CORN. 45' 



are grown every year. In hot dry summers tlie supply of feed 

 often falls short of the farmer's need. Corn sowed for fodder 

 will supply this want, and if not wanted for soiling or autum- 

 nal use, it is one of the choicest and most nutritious kinds of 

 food for cows, sheep, or other stock in the winter. Twenty- 

 five tons in its green state can be grown on an acre, and about 

 one-fifth of that amount when cured. 



When grown for soiling or early fall feeding, it should be 

 put in at different times, to keep up a succession of green 

 feed. 



White corn grown in the Southern States is used mostly 

 for sowing for fodder, and produces abundantly ; but large 

 kinds of sweet corn produce nearly as large crops, which are 

 much more nutritious, consequently inducing a greater flow 

 of milk and more flesh. 



When fed in a green state, it should be cut when the dew 

 is ofl', and dried twenty-four hours before feeding. When 

 cured for housing, it should be dried about two days, then 

 bound in small bundles near the top of the stalk, and eight or 

 ten of these placed in stacks around a common fence stake 

 driven into the ground, and it will be cured to take to the 

 barn or shed in three or four weeks of good weather. 



It is not likely to be injured by storms if closely packed 

 around the stake, and a sure protection is afforded if covered 

 during wet weather with hay-caps, an article no good farmer 

 can afford to be without. 



The cost of cultivating an acre of corn varies with the 

 season, character of the soil, value of the land, &c. 



I shall take for a basis of cost an acre of land worth seventy- 

 five dollars, and distant one or two miles from a city or large 

 village, and the amount of crop sixty bushels. 



Dr. To plowing, harrowing, and marking, - 14.25 



planting, one and one-half day, - - 2.25 



hoeing, five days' labor, - - 7.50 



• six cords manure, . . - 18.00 



twenty bushels ashes, - - 5.00 



one hundred pounds gypsum, - - .50 



