INDIAN CORN. 



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yello-w corn. The next day after planting I dropped fifty-five 

 bushels of dry ashes on to the hills; went through with the 

 plough once, and cultivated twice ; hoed twice. 



Expenses : — 

 Ploughing, 

 Cross ploughing, . 

 Four hundred bushels ashes, 

 Cost of ashes and dropping. 

 Twenty-one cords manure, 

 Carting and spreading, . 

 Harrowing, . 

 Planting and furrowing, . 

 Ploughing and cultivating, 

 Hoeing, .... 

 Seed corn, 



$193 79 



BaiDGE'WATEii, Mass. 



Corn for Fodder. 



From the Report of the Committee o?i Farms, in Norfolk- 

 County. 



The cultivation of this highly nutritious, succulent food, was 

 long ago recommended by one of the most eminent agriculturists 

 in this part of our country, the Hon. Timothy Pickering, of Salem,, 

 first president of the Essex Agricultural Society. In this 

 county, as in Essex, and elsewhere, it has been uniformly, 

 attended with the best results. Tracts of old pasture land^ 

 and of light, sandy soil, have been made to produce large crops 

 of this choice feed for dairy cows, at a period when the grass 

 on such land would have failed to furnish even a tolerable 

 supply ; while, at the same time, the soil has been placed in the 

 most suitable condition for future tillage and other crops. 



The experience of a farmer in this county, who has grown 

 corn fodder for many years, has been an increase of succulent 

 and nutritious 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 

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