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a chimney for the escape of moisture and heated air. 



The stacks should be made narrow and tall, and 

 each one should not contain more than a ton — ^better 

 much less — and allowed to remain in field until 

 thoroughly cured. 



Mr. W. Crozier, Beacon Stock Farm, one of the 

 most successful cultivators of corn fodder perhaps in 

 the country, not only gives it a rich field, but man- 

 ures heavily in ploughed furrows, sowing drills a 

 foot in breadth over the manure. He uses seed of 

 large varieties, cultivates well, and secures enormous 

 crops. The seed may be sown from a basket on the 

 manure, covered by ridging with a plough, and then 

 harrowing down lengthwise, so that the corn will 

 have but two or three inches of covering. 



He cuts as soon as the edges of the leaves begin to 

 wither, puts up in stacks well secured at the tops, 

 which are allowed to remain in the field as late in 

 Autumn as will be quite safe from the weather, or 

 till a suitable opportunity occurs for drawing into 

 stackyard. 



A cheap and substantial platform is made of poles, 

 surported by sleepers on short posts. On this plat- 

 form of poles the fodder is stacked when drawn, and 

 additional ventilation is secured by making venti- 

 lating chimneys at intervals, by means ot barrels 

 furnished with a handle or cross-rope, by which they 

 are drawn upwards as the stack is built. Fodder 

 thus secured becomes well dried, and proves of great 

 value. 



Corn for fodder may be sown from the first of May 

 till the middle of July. The later the sowing the 

 earlier must be the corn used. The essential points 

 in raising good corn fodder are — 1st. Rich, warm, 



