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$16, medium and minor silver medals; 19 entered, Imt 

 12 exhibited. Class X., draught geldings foaled after first of 

 January, 1870, preminms, medium gold, silver, medium and 

 minor silver medals ; 5 entered and 5 exhibited. Class XL, 

 draught geldings foaled after first of January, 1871, premiums, 

 medium gold, silver, medium and minor silver medals ; 4 en- 

 tered, but three exhibited. Total amount of premiums, $1,048, 

 medium gold, 1 silver, 11 medium silver and 11 minor silver 

 medals; total animals entered, 221, and total exhibited, 169. 



The premiums ofiered by the Yorkshire Agricultural Society 

 for coach horses are : Class L, coaching stallions, $55, $27 ; 10 

 entered, but 9 exhibited. Class II., two-year-old geldings, 

 $55, $27 ; 8 entered and 8 exhibited. Class III., two-year-old 

 fillies, $38, $16 ; 4 entered, but 3 exhibited. Class IV., three- 

 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 nutst be new to most of my 

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

 tcf write of it now. My Hungarian friend has, however, 

 adopted 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 practised manipulation, especially the souring 

 of green corn, which should be practised with more effect on 

 the farms of the United States of America. The makins: 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,' nev- 

 ertheless I communicate a method of preservation of juicy 

 fodder, peculiarly important fbr 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 



