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but in quantity it failed me. I generally sow wheat and oats 

 on corn stalk land. 



CORN. 



• I have found that corn is the only grain that pays me for 

 raising it. One feature about corn is that its cultivation does 

 not impoverish the soil, as small grain does. I have raised corn 

 for three or four consecutive years on the same ground, and the 

 last crop has been better than the first, both in quality and 

 quantity. It pays best to feed corn to hogs and cattle. Corn 

 has never failed me as a feed for stock of all kinds and under 

 all circumstances. 



I generally plow all stubble land as soon after harvest as 

 I can, which generally kills all weeds and makes the very 

 best corn land. I always harrow my corn ground well before 

 laying it off. After planting I harrow again, and when the corn 

 commences to come up I give it another and last harrowing, 

 which kills about all the weeds that are then up. After the 

 corn gets up so that I can see the rows, I hitch to my double- 

 shovel plow, and keep myself busy, say on fifty acres of corn, 

 until too high for plowing. If the season is good the result 

 will be a good crop of corn. 



HEREFOEDS. 



I raise Hereford cattle, and have had them for years. I like 

 them well. They are gentle, mature early, and are fair milkers 

 and good butter makers, and easily kept on little feed. 



CALVES. 



I raise the calves by hand, allowing the calf to stay with 

 the cow only till the ninth milking, when I take it to some 

 secluded place, where the mother does not see it. I then milk 

 the cow, and give the calf one gallon of the fresh milk twice 

 a day till the fourteenth day. I then commence giving skimmed 

 milk, taken from the previous milking, (say if in the evening, 

 the morning milk,) first having made it tepid warm, and give 

 the calf about five quarts of this milk to a meal, twice per day, 

 giving older and a larger quantity of milk for twelve weeks 



