24:0 INDIAN CORN. 



suddenly annihilated, or even if it were seriously 

 damaged for a single season. 



2. CORN AS FOOD FOR DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 



Every description of live stock that is usually kept 

 upon the farm may be fed with economy and advan- 

 tage upon the grain or the stover of maize, or upon 

 both combined, provided these are given with judg- 

 ment, and not to the exclusion of other feed. For 

 poultry and swine, the grain itself is well adapted. All 

 other kinds of stock will eat with avidity both the 

 stalk and the grain, and will thrive upon them, if they 

 are properly prepared and blended in suitable pro- 

 portions with other provender. 



Corn meat is sometimes fed to cattle without due 

 regard to regularity, and in quantities inconsiderate 

 and unreasonable. The effect of such feeding is not 

 only to injure the animal, but to bring undeserved 

 odium upon the grain. Indian meal is a concentrated 

 feed, and like guano among fertilizers, depends for 

 its highest usefulness and value upon being judiciously 

 blended with the right material, and in the right pro- 

 portions. 



It is a good general rule in feeding, and equally 

 applicable to all kinds of grain, as well as to roots and 

 hay, to confine no class of animals to any one or two 

 articles of food. Variety is conducive to health, and 

 the more carefully the husbandman acts upon this 

 principle, the better his stock will thrive. 



