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ed and measured the progress of the Indian 

 corn plants, and found in the very hottest 

 weather that they make shoots of three and 

 four inches in twenty-four hours. 



Indian corn ground into meal and mixed 

 with cut clover-hay, is used for stall-feeding cat- 

 tle, and I understand with great efficacy. The 

 cultivation of that corn supersedes here the use 

 of green crops as food for stock ; but it seems 

 a question meriting the consideration of the 

 American farmer whether the culture of tur- 

 nips, and also of potatoes more extensively 

 than is practised both, of course, being stor- 

 ed before winter should not be adopted as fa- 

 cilitating the means of converting straw into 

 manure. 



Not having had experience of an American 

 winter, I may not presume to determine whe- 

 ther stock may here be kept loose in a yard 

 communicating with open sheds, and there sup- 

 plied with turnips, or potatoes, or other green 

 food, and with plenty of fodder and litter, ac- 

 cording to what in Scotland is practised with 

 great advantage j but if this may be done, and 



