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think it decidedly better than grass, for either beef 

 or milk." 



II. L. Ellsworth, Esq., says: "I sowed four and a 

 half bushels of common corn per acre broadcast, and 

 harrowed in the same. Having 1 soaked the corn in 

 saltpetre, it took a rapid start, over- topped the weeds, 

 and covered the ground with a forest of stalks. 

 Being anxious to ascertain the quantity. I measured 

 a few square feet of the stoutest. I found I had five 

 pounds of green fodder per square foot that is 108 

 tons per acre. I cut the first crop the early part of 

 July, and plowed and sowed the land again, and 

 took a second crop two-thirds as large." (Cultiva- 

 tor, 1842.) 



Here we have 172 tons of green fodder per acre in 

 one year. Ot course this large amount of provender 

 could only be obtained on rich land. 



Mr. Peters says: "The amount of corn fodder 

 which will grow upon an acre is truly fabulous, .and 

 no one will believe it until they have had occular 

 demonstration. It is not a very large thing to grow 

 200 tons of green fodder to the acre. I think it 

 possible to grow 250 tons with care and a good 

 season." (The Gemsee Farmer, 1865 ) 



" Gustavus Harmoir, President of the Agricultural 

 College of Valencinnes, has been experimenting with 

 Indian corn as a soiling crop. The variety used was 

 the ' Grant Maize of Caraqua.' The seed was drilled 

 May 31st, in r^>ws about three feet apart and 18 

 inches in the drill. By the 15th of August the staJks 

 were 14 feet high, and the yield was over 450 tons 

 per acre." (Genesee Farmer, 1863.) 



We have no higher authority on the. value of green 

 corn, as a food for cows, than Col. Waring, of Ogden 



