CHAPTER II. 



INDIAN CORN OR MAIZE. 



It would probably be correct to say that Indian 

 corn (Zea Mays) furnishes more food for live stock 

 than any other plant now grown in the United 

 States, and that it will continue to do so through all 

 the years that are yet to come. Taking everything 

 into consideration it will probably produce more food 

 per acre for domestic animals than any other plant, 

 and there are but few foods which can be fed in a 

 greater variety of ways. In furnishing soiling food 

 on unirrigated land, it is in some respects without a 

 rival on the American continent. So great is its 

 value for this use that in the near future very few 

 sections will be found in all the United States in 

 which it will not be grown on a large majority of the 

 farms by those who keep live stock. 



Green corn is pre-eminently a food for dairy 

 cows when in milk, owing in part to the close relation 

 between succulence in food and free milk production. 

 But it may also be fed with much advantage to other 

 classes of cattle when pastures are scant, and also to 

 horses of all ages, although to horses at work it 

 should not be given in large quantities, lest a too lax 

 condition of the bowels be induced. It furnishes 

 excellent green food for sheep, when of fine growth. 

 It also furnishes food for swine that is much relished 

 by them, especially when the corn is of the sweet 



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