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vast amount of time, seed, and patience, I have concluded that 

 there is but one way, and that is by drilling with rye, in 

 September or October, about one bushel of timothy seed to 

 five acres of land, to be followed by four quarts of red clover 

 the following Spring ; but not until all danger of hard freezing 

 has passed. I pasture the rye until the middle of May, by 

 which time pastures will be in good condition. The stock 

 must be removed and kept off until the grain is formed ; then 

 I pasture with horses, hogs, cattle, or any kind of stock that I 

 desire to fatten. I expect enough of the grain to remain on 

 the ground to make fine feed the following Fall, and a good 

 crop the second year; by this time the young grass will have a 

 good start and may be harvested with the rye for feed, or 

 pastured, as circumstances require. I am careful to allow 

 enough of the clover to go to seed to re-seed the ground, should 

 the old growth be killed by a hard Winter. 



CORN. 

 After grass for pasture and meadow, I regard corn as next 

 in importance ; and the idea being that any one can raise corn, 

 I think accounts for the fact that in the greatest corn producing 

 State in the Union, the average yield per acre is below thirty 

 bushels. The few good farmers in every county, whose crops 

 of corn usually average from fifty to seventy-five and as high 

 as one hundred bushels per acre, are standing witnesses that 

 the low average yield of the State is wholly attributable to a 

 lack of intelligent cultivation. The best preparation for corn 

 is to plow land from six to ten inches ; the deeper the better 

 when done in the Fall or early Winter. I prefer pasture sod, 

 oats, or wheat stubble, but where corn is to follow corn, if 

 at all possible I plow the stalks under in the Fall, for which 

 purpose I find the 



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especially adapted. I am convinced that the advantages 

 gained last year by the use of one on fifty acres of land, upon 

 which there was too heavy a growth of stalks to admit of era- 

 ploying an ordinary two-horse plow, more than paid the cost 



