95 



year old geldings, $82, $27; 12 entered, but 11 exhibited. 

 Class v., three year old fillies, $55, $27; 4 entered and 4 

 exhibited. Total amount of premiums, $327 ; total animals 

 entered, 28, and total exhibited, 26. 



While making a short but most interesting visit to a Hun- 

 garian acquaintance, I was shown, among other things, a way 

 of curing fodder-corn that I know must be new to most of my 

 readers, and wishing to make it known to them I had intended 

 to write of it now. My Hungarian friend has, however, adopt- 

 ed my suggestion and has himself written a description of it 

 for the " American Agriculturist," which I copy. The fodder 

 is cut for use in a manner similar to that in which hay is cut 

 from a stack. 



" Sour-Fodder Making. The curing of various kinds of 

 green fodder into sour hay is perhaps in the United States a not 

 commonly practiced manipulation, especially the souring of 

 green corn, which should be practiced with more effect on the 

 farms of the United States of America. The making of dry 

 hay of green is an injurious manner of curing it. Although 

 the writer of this is not acquainted with American farming, 

 except by reading the American Agriculturist, nevertheless I 

 communicate a method of preservation of juicy fodder, pecu- 

 liarly important for corn-producing America. 



" The corn is sown broadcast, or drilled- in rows nine to 

 eighteen inches apart, two mezins to one Austrian toch, (or 

 about 3.3 hectolitre to one hectare.) [This is nearly three and 

 one-half bushels to the acre.] The cultivation remains the 

 same ; the field must be kept free from weeds. At blossom 

 time the corn is mown, loaded into wagons, and hauled in. 

 The home-brought corn is put in large ditches, (German, 

 Grube Miethe,) ten or twenty rods long, and is here pressed in 

 by a few men walking on the green corn. The accompanying 

 engraving will explain the whole. The ditch is twelve feet 

 deep, twelve feet wide at the top, and six feet at the bottom. 

 The length will need to be sufficient to contain the fodder to 

 be preserved. The ditch must be dug in dry ground. When 

 the ditch is filled, the green corn is built like a stack upwards, 



