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look after his stock, attend to the garden, and live the 

 life .an American farmer ought to live. A boy and a 

 pair of horses with the Thomas smoothing-harrow one 

 day in a week will keep the corn free from weeds, 

 the soil completely pulverized, inducing absorption and 

 preventing evaporation, until the corn is a foot high. 

 Then, when it is about waist high, he will want one 

 of Timothy B. Hussey's Centennial improved horse- 

 hoes. With it he can hoe five to seven acres a day 

 better than it can possibly be done by hand, killing and 

 burying up every weed, and throwing just earth enough 

 around the stalks to strengthen them and prevent the 

 wind from breaking them over. Corn is growing very 

 rapidly now, and is very tender, and I think is better for 

 a little hilling. By the way, let me say here that I have 

 a quantity of seed-corn expressly raised for me for 

 Ensilage. I tested it last year on a small scale. I had 

 single stalks which before the tassel was in sight weighed 

 nine pounds ; others when fully grown with the grain in 

 the milk weighed over 15 pounds each. I can safely 

 guarantee this corn if planted upon good corn land, in 

 good condition well manured, with proper cultivation to 

 produce from 40 to 75 tons to the acre of green fodder 

 just right for Ensilage. The stalk is extremely sweet 

 and succulent ; some of them being over six inches in 

 circumference and 14 feet high, with an immense amount 

 of long, broad leaves, some of which measured four feet 

 ten inches in length, and 61 inches in width. It will not 

 require more than half a bushel to plant an acre (of other 

 kinds one bushel is needed) ; so that, although it is some- 

 what high-priced by the pound or bushel, it does not cost 

 so very much more by the acre. It should be planted in 

 drills four feet apart, with the stalks six to eight inches 

 apart in the rows. Be sure and not get it too thick, 



