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corn with sheep is very little, as compared with the 

 waste in pasturing it with cattle. And, in providing 

 pasture for this class of live stock, it may be success- 

 fully grown wherever sheep are kept in the arable 

 portions of the United States and Canada. 



The greatest obstacle in the way of growing 

 corn for pasture lies in the cost of the seed, which in 

 some seasons is a considerable item. But this cost is 

 offset in the abundance of the pasture furnished, and 

 in its timeliness. 



Distribution. Corn can be grown successfully 

 for forage in any part of the United States that is 

 susceptible of cultivation. As would naturally be 

 expected, some sections are much more favorable 

 than others to its production ; but there is no state in 

 the Union in which at least one crop of pasture can- 

 not be grown every season, and in some of the states 

 two or more crops can be grown in succession. The 

 states included in what is known as the corn belt have 

 a most decided advantage in growing corn for the 

 grain product; but in growing it as forage, the 

 advantage is materially lessened. Since a corn crop 

 will reach a stage sufficiently advanced for being pas- 

 tured off in from six to ten weeks from the time of 

 sowing the seed, according to the weather, the period 

 of growth is quite long enough to admit of growing 

 a crop of corn forage as far north as Lake Winnipeg. 

 Corn wants heat and moisture to produce it quickly, 

 and in nearly all the tillable portions of the United 

 States and Canada there is enough of both to pro- 

 duce a maximum crop of corn that will become suffi- 

 ciently advanced for being eaten down before the 

 coming of the cool weather of autumn. 



Inland from the oceans, the average heat of the 



