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or oats cut green, and putting them suddenly upon green corn'Stalkalj 

 I found them becoming thin. I would soil them in this method* 

 Select a piece of land neither wet nor dry; make it very rich; it 

 cannot be made too much so. In September, sow rye; double seed 

 it; it comes early in spring; then oata and the common field peas 5 

 they will be a heavy growth; then clover; and after the rye is off, 

 plant corn broad-cast; cut the stalks while they are green and ten- 

 der, before it has its tassel; cut it when it is about two feet high* 

 You can have two, or even three crops of such corn in a season. 

 Plant corn and cut in succession. Thus, you can plant the rye in 

 September, oats early in spring, then your corn crops. If this green 

 feed should cause the diarrhoea, give the cows dry feed for a while. 

 You can keep up your green crops in this way during the whole 

 season from snow to snow ! Four of my cows stabled in winter, and 

 soiled in summer, after this plan, have yielded about three hundred 

 dollars worth of milk, sold to certain hotels in summer, for two and 

 a half cents a quart, and for four cents in winter. I had supposed 

 that a great part of the feed went to produce animal heat. Two 

 cows, which gave each only five quarts daily, gave eleven quarts 

 each after being stabled and well fed there. My cows so managed 

 all increased their milk, while those of my neighbors generally were 

 dry; so great is the benefit of a warm stable, that by putting them 

 into a warm cellar, they increased their milk eight quarts in about 

 one week, and I attribute that increase to warmth alone. There is 

 another thing of very great importance. Instead of a vast quantity 

 of acres, take no more than you can put one hundred loads of good 

 manure upon per acre! And every farmer has the means within his 

 command. He can have muck; he can take the rich soil from head- 

 lands and put it in his barn-yard to mix with dung and urine, and 

 all other things. Then the headland soil will absorb the rich fluid 

 manure. Let those who want to know the effects of good manure 

 well managed, go and see the farm of Gen. Johnson, the President 

 of this Club. There they will see the rich results of his knowledge 

 and care. I have 60 loads of manure by the means of a few pigs, 

 and proper care of the litter, &c. 



Mr. Carter — 1 observed in our Orange County, famed for butter 

 and fine meats, that it was not climate nor soil, but it was care and 

 attention that does it. Abundant cattle make rich pastures, and rich 

 pastures fine cattle; and the well fed fat cattle go well through a 

 hard winter; and not too many cattle upon a farm. One is well paid 

 for proper care of cattle. 



