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with clover ; because a much larger quantity is 

 turned under yearly of corn than of clover. By being 

 expeditious in business when a crop of wheat, oats or 

 barley is taken off in July, as they are many times, 

 it' the soil is plowed immediately and Indian corn 

 sowed it will grow large enough in ordinary seasons, 

 before the autumnal frosts to plow under. But when 

 clover is raised, no other crop can be grown the 

 t<ame season." 



These are very high recommendations in favor of 

 jrreen corn. And are they not true ? Whatever is 

 undoubtedly beneficial, as food for animals, most 

 certainly will be good manure. Why is clover so 

 much better than wheat straw, for animal food? 

 Kecause it contains more than four times as much 

 nitrogen as the straw. And that is the very reason 

 why it is so much better for manure. 



Without nitrogenous food we can ha ye no flesh 

 upon our bones. Without nitrogen in the soil, we 

 can raise but little food that will make flesh. In 

 other words, nitrogen is an absolute monarch who 

 can never be dethroned, while life exists upon the 

 globe. 



CHAPTER VII. 



GREFN CORN AS A PROTECTION AND MULCH FOR WHEAT. 



One ton of green corn contains 6 pounds of nitrogen, 

 2i pounds of phosphoric acid, 9 pounds of potash and 

 1600 pounds of water I find by years of experience 

 that it is better to plow in two crops of corn in one 

 year, than one great heavy crop, which has grown 

 all the spring and summer. 



