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twenty-seven thousand pounds of cured stover are 

 stated to have been produced on a single acre. 



As a green fodder crop, raised for soiling cattle 

 during summer and autumn , the weight of this sto- 

 ver per acre is still more remarkable. A writer in 

 the Country Gentleman, over the signature of a 

 " Buck's County Farmer," says that he has frequently 

 raised from fifteen to twenty tons of green fodder per 

 acre, and considers one acre sufficient in a good sea- 

 son for twenty head of cattle, from about the begin- 

 ning of July to the middle of August. 



Mr. John G. Webb, a dairy farmer near Utica, 

 who usually plants ten or fifteen acres for summer 

 feeding, reports his yield at twenty-five tons and up- 

 ward per acre.* 



R. H. Mack, of Parma, Ohio, in a communication 

 to the Country Gentleman, gives twenty-two tons 

 per acre as the result of his experience in growing 

 stalks for soiling purposes. 



S. "W. Hall, of Elmira, K Y., has raised thirty 

 tons per acre by actual weight (as he states in the 

 Country Gentleman}, but considers this more than an 

 average yield. 



It has been stated in the New York Dally Tri- 

 bune, that an acre has been known to supply over 

 forty tons of green fodder ; and a still larger product 

 is given in ALleris American Farm Book, where 

 one hundred and thirty-eight thousand eight hundred 

 and sixteen pounds of green corn-stalks cut from one 



* See "Tucker's Annnal Register" for 1864, p. 99. 



