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Corn Silage Studies^*

West Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station

Abstract

In our state many farmers are practicing the removal of ears from corn at ensiling time. The practice is to save the ears for feeding as grain and to fill silos with the stover. The stover silage is fed as a wintering feed to beef cattle. In order to give these farmers some first-hand information on this practice, a comparative study of normal silage (ears on), stover silage (ears removed), and ear silage was undertaken in the fall of 1938. This report will cover the results for the years 1938–39 and 1939–40.

Silos, How Filled, and Acre Yields

Two 100-ton silos were used for this study. In the fall of 1938 the silos were filled from a field of Boone County White Corn. In the fall of 1939, Reid's Yellow Dent was used. Each year the corn was in the dent stage at time of filling the silos. As the corn was brought from the field the ears were removed (jerked off—husks and some shanks remaining with the ears) and the stover was used in filling silo A.

^* Published with the approval of the Director, West Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station, as Scientific Paper No. 245.