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to have it wilt.~ I cut close to the ground, and my cattle leave no orts. In this way I 
am enabled to retain my usual quantéty of milk, and, I think, improve the condition of 
my herd, when my feed in the pasture is rapidly decreasing, and I know of no other 
way in which the same results can be obtained at the same cost. 
Mr. Levi Bartlett, of Warner, New Hampshire, thinks there is small 
nutritive value in very late, thickly planted, and therefore colorless and 
immature corn-fodder. He recommends sweet corn for soiling purposes, 
fed when the ears are fairly formed. 
Mr. Nathaniel Dwight, of Belchertown, Massachusetts, says the prac- 
tice of feeding green corn is deemed remunerative in his seetion. It is 
sown broadcast. : 
Mr. ©. H. Wolford, of Corry, Pennsylvania, thinks green corn fed to 
milch cows will pay only in places where grass is liable to dry up, when 
the green fodder will prove a good substitute. He thinks that when corn’ 
is fed to cows it injures the quality of the milk; and says they will not 
keep up the flow of milk after the corn is fed out, and they will not 
gather the grass they would if they had not had the fodder.* 
Mr. John Satterthwait, of Bordentown, New Jersey, has a dairy of 
twenty-four cows, and sells his milk. He sows corn in drills two and one- 
half feet apart, eight to twelve stalks to the foot, about the middle of May, 
‘and evéry two weeks thereafter, as long as there remains a probability 
of its coming te maturity; feeds it “when in the milk state.” He states, 
as his experience last year, that he began to feed it July 15, when it was 
about four feet high, and when the cowshad begun to shrink six to ten 
quarts per day. As soon as he began to feed the green corn they gained 
twenty quarts per day, and continued the same flow of milk all summer. 
They were fed through the summer twice a day, night and morning, 
after milking, and always fresh cut. They did not eat wilted fodder so 
eagerly. Three acres of green corn were fed out before the last of Sep- 
tember, when they fell from one hundred and twenty quarts per day to 
eighty quarts. Some of the cows were fresh and others nearly dry. He 
considered the three acres of corn equivalent to twelve acres of good 
clover pasture. There was no perceptible gain in flesh until the corn 
began to ear, when the increase was very noticeable. The cows contin- 
ued in fine order all summer, notwithstanding the dry weather and. 
scareity of succulent pasture. 
Mr. Anson Bartlett, of North Madison, Ohio, a dairyman of long expe- 
rience, and a cheese manufacturer well known throughout the country, 
shows how he obtained $50 for an acre of corn-fodder, in inereased 
quantities of butter and cheese, when the former was worth but 124 
cents and the latter 54 cents per pound: . 
In the summer of 1852 I tried my first experiment with green corn-fodder for mileh 
cows. I putin just an acre; marked off the rows two feet apart, and planted the 
corn in hills ten inches apart In the rows, putting from ten to fifteen kernels in a hill. 
It was cultivated by running a common shovel-plow once between the rows; it made 
a heavy growth, (being on strong, rich land,) so heavy, indeed, that much of it fell 
down before it was cut. 
At that time I was milking thirty-three cows; a neighbor, whose farm was adjoin- 
ing, (the two being very much alike in all respects,) also had thirty-three, and up to 
the Ist of August the product of the two dairies bad been very nearly equal; in fact, 
his was a trifle ahead, but at that time feed in the pastures began to fail, and the cows, 
of course, gave a diminished quantity of milk. I then commenced cutting and feed- 
ing my corn-fodder, what few small ears there were on it being just full in the milk. 
My neighbor before mentioned had no corn-fodder to cut, and, of course, his cows. 
had no feed except what they obtained in their ordinary pasture range. I used my 
* Tf cows fail to gather grass as well, it isan indication that they prefer corn-fodder : 
iBo i they give less milk, it attests the milk-producing capability of corn-fodder.— 
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