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inches apart, upon inverted sod, thorouglily manured ; 

 to insure successive supplies, the sowing should be 

 repeated at intervals of a month, from the twentieth 

 of April to the twentieth of July. A later sow 

 ing than this last, will expose the blades to early 

 frosts. 



The amount of green food which can be cut from 

 an acre of well-grown corn is immense ; but let no 

 one hope for successful results, without a most 

 ample supply of manure, and clean land. The prac 

 tice has fallen into disfavor with many, from the 

 fact that they have given all their best fertilizers to 

 other crops, and then made the experiment of grow 

 ing corn-fodder with a flimsy dressing, and no care. 

 They deserved to fail. It is to be observed more 

 over, that as the crop matures no seed, it makes 

 little drain upon the mineral wealth of the land, and 

 can be^ folio wed by any of the cereals. This suggests 

 a simple and short rotation : First, corn grown for its 

 blades and stalks only (the first cuttings being suc 

 ceeded by turnips) : Second, carrots, Mangel, or pota 

 toes : Third, oats or other cereal : and Fourth, clover 

 with grass seeds, to be mown so long as the interests 

 of the dairy or the land may demand. 



A professed grain-grower, or an English farmer, 

 would smile at such an unstudied rotation ; but I 

 name it in all confidence, as one adapted to dairy 



