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time they would not only eat the pea:, with avidity, or greedily, but also chew 

 the pods and vines with like relish, and at once begin to show their value 

 which was continued until they were ripe, after which they were ground 

 together and the meal used to thicken potatoes and pumpkins which were boiled 

 together for the purpose of fattening the hogs until within a few weeks of kill- 

 ing time, when cornmeal was used in its place, or else corn alone fed to harden 

 the pork. And when any horses, cattle, or sheep, happened to be running in 

 the pasture with the hogs they would eat the pea vines and oat straw with 

 the sapie eagerness and relish that the hogs did the peas and oats. So I can 

 vouch for the pea and oat mixture; and I have not a doubt of the value of 

 beans, or bean meal, as a food for growing stock, although, generally, the 

 trouble and labor of raising them will be much greater than that of raising peas, 

 hence the advantage would be in favor of peas, the oats being sown with them 

 for the purpose of holding up the peas, rather than for the oats themselves, 

 although they are good. It is remarkable how much faster young pigs will 

 grow as soon as the peas and oats are full and are thrown to them 

 regularly. It only needs a trial to be adopted by those who have not seen 

 tiiem used. 



Soiling Cows. — It undoubtedly pays to judiciously soil cows, as there is 

 no other way by which so much milk can be obtained from a small number of 

 acres. When the land is in proper condition, a cow can be kept upon one-half 

 acre for summer and one acre for winter. Even better than this has been done. 

 In starting, prepare the ground well — one-eighth of an acre of oats, thickly, for 

 each cow, as early in the season as you can; two or three weeks after this sow 

 the same amount of land to oats again for later cutting. Then prepare the 

 ;^ound and sow one-fourth of an acre to corn for each cow, which will prob- 

 ably leave a surplus towards the winter feeding. 



Sweet Cornstalks for Cows.— "When the ears have been gathered the 

 stalks of sweet corn make the very best of fodder. It is not only very sweet 

 and nutritious, but as the ears are gathered before maturity the stalks, if cut at 

 once, as they should be, are in the very best condition for use as fodder. There 

 is some difBculty in curing the stalks; but in several years' experience with them 

 in a rathei 'arge way we have had no trouble in keeping the fodder in excellent 

 condition. The great point and need is to thoroughly dry the stalks out of 

 doors. They should be first well wilted and partly dried upon the ground, laid 

 down as they are cut in small bundles, which, when bound afterward, will 

 make easily handled sheaves. After 24 hours or more of exposure the bundles 

 may be bound with a straw band or an osier stalk, and the sheaves so made set 

 up in stocks, loosely placed, so as to admit the air freely among them. The 

 stock or small stack should be well bound at the top to exclude rain, and left 

 out of doors until completely dried and cured. The fodder may then be safely 

 housed in the barn or under the roof of an open shed near the barn, where it 

 can be reached conveniently for use. Fodder so cured is equal to the best hay, 

 and will be eaten with avidity and without wa^te or loss. Of more than 17 

 acres grown last season and fed to cows in our dairy the past winter there was 

 scarce a particle to be found in the manure, every fragment excepting some feyt 



