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erly treated, with what results from the milk fed the pigs, will 

 make two cords of first class dressing. Six cords of such dress- 

 ing is sufficient to fertilize an acre for sweet corn if the land is 

 not too much run out. An acre of corn will yield, on an average, 

 forty dollars worth of ears and nine tons of silage. A cow will 

 eat about sixty pounds of silage per day, hence the nine tons 

 will feed one and one-half cows 200 days. The same amount 

 of land sown to oats and peas will yield two and one-quarter 

 tons, of which a cow will eat fourteen pounds per day, hence it 

 will feed one and one-half cows 200 days and have 300 pounds 

 to spare. The same acre of land will produce one and three- 

 quarters tons of clover, of which the cow will eat sixteen pounds 

 per day, thus feeding one cow 200 days and leaving 300 pounds 

 to spare. The money received for sweet corn at the factory, 

 forty dollars, will buy sufficient provender for the four cows, 

 fed as they have been on coarse fodder. Now you see that three 

 cows have produced enough on three acres to keep four cows 

 200 days, the average length of our winters, with 600 pounds to 

 spare, a gain of thirty-three per cent. We raised enough on 

 thirty acres to winter forty cows. Where there is'a corn factory, 

 I think it is much more profitable to raise sweet corn, sell the 

 ears and buy protein feeds than to grow a larger variety of corn 

 and put it all in the silo. 



These are no fancy pictures, but what we have done on our 

 farm. Many others have done as well and some a great deal 

 better. Mr. A. W. Cheever of the New England Farmer told 

 me he had grown fodder enough on twenty-five acres of land 

 to feed twenty-six head of cattle the entire year. They were 

 not all full grown cattle, but the most of them were. 



I have spoken of only three crops, corn, oats and peas, and 

 clover. There are other profitable crops for the dairyman to 

 raise. The millets, Hungarian and Japanese, are excellent milk 

 producing feeds. The former makes very nice hay and is as 

 easily cured as our common grasses. They are both hot weather 

 plants and should not be sown until from the first of June to the 

 middle of July. The Japanese millet is a ranker grower and is 

 not so easily cured, but is an extra soiling crop. It will grow 

 from five to seven feet high where the ground is rich, and two 

 crops a year can be grown if it gets started the first of June. 



