The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1898-03-06
INQUIRIES AND ANSWERS.


state A8fleuitufAl department. n Af~
nishes Information.
QUESTION. 7 notice what you say in
the February report about making use
Of tie corn stalks, which have been
wasted heretofore. Please give as a lit
tle msHo information on this subject.
After the stalks are shredded how is the
fodder kept, aud what is its feeding
yaiues Can It be fed to farm stock
without using amy other 'roughage,
and is there any trouble IN getting thorn
- eatis
ASswGR After the stalks are shred
ded the fodder may be kept in the barn
or amy dry place, until needed for use,
taking care not to disturb the mass,
for 40 matter how dry it may
scen there is at first sufficient moisture
to cause slight fermentation, and i
the fodder Is disturbed during this fer
mentaton mould 3 apt to appear. Tho
feeding value 81 tHis fodder has been
shown ~ ailysis 70 ~ greater than
cottonseed HAils and nearly equal TO the
best quality 81 timothy hay. At the
Experiment station farm IN this state
this forage has been thoroughly tested.
II has been used there for weeks at a
time a. the only 'roughage' to the
manifest benefit Of the farm animals,
and they eat it readily. On the subject
Of Corn Stalk Hay we copy the fol-
lowing from Bulletin No 80 Of the 0feor-
gia Experiment Station. These bull
ietins are sent free to every farpla
applies for them, aud we would
you to address card to Director
Redding, Experiment, Ca, reque
that your name be put on their maj
list You win then receive all III
eEature q the station, AZ il
Bulletin No "a says;
IN Bulletin No. 80, cont
suits Of Experiments,
made 10 1895, the ate
was especially called
Of the method Of utllizin Slla
for stock food It IS the aii
sol practice iiL the south ~
cure the blades, and bafyest Of
corn, leaving tho entire stalks the
field to prove an almost nnmitigated
nuisance and obstruction ia tse prepare.
ton and cultivation Of the land in the
succeeding crop; ana winter homes and
ALTERNATING retreats for insects that viii
be lvady 70 attack such crops, especially
IL il shall heauother crop Of corn Farm.
ers have habitually considered this large
part Of the crop as Of no practical value.
Indeed, corn stalks, especially Of tho
large types Of corn planted in the south,
are Of little available food value because
q the mechanical ltiQn Even in
the north che elil metda Ing the
stalks CAtoyer' without amy mechani.
cal preparation was but little less waste.
ful and sloyenly than leaving them in
the fields But tho use Of machinery
FOR preparing the the corn stalks, shred.
ding them into coarse hay, is rapidly
extending Anumbor OF very effective
machines may now be had at moderate
prices, that win convert the hard, flinty
stalks into soft, easily masticated sub
stance very similar IN mechanical con.
dition to coarse hay, that is readily
even greedily eaton by horses, mules
aud cattle.
Ia Bulletin No. 30, already referred
to, the whole subject was discussed az
some length, showing By experiments
made and by analysis chat the value Of
the naked stalks that are generally left
in the field, after harvesting the ears,
shucNs and blades, amounts to fully one.
sixth 81 total value Of the cron