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value of corn fodder ; and if even the top-stalks are cut, the 

 batts are left to be browsed with little advantage to the stock 

 which feed among them, or to waste away in the field where 

 they grew. The haulm or fodder of broom-corn has within 

 my knowledge never been saved for the use of stock, except- 

 ing in a single instance. The Shakers of Canterbury, N. H., 

 among the most economical, judicious, and thrifty farmers in 

 New England, save it with as much care, and consider it 

 equally valuable for supporting their young stock, as the haulm 

 of Indian corn. If farmers, therefore, would increase the 

 growing of vegetables for their stock, with the help of such 

 resources as these, straw, corn-stalks, broom-refuse, and even 

 buck-wheat straw, they might raise a good deal of stock at a 

 very small expense. 



In the next place, it is confidently believed that the farmers 

 might to a great extent increase the products of their farms by 

 cultivation. They might very much increase their crops on 

 the land which they now cultivate, and much extend their 

 tillage. Where now they get one and a half ton of hay 

 to the acre, they should obtain two and a half tons ; fifty 

 bushels of corn, they should get seventy-five ; thirty bushels 

 of oats, they should get fifty ; two hundred bushels of potatoes, 

 they should get four hundred. This can be done because it 

 has been done. The increase of products would enable them 

 to increase their stock ; and young growing stock after one 

 year old, will be found under good management to pay as well 

 in their growth as fatting stock. All this will require labor 

 and expenditure ; but if the labor and expenditure are amply 

 repaid, what more can we ask for ? The farmers in the river- 

 towns, as far as respects the winter keeping of their stock, can 

 afford to keep them as cheaply as in the hill-towns ; in truth 

 their hay and corn do not cost them so much. In sum- 

 mer, the hill-towns are more favored in respect to pasturage ; 

 but cattle can be driven to pasture a considerable distance 

 without injury ; and farmers in the river-towns undertaking to 

 raise or to fat stock, should have pastures, even though they 



