VII.] STACKING. 



to be put in competition with the saving of a 

 crop of corn tops. However, after all, I set a 

 great value upon these tops, which 1 shall, ac- 

 cording to the practice in America, reserve to be 

 given to the cattle in the latter part of the win- 

 ter, or early in the spring. Of the stalks I shail 

 speak by-and-bye ; for even these are used, and 

 sometimes sold, as fodder in America. 



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