Corn and Sunflowers Used in Experiment
The agricultural Experiment Station of the University of Idaho is now harvesting the best silage crop in the history of the institution, consisting of corn and Giant Russian variety, but other varieties are being tested with the purpose of determining those best adapted to silage production in Idaho. Tests have been made in addition with rate and method of seeding sunflowers.
The corn is now nearly all in the silos owned by the University and has yielded not far from ten tons per acre, an excellent yield for many years.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1980.
Irrigated conditions such as prevail in Latah County where the State University Farm is located. The Idaho Agricultural Experiment Station, for the purpose of getting data average for Idaho conditions is growing corn at four other points in the state, namely: Sandpoint, Caldwell, Aberdeen, and Felt.
The sunflowers grown at Moscow this year will yield somewhat more than the corn and will be siloed for feeding to beef and dairy cattle. Some comparative tests will be conducted to determine the value of sunflowers for livestock feeding as compared with silage made from Indian corn.
JERSEY OFFICIAL RECORDS COMPLETED
The American Jersey Cattle Club has recently announced the following completed Register of Merit records for Jersey cows owned in the State of Idaho:
Oxford Lida, 449391, owned by C. Y. Cannon, Boise, Idaho, produced 6604.6 lbs, of milk and 346.08 lbs. of butter fat, average test 6.16 percent in one year, freshening.  At two years, eleven months. This record places her second among senior two-year-olds in Idaho. 