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On Soiling Cattle, on Broom Corn, and Guinea Corn 
| as Green Food for Cattle. By John Lorain. 
Read, November 13th, 1810. 
Sir, 
On the 20th ultimo I topped one row of corn to as- 
certain how it would bear early cutting, and on the 
31st commenced feeding my cattle with them, and they 
continue to eat every particle with greater avidity than 
any other food; and I think thrive faster than on first 
crop grass: the blades will be given in succession, the 
husks and stalks will remain to be appropriated here- 
after: the former are relished by cattle more than any 
other part of the fodder; the latter weighs rather more 
than all the rest of the plant, and to reduce them to 
good food would be an object of no small considera- 
tion. In the winter of 1808, my cattle eat all the stalks 
I had, after cutting them from two to three inches; but 
then their other provender was bad, and in 1809 when - 
better provision was made for them, they refused the 
stalks cut in the same way although they were better 
saved; this induced me to give over further trial till I 
could fall on some better mode of preserving them 
with a larger share of their juices, by cutting or in 
some other way reducing them much finer without too 
much expense. ‘ 
In your Encyclopedia you mention some gentleman 
who cut them very fine with a very powerful cutting 
box, how this could be effected by manual labour with- 
out costing too much I cannot conceive, I have bruised 
RY 
