Peter Henderson and Co's. American Farmers Manual, 1900 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Peter Henderson and Co's. American Farmers Manual, 1900For green fodder and the silo. Of Japanese Millet several pieces, of an acre or more each, were sown for feeding green or for the silo. The earliest, sown broadcast about the middle of May on rich land, one peck of seed to the acre, averaged about six feet in height, and produced over 15 tons per acre. This was cut from day to day, beginning before the millet had blossomed. Another field of about an acre, sown the last of June, yielded at the rate of rather over 18 tons per acre. Another field, sown July 26th, after a cr0p of hay was removed, yielded about 12 tons per acre. The crop of the two last fields was put into the silo. That cut from day to day, and fed to cows, was much relished. Its superiority to well-eared ¿int corn fodder was very apparent. Cows with both before them always take the millet first: they consume it without waste, while they are apt to leave a art of the stalks of the corn as it approaches maturity. In alternating this ccd with corn fodder, the cows invariably increased in milk when put upon the millet, and fell off when changed to corn.It has been ensiled with soja beans, - about two parts by weight of the millet and one of the beans. This combination makes very superior silage.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.