MR. colman's address. 15 



and beast ; whicli will make more flesh ; which retums so much 

 to the land ; and bears more frequent planting upon the same 

 ground. 



Crops, exceeding one hundred bushels to an acre, have been 

 raised in this county. No farmer ought to be satisfied with a 

 less crop than fifty bushels to the acre ; and, while pork is 

 worth six cents a pound, he may estimate his corn as equal to 

 seventy cents per bushel. Fifty bushels to the acre then may 

 be safely valued at thirty five dollars ; and the fodder from an 

 acre of corn if well saved will do much towards paying for the 

 labor of cultivation. It will do more when carefully managed, 

 than any other crop, toward supplying its own manure. I do 

 not speak at random. Mr. W. P. Livingston, of New Yorlc, 

 gives it as his opinion that the fodder will pay for the cultivation. 

 Lorain of Pennsylvania obtained from an acre yielding sixty six 

 bushels to the acre, (and the ground was planted with potatoes 

 as well as corn,) of 



Tg7i. Cwf. lbs. 

 Blades, husks and tops, 1 6 13 



Stalks or butts 1 7 00 



Total 2 13 13 gross.* 

 Mr. Phillips, an intelligent farmer of Pennsylvania, says, " that 

 he is fully of opinion, that a field of good corn will yield as much 

 fodder and contain as much nutriment as a field of the best 

 clover of equal size."f 



The saving of corn fodder ought to be much more matter of 

 attention than it is. It is a slovenly and wasteful practice to 

 leave our corn butts in the field to be browsed by cattle and so 

 to serve no use as manure rather than carefully to gather and 

 feed them cut in winter in our barn yards, where v.hat is not 

 consumed by the stock, will go at once to increase the compost 

 heap. 



Of potatoes as a profitable crop I have great distmst. Be- 

 yond what is wanted lor marketing or family use they afford 



■ Lorain's Husbandry, p. 201. f N. Y. Memoirs, vol. III. p. 374. 



