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78 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [January,
ENQUIRERS' COLUMN.
All enquiries must reach us by the
15th of the month previous to the
issue, or they cannot be answered
until the month following.
MEASURING CORN IN CRIB-
SHRINKAGE OF CORN—WEIGHT
OF HAY IN MOW.
1. How many cubic feet to a barrel
of cob-corn in a crib?
2. How much does corn dry out?
3. What is the weight of a barrel
of corn when husked? When dried?
4. How many cubic feet of hay in
a mow (each kind) after well settled
to the ton? M. A. C.
Fallston, Md.
1. A barrel of ear corn, by measure,
Is ten level bushel basketfuls and occupies
twelve and a half cubic feet
of space. An easy method of determining
the barrel content of a crib is
to multiply the cubical contents In
feet by eight and point off two decimal
places.
2. The amount of corn dried out
and the weight of a barrel of corn at
husking time depends upon how much
moisture the corn contains. The
weight of a barrel of dry corn, according
to the Maryland Statutes, is 350
pounds of ear corn, or 280 pounds of
Bhelled corn. When the corn is not
dry, that is, when it contains more
than 15 per cent', of moisture, enough
weight should be taken to make a
barrel of dry corn, the amount ranging
with the percentage of mohrture
contained. The amount of moisture
in corn at the time of husking depends
upon the earliness of the variety,
the wetness of the season, and the
length of time allowed for the com
to cure before husking.
3. At the Kansas Station the percentage
of moisture in the corn of the
variety test plot varied with different
varieties greatly: In 1904, from 11.90
per cent, to 29.02 per cent; in 1905,
from 11.66 per cent, to 21.86 per cent.;
and in 1906, from 10.73 per cent, to
19.43 per cent. The corn was not cut
until the ears were in a hard dent and
then remained a couple of months
in the shock before it was husked, so
that it was fairly well dried out. The
average per cent, of moisture was
found to be about 15 per cent. The
per cent, in samples of their white
corn, Forsythe Favorite, one year
after husking, was 12.05 per cent.
Conditions in Kansas are more
favorable to well-cured corn than are
the conditions in Maryland, for we
usually have much more moisture,
and, furthermore, corn is cut greener
and not left so long in the shock as
it was at the Kansas Station; hence,
especially in late, wet seasons like
this one, there is a much larger per
cent, of moisture. ,
In the fall of 1905 corn from the
ear row test plots of the Maryland
Agricultural Experiment Station was
weighed when husked and then was
stored in corn racks in a steam heat-
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