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of tlie like quality of the soil on which it may be used. The second, 

 and after crops in the rotation, must depend in a great measure upon 

 location and other circumstances. A portion of every crop-farm 

 where there are cattle, should be a field of corn sowed broad-cast or 

 in drills, for cutting green for the farm stock. No crop stands the 

 drought like it, and it may be sowed so as to be at maturity at such 

 time as the cattle need it most — say from the first of August to the 

 last of September. About this season the pastures get dry, the 

 fields have fruit and other crops that prevent the stock being put 

 there, (and this I have thought on the whole fortunate) and I am 

 certain there is no feed so economical as the corn crop. An acre 

 w^ill feed from five to ten or more head of grown cattle a month, ac- 

 cording to soil and season, with as much as they will eat night and 

 morning each day, with what they pick up in the pastures. If you 

 doubt the value or expediency of growing this crop, in such quantities as 

 your stock will eat, try it on some spot in your garden, after pulling up 

 your green peas. A gentleman who resides in Cuba, lately told me, 

 they grow there five crops a year, on the same spot, for stall-feeding. 

 I had rather be without a pasture after July is passed, than without a 

 field of corn to cut and come again to. This county is becoming so 

 studded with villages, that large tracts must be used for vegetables, 

 and the luxuries of life, which a dense population are ever eager to 

 obtain. And whether these places grow up by individual enterprise, 

 or through the medium of congregated wealth, it matters not to the 

 cultivator of the soil, any further than the one furnishes a more per- 

 manent mai'ket than the other. To supply the demands of these 

 growing villages and cities, in vegetables, in fruits, in the products 

 of the dairy and poultry^ard, will be an object worthy the attention 

 of all within a reasonable distance of these ready markets ; and it 

 must become a source of wealth to the surrounding country, if prop- 

 erly improved. Fight with corporate wealth as much as you will, 

 it seems to me we all partake of its benefits, in the reduction of fare 

 for transportation, and in the improved market for the productions 

 of the soil, if no more, in all our populous places. If you fear these 

 supposed monopolies, go to the city on the borders of a neighboring 

 county, where corporations are numerous, and a host of rich men 

 have congregated a portion of their wealth ; or, I would rather say, 

 look in all directions for five or ten miles before you get there, 

 and then say, if the well-cultivated crops, and the thrift of the in- 



