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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- Make your garden pay double Use the Planet Jr. Farm and Garden Tools. They save time and labor, take the place of expensive ''help", and prepare for a bigger, better crop. Planet Jrs. do great work—made by a practical farmer and manufacturer. And they last long—made of the finest materials for the purpose, and guaranteed. They pay for themselves over and over again. No. 25 Hill and Drill-Seeder, Double-Wheel Hoe, Cultivator and Plow combines every useful tool in one strong, light, easy-running, simply-adjusted implementopens the furrow, sou's the seed in drills or in hills 4 to 24 inches apart, covers, rolls, and marks out the next row; and does thorough work as a double-wheel hoe, cultivator and plow. Planet Jr. 1 2-tooth Harrow, Cultivator and Pulverizer is a great tool for berry growers and market gardeners—invaluable wherever fine close work is needed. The twelve chisel-shaped teeth leave the ground in the finest condition. Turns hard work for three men into easy and better work for one. Write today for illustrated 1908 catalogue describing our 45 kinds of farm implements including Wheel- Hoes, One-and Two-Horse Cultivators, Harrows, and Orchard and Beet-Cultivators S. L. Allen & Co. Box 1107-X Philadelphia', Pa. P1|£N£T Jr N^ Write For CDEC ggflfl|f Now—Today EST. 1867 „cTYlES ' EIIbE DIIUl\ H/\»jT, Tno INC.1902 ^,22^ niiAKFl rY f \MILY OF ^PJ^C** >$S5wnniaiBffiag> C6 1 M 12 Sent on Trial—Freight Paid e I3&I4' 0-C>00$HKr«HKHXH^^ W. T. HOOD & CO., OLD DOMINION NURSERIES, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL GROWERS Or High Grade Nursery Stock Descriptive catalogue and price list on application. Office: Chamberlayne and Rennle Ave. Nurseries: Henrico and Hanover Counties. ..ELMWOOD NURSERIES.. appl.es, cherries, nectarines, gooseberries, raspberries, ornamentals, —We are Grewera and Offer a Pine Assortment of— PEACHES, PEARS, PLUMS APRICOTS, GRAPE VINES, CURRANTS, STRAWBERRIES, DEWBERRIES, ASPARAGUS, HORSERADISH, SHADE TREES, HEDGE PLANTS. WRITE FOR CATALOGUE. J. B. WATKIN5& BRO ., Midlothian, Va.
1908.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER, 79 ed class room until January 1, 1906, about two and a half months, when it was re-weighed. The Munnikhuysen corn shrank 29 per cent, in weight, and the Learning shrank about 26 per cent. The amount of variation in percentage of moisture which different varieties may contain is shown by the variety tests at the Ohio Station, where, in a five year test, 1892-1896, the average of each variety for the five years varied from 2 per cent, with Dakota Dent to 50 per cent, with Modoc, the air dried weight being taken about April first on the average. In 1903 and 1904, the shrinkage of the varieties at the Ohio Station varied from 14.8 per cent, with the Early Huron Dent to 34.9 per cent, with the Boon County White (Tenn.), and averaged 26.3 per cent. Percentage of shrinkage must not be confused with per cent, of moisture for corn that is air-dried still contains moisture. Hence, in compiaring the data of the Kansas Station with that of the Ohio Station, or M. A. E. S., am allowance must be made for the per cent, of mosture in air-dried corn. From these figures it may be seen that corn may be so immature at husking time that it will shrink onehalf or so that 140 pounds of ear corn are required at husking time to make one bushel or seventy pounds of dry ear corn, or that it may be so well cured that seventy pounds is a bushel of corn. It is advisable to grow varieties of corn that will mature early enough so that seventy-five or eighty pounds at husking time will make a bushel of dry corn. 4. The number of cubic feet to a ton of hay in the mow varies according to the length of time the hay has settled, the depth of the hay in the mow, and the kind and quality of the hay. Alfalfa or prairie hay, which has settled a month, is usually estimated at eight feet cube, or 512 cubic feet. "Where the hay has been stacked six months at seven and a half feet cube or 422 cubic feet, and when stacked a year at seven cube or 343 cubic feet, feet. C. W. NASH. LEGUMINOUS CROP TO SEED AT LAST WORKING OF CORN. Flease tell me if there is any leguminous plant that I can sow at the last working of corn? German clover dies out on my bottom land. F. E. OMOHUNDRO. Westmoreland Co., Va. You can sow hairy vetch or the winter vetch in corn at the last working. If you would apply a ton of lime to the acre to the corn land before planting the corn you would no doubt succeed with the crimson clover. We know of several places where the clover would not hold until the lime had been used, and then it succeeded well.—Ed. Over 105 Years in Business in New Yorh City IMPROVBD SWBBT CORN. TWO GRAND PRIZES Louisiana Purchase Exposition 1904 GOLD MEDAL Paris Exposition 1900 GOLD MEDAL Pan-American Exposition 1901 CATALOGUE and its artistic merit, and the faet*tw n \t th n e „«?. C it?i e ?S^ S f OUB : garden Inn^l nil wi/h«S»^ e laP 8t as8 rtment g-araen of hl annual i ^ M ? eh-class published, seeds of any It Is invaluable either to the amatenr or professional gardener a. a snide to horticulture, and will be found inalterable. Our SEED CATALOGUE, ready January 1 Our BULB CATALOGUE, ready AukuM 15. WE MAIL THEM FREE. J. M. THORBURN (EX CO. (Late of 36 Cortlandt Street.) |33 Barclay Street, through to 38 ParK Place New Yorh „,,..„, . 000000 1 Direct''to You M0 by buying aVe a Kalamazoo e*Ch Saved stove o*mnge &om te on & 360 DAYS APPROVAL nsfc You eaveall dealers' profits. We pay the freight. Send Postal For Catalog No. 400 and see Hst of towns where we have satisfied customers. Kalamazoo Stove Company, Mfrs., Kalamazoo. Mich. Out p«tent Oreo Ul«nnoiMt«rm»ia« bakins TELL, THE ADVERTISER WHERE YOU SAW HIS ADVERTISEMENT. '
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