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The experience of a farmer in this County, who has grown corn 

 fodder for many years, has been an increase of succulent and nutri- 

 tious feed sufficient to sustain double the number of Cows formerly 

 kept on the same land. His mode of cultivating it has been chiefly 

 by the use of the plough. The ground being in proper condition is 

 deeply farrowed with a large plough. These furrows are supplied 

 with a heavy dressing of green manure, or of green and compost 

 thoroughly mixed. Sweet Oorn^ or a mixture of Sweet and North- 

 ern field corn, is sown thickly upon them : and the soil is turned back 

 to cover it by the horse plough passing on each side of the furrow. 

 This, with slight use of the hoe, will sufficiently cover and level the 

 top of the drill, and one repetition of the ploughing and hoeing will 

 finish the necessary labor on the growing crop. The Sweet Corn is 

 found to produce a more succulent and tender stalk and leaf than 

 the White Southern Corn, which is usually planted. Cattle will eat 

 it with avidity and entirely, while the coarse stalk of the other sort 

 is often left untouched upon the field, or in the crib. The leaf is 

 broader and draws more nourishment from the atmosphere, and the 

 whole plant is less exhausting to the soil and more grateful to the 

 Cattle. The superior efiect of its use is also to be traced in the 

 quality of the milk and the butter. 



The extensive culture of this article is therefore recommended 

 with the full belief that the benefit of it will be seen in the large 

 increase of stock which can be well kept on the same number of 

 acres, and in the general products and profits of our farms. We 

 add, also, that the use of green corn fodder, as the principal 

 food, has been found amply sufficient to sustain and keep in good, 

 thriving condition, store pigs, from its first growth until the autumn 

 frosts are felt. 



From a brief experience we are disposed to recommend with much 

 confidence the " Stowell," or " Evergreen Sweet Corn," as the most 

 productive variety to be grown on our soil. From this corn, with no 

 great labor or cost, from five to ten tons of the richest feed may be 

 raised on any acre of ground which would have failed to yield, under 

 the best cultivation, three, or even two, tons of hay, or in pasture, to 

 have kept, in good condition, one cow. If cut early and dried in 

 small bundles on the fence, or in stocks, after wilting in the sun, this 

 plant affords excellent winter feed for all sorts of stock, and if 



