Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1912 — Would Make Good Ensilage. [ARTICLE]

Would Make Good Ensilage.

C. L. Parks of near Surrey brought in a couple of ears of corn Saturday, the seed of which he brought with him from Tennessee on his retrun from there last spring. This corn, he thinks, would be excellent to plant for ensilage, as it does not iripen here ,the season being too short. It grows tall and has nice large ears. It is a much better corn to plant for ensilage, Mr. Parks thinks, than the regular field corr. raised here. He also brought in several pods of the cow peas or beans grown in Tennessee for feed, the seed .. of which he also brought from there. These got ripe. The peas or beans, rather, are about half the size of the ordinary navy bean, and the pods are about six inches in length. - They are used extensively for cattle feeding in. the south, either cut up for hay or allowed to ripen and the beans threshed and ground into feed. ■