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pieces of some of the coarser butts having been consumed. This, of course, is 

 due in a great measure to the fact that the fodder was finely cut and wetted, 

 and the meal given mixed with it. The economy of such a practice and such a 

 crop so used is too obvious to need comment. — Farmer's Magazine. 



Sweet Cornstalks with the Corn for Milch Cows.— The stalks 

 above, when cured as in the foregoing recipe, are excellent even as winter food; 

 but the following plan of feeding the corn upon the stalk while green as a sum- 

 mer food, as practiced by Dwight Judd, of South Hadley , Mass. , for two years 

 past, in the New York Herald, has the advantage largely in its favor. When 

 asked what he considered the feeding value of sweet corn for milch cows, he 

 said: " It is invaluable. Cornmeal is not to be compared with it as a feed for 

 producing milk." He keeps, says the Herald, a herd of 20 as nice cows as can 

 be found in this vicinity, and says: " When my cows fail a little in milk and I 

 want for my trade a couple of extra cows, I tell my man to cut an extra row 

 or two of corn, and in two or three days I have the amount of milk desired." 

 He plants with a corn-planter, the rows 33^ feet apart, and 23 inches apart in 

 the hills, dropping only 2 or 3 kernels in a liill; and commences feeding it as 

 soon as the corn is fit for table use. 



Dry Cornstalks, the Best Way to Peed Them.— When hay is 

 scarce, but cornstalks and straw are plentiful, the best way is to cut both finely 

 and mix in proportions of 2 baskets of stalks to 1 of straw, and mix dry for sev- 

 eral days' feeding, as it ■Rill not heat, but improve, by standing together. 

 Of course, hay is better than straw treated the same way, and all classes of 

 stock will relish it, and especially so if, when to be fed, it is first slightly 

 wet, then a good sprinkling of meal or bran mixed in, nothing except occasion- 

 ally, perhaps, a large butt may be rejected, but seldom that much is left; nor 

 will any part of them be seen ip the manure if a proper amount of roots are also 

 fed to help dissolve and gelatinize this coarser food, as previously explained. 

 A correspondent of the Country Gentleman says he had rather have this fine 

 cutting of coarse food than to have it steamed, if it was done even for the 

 same expense. The cutting is certainly very desirable, no matter what stock 

 is to be fed with it. 



Corn Fodder vs. Hay, Comparative Value of.— Professor J. W. 

 Sanborn, of the Missouri Agricultural College, claims that he has proved, 

 through a long practice and many experiments, that corn fodder has a prac- 

 tical feeding value of two-thirds to three-fourths that of good hay. [Our own 

 experience fully justifies the above estimate. — Editors, Farm and Fireside.'] 



Hungarian Grass for Milch Cows, Claimed better than Hay. 

 A correspondent of the New York Sun claims that Hungarian grass, when sown 

 thick enough to make fine stalks, is better than even good hay. He sows 3 

 pecks of seed to the acre, on fine soil, and finely worked with harrow and 

 roller, both before and after sowing; and sowing any time from the 15th of 

 May to the 10th of June. Fit to cut in 9 weeks. Another writer thinks it val- 

 uable for horses, after having fed it two winters. Changing only occasionally 

 Hdth cut oats; and he adds: "nothing better for calves and milch cows." Eff 



