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for it throws out a great number of suckers, and to yield 

 a large crop must have room and air. I will send sam- 

 ple bags of this Mammoth Ensilage corn by mail, 

 containing one pound, on receipt of 60 cents ; three 

 pounds, $1.50 ; by express or freight, half a peck, #1.25 ; 

 one peck, $2.00; half a bushel, $3.00; one bushel, 

 $5.00; two bushels or more, $4.00 per bushel. No 

 charge for bags. 



It is a waste of time to plant common sweet corn. 

 None of it is as sweet as this Ensilage corn, nor as 

 nutritious, and it will not yield one-third as much ; be- 

 sides it is much easier to cut up a ton of large stalks than 

 a ton of small ones. It is just as easy to cut with the cut- 

 ter, easier to feed into the cutter, and, when cut, the disks 

 split into small pieces, so that the Ensilage is as fine as 

 if the stalks were small, and packs closer in the Silo. 

 There is every advantage in growing the Mammoth 

 Ensilage corn. 



Now I want to say something about fodder-cutters. 

 We must have a self-feeding machine, which will cut or 

 shred (which would be better, as it would pack closer, 

 thereby excluding the air more completely) at least sixty 

 tons per day without any labor on the part of the men 

 tending it, except that required to throw the fodder in 

 armfuls upon the apron of the machine. 



I think I have found it in Baldwin's Improved Ameri- 

 can fodder-cutter. I shall try it this spring when I 

 Ensilage my rye, and, if satisfactory upon trial, will in a 

 second edition (if one is called for) tell you all about 

 it. One thing I will say now: a cutter which has but one 

 feed-roller will not answer. There must be two rollers, 

 the top one fluted, the bottom roller smooth, between 

 which the fodder must pass. The top roller must be 

 geared to rise and fall, to adjust itself so that a large or 



