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will induce them to touch the green stuif. I have regularly sowed 

 corn for its green fodder for a number of years, but when I feed to 

 the milk cows in July, they will only eat one day and then leave it 

 for a scanty pasture. They will do a little better when sweet corn 

 is sown. 



Mr. A. S. Fuller. — I tried the sweet corn, and my experience is 

 the same. If positively starved to it, cows will eat it. My horses 

 ate one mess and then stopped, and would not touch it again as long 

 as they could get anything else. 



Mr. D. B. Bruen. — A neighbor of mine, near jSTewark, sowed one 

 piece of ground and cut it just as it was about to silk, let it wilt a 

 day or two, and then fed it. He thought that in summer his cattle 

 could not do without it. 



Mr. A. S. Fiiller. — If wilted, the cattle will eat it better. 



Mr. H. L. Reade. — I have practiced this feeding for years. I plant 

 sweet corn, and always cut a day's feed ahead. My cattle never 

 refuse to eat it. In a conversation with Mr, Putnam, one of the best 

 farmers in Connecticut, a few days since, I was informed that he 

 adopted the same system, and never had any trouble. 



Raisixg Swixe. 



Mr, AV. McEvoy, Equality, 111. — I desire to raise and fatten as 

 many hogs as my means will permit, and, to do so to the best advant- 

 age, would respectfully ask answers to the following questions: 1. 

 Would boiling water thrown on corn meal cook it sufficiently ? 2. Is 

 there anything to be gained by feeding corn and cob meal? 3. What 

 is the value of rye, barley, and oats ground, as compared with corn 

 meal? also, wheat bran, turnips and potatoes cooked? 



I would like to know of a simple and effective remedy for destroy- 

 ing vermin on swine. Every farmer should know it, and the lice 

 should be made to understand it too. 



Mr. F. D. Curtis. — The breed is a matter of much importance. 

 Out there he can get Polands, which have a great name. But the 

 Chester is a great favorite, and in Xew Jersey, where they raise the 

 biggest, often I'eaching an average of 500 pounds through a lot of two 

 score, they have a copper-colored hog that takes on flesh wonderfully. 

 For a big porker you must have a good frame, and this should be 

 built up during the Suntmer on a good grass range before coru ia 

 hard. Farmers often miss it here.' They don't give their hogs a 

 chance to groio before they begin to stuff with corn. I like to see a 



