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it can be turned to good account as stock food. Cows are 

 very fond of it and it is excellent for producing milk. Nor 

 will it affect the taste of milk if fed just before or during 

 the process of milking. It is also of great value for the 

 farm poultry, as ducks, geese and common fowl apparent- 

 ly prefer it to any other species of green food. In order 

 to raise large firm heads of cabbage a moist strong soil is 

 required. They are great feeders and demand heavy ma- 

 nuring. Surely five cords of good compost should be ap- 

 plied to the acre, and better still would be eight or ten. 

 Potash in form of wood ashess seem to be particularly 

 adapted to cabbage growth, and a handful of same applied 

 to each hill, or a broadcast distribution of say one hundred 

 bushels to the acre, materially adds to size and quality 

 of crop. Fish waste and refuse of glue works are also 

 deemed by some economical fertilizers. For a general 

 crop of cabbage it is more satisfactory to sow the seed 

 where it is intended for the plants to grow, than to prac- 

 tice transplanting, for the latter plan is more trouble, it 

 can not be depended upon in times of great drought, and at 

 best, it sets the crop back a fortnight more or less. 



CORN. 



The importance and value of the corn crop is shown by 

 the fact that it forms the basis of our system of cattle 

 feeding. Both the grain and stalk of the corn plant have 

 always been of great value to our stockmen and dairymen, 

 but with the advent of the silo, the cultivation and con- 

 sumption of the crop have largely increased. At first 

 farmers were skeptical concerning the benefits derived from 

 feeding ensilage ; but the old-time prejudices have become 

 dissipated under the influence of extended practical experi- 

 ence in its use, until it is now generally acknowledged by 

 stock owners, that good corn ensilage affords a most health- 

 ful, nutritious and economical food for most farm animals, 

 supplying as it does, green, succulent matter in winter, 

 when there is a general dearth of such substances. Corn 



