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fodder to my cows. I intend to plant more this year, and as 

 my friend has proposed Hungarian, I will say sweet corn. I 

 think if he will try it, he will like it. It can be used green 

 or cured. It will cure better than the old-fashioned corn. I 

 consi<ier it worth double the amount of Southern corn. My 

 manner of cultivating is as follows : I prepare the ground and 

 put on the manure in the fall. I take a harrow and run it 

 lengthwise twice and then spread the manure lengthwise in 

 the row and mix the soil with it pretty thoroughly. After 

 soaking the corn twenty-four hours, I sow it in rows, not so 

 thick as one would sow the Southern corn, about a bushel to 

 the acre. After the corn is up ready to hoe, I run a cultiva- 

 tor through it ; and I have gone through with a hoe. I do 

 not feed it until the ears are pretty well formed. The cattle 

 like it well. I have some dried. I tried it first as an exper- 

 iment. I have tried common field corn, and I find cattle can 

 tell the difierence between sweet corn and the other pretty 

 quick. I think some cattle have very good judgment in re- 

 gard to what they eat. I do not think it is as good for horses, 

 but for cows it will make more butter than English hay. 



Mr. KJEYES. In regard to raising sweet corn for fodder, 

 my idea is that it is as good as English hay, Avhether you have 

 a horse or not. We sow a great deal of it in Franklin county. 

 I fully believe in it as a feed for cows. Sweet corn planted 

 early is not so apt to do well as that planted a little later. It 

 wants warm ground. My way of planting perhaps varies a 

 little from the course pursued by others. If I was planting 

 for fodder, I should put it in hills about one foot and one-half 

 apart, and from t6n to fifteen kernels in a hill. We want 

 something to feed our cows after the frost comes. This fod- 

 der, cured, is a very good feed, perhaps not so good as when 

 green, but it is better than anything I have ever had, and I 

 think very highly of it. 



The Chairman. I have raised considerable sweet corn for 

 canning, and I got the idea that it was good for cows for milk, 

 and have gone to raising it. It does well with old manure, 

 the richer the better. 



