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SOW corn at successive times, so as to have the fodder in a tender 

 state through the latter part of the season. I have seen no occasion 

 for this course, particularly Avhen the larger varieties are grown. 

 I never found my corn fodder too large or too mature. When the 

 cows hegin to reject the stalks, I practice running the whole through 

 a cutter, and it is then eaten without waste. So for winter food ; 

 the more mature the stalk, the more nutriment it contains, and the 

 easier it is dried. 



I hoped in the outset, to present in this communication, some gen- 

 eral rules for practice, as initiatory to "soiling," as a system to be 

 adopted in our state ; but through a want of time I am obliged to 

 omit yerj much that is relevant to the subject, and must leave it in 

 this unfinished condition. I have no higher ambition than to be 

 identified with the ennobling science and art of earth's culture, and 

 to stand in the working ranks and speak an occasional word, as cir- 

 cumstances may seem to require. With an earnest desire to do good, 

 and with a hope that the present effort will not be wholly in vain, 

 I remain, &c. 



Farm Architecture. 



«» By Wm. D. Dana, Perry. 



Several years ago, I had the privilege of submitting to the Board 

 of Agriculture, a rough outline of what was designed to be an insti- 

 tution to carry out the system of common schools, viz : a free uni- 

 versity of the highest grade, where every child of the State could 

 obtain the most thorough educational training, as free of cost as he 

 now can obtain the rudiments in the free common schools. This 

 plan was thought to be too Utopian for practice, yet I hope the day 

 is not distant, when the principle will be embodied in some such 

 form. 



The subject has been recently presented to my mind, as showing 

 the need of such an institution, in one, and that a humble direction, 

 by observing throughout the State, the want of knowledge and want 

 of taste exhibited in the location and construction of buildings, par- 

 ticularly of farm buildings. 



