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water down below. I do not allow a day to go over them 

 without their being thoroughly carded. I think in that way 

 I get a better and cheaper result than I should if I did not 

 cut my feed. I do not think anybody can raise corn unless 

 he has a stock of milch cows to feed it to. 



This year I am trying an experiment with sweet corn. I 

 planted seven acres the 25th of June. That corn ripened 

 up well. I cut it up the day before frost came, and got it in. 

 I do not know whether that will carry me through any better 

 than the other, or not ; but there is this about it, that, if you 

 dry corn-fodder too much, I don't think cattle will eat it 

 quite so well as they will if you don't get it too dry. I don't 

 care whether my corn-fodder comes out a little colored or 

 not. The corn-fodder I am feeding now I took in earlier 

 than I wanted to, and put on salt. It is not black, but it 

 is discolored and moist ; but my cattle are eating it as well 

 as I ever knew them to eat any fodder before. I think a little 

 mould — not, the white mould, but a little black mould — 

 does not injure corn-fodder at all. Cattle eat it just as well. 



There, is another thing which the doctor says, which would 

 lead people to think differently from what I think. He says 

 he does not care how deep he ploughs for grass, after he has 

 got his corn-crop, for which he ploughs shallow. Now, I do 

 not think that grass-roots (with the exception of witch-grass) 

 go any deeper than corn-roots. They run as near the top of 

 the ground, and take their nourishment as near the top of 

 the ground, as corn ; and therefore I do not see the necessity 

 for deep ploughing. Aside from this, with the exception of 

 planting his corn so thick, I should agree with Dr. Sturte- 

 vant. 



Question. How do you cut your corn-fodder? 



]Mr. Emery. I cut it by a hand-machine. 



Mr. CusHiNG. I have been feeding from twenty-five to 

 thirty tons of corn-fodder every winter for the past four or 

 five years; and it has been a great question in my mind, 

 whether I could afford to go into the experiment I hear 

 recommended of cutting and steaming my corn-fodder. The 

 gentleman last up is of opinion that he receives twenty-five 

 per cent better results by cutting it fine than by feeding 

 it whole. I have been feeding twenty-five head of cattle 

 thus far this winter, — two feedings a day of corn-fodder, and 



