Show use corn stover for feed when the supply Is short because of the nationwide shortage of roughage farmers can save surplus teed feed such as cornstalks corn stalks with profit to themselves whether they expect to need it or not leafy corn stover of good color has approximately the same feeding value as oat straw according to arthur T semple forage and pasture investigator to in the united states department of agriculture it if properly cured and particularly it if shredded it can be baled and chippel or stored an acre of good corn will produce about a ton of leaves and stalks left in the field an acre of stalks will do well to furnish roughage for one cow for one month but it if cut and shocked and fed from a minger manger the waste Is 13 so much less that the same ton of corn will keep a cow in roughage from three to four months |