Excerpt from The U. T. Farmer, Vol. 10

At this season everyone has his eyes turned toward the silage crops, and is studying whether the yield will be sufficient for the herd, or the herd large enough for the yield. No matter what the figures on the present crop show, the question still remains, could a greater yield have been made on this same area without extra labor if a different rate or combination of seeding had been employed?

For the last three years, the East Tennessee Experiment Station has been carrying on valuable tests along this line. Eight one-acre plots are used in these tests, and different rates and combinations of seeding are put on each plot. The purpose of these experiments is to determine which amount and combination of seed sown furnishes the best silage with the greatest yield.

For the present year these experimental silage crops occupy section 6. This section was in red clover and vetch last year and this past June had a hay crop removed. June 12-18, 1915, the land was broken with a subsoiler, after which the ground was thoroughly disked twice and the rough parts three times. June 24-25 the plots were laid out and seeded as follows:

Acre No. 1 -

16 lbs. Corn

10 lbs. Sorghum

35 lbs. Cow Peas

Acre No. 2 -

5 lbs. Corn

5 lbs. Sorghum

30 lbs. Cow Peas

Acre No. 3 -

10 lbs. Corn

10 lbs. Sorghum

35 lbs. Soy Beans

Acre No. 4 -

5 lbs. Corn

5 lbs. Sorghum

30 lbs. Soy Beans

Acre No. 5 -

5? lbs. Sorghum

Acre No. 6 -

10 lbs. Sorghum

Acre No. 7 -

10 lbs. Corn

Acre No. 8 -

20 lbs. Corn

The first cultivation was given July 14; the second, July 24; and on August 9, it was stirred with a "Gee Whiz" cultivator.

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