three feet six Inches apart each way or when the corn is drilled in with a kernel dropped every eight Inches Of Ot course thick planting of ot thIs tills sort makes lots of nubbins but five pounds of nubbins have Just as much food value alue as five pounds of big ears when they are put Into the silo At any rate the Ohio experiments Indicate indicate indicate in In- that on rich land the greatest net food value per acre for silage or corn fodder can be obtained by decidedly decidedly decidedly de de- thick planting |