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many of the stalks -will yield two ears. In some cases, the crops have 

 been remarkable. It gives a sweet, fine meal, and tender, juicy stalks. 



Apple PoaiACE. 



Mr. H. S. Clement, of Winterport, Maine, writes : I noticed in 

 your reports sometime ago a person inquired as to the utility of apple 

 pomace as a manure for top-dressing and other purposes, and was told 

 that it was not of any value after the cider was expressed. 



Mr. Horace Greeley. — I don't see how the pomace of apples could 

 be anything else than useful as a manure on orchards. It is an old 

 and well settled principle that any crop in its decay becomes an 

 appropriate manure for the land on which it was jjroduced. Corn is 

 a fertilizer for corn, cotton seed for cotton. I dave no doubt that 

 damaged flour or wheat M^ould be eifective as a top-dressing on wheat 

 fields ; so the debris of apples should be a good top-dressing for the 

 soil beneath apple trees. It may be necessary to get rid of the acid 

 that would be developed when the pomace is passing the earlier stages 

 of fermentation. 



Dr. J. E. Snodo-rass. — I recollect an instance where a e-arden was 

 made on the site of an old cider-mill which I had bought, and, with- 

 out having special care, it became remarkably productive. 



Mr. P. T. Quinn. — In former years i^ewark was famed for its 

 excellent cider. In making it large quantities of pomace were pro- 

 duced, and the farmers prized it as a fertilizer, but they made it into 

 compost heaps with yard manure, and it was well rotted before it was 

 applied. 



Mr. W. S. Carpenter. — I have not found it necessary to resort to 

 quick-lime, but mix the apple with green yard manure and let it 

 remain six months. 



CurrmG Fodder. 

 Mr. "Warren Gale, of Peekskill, N. T. — I agree with Lucius Libby, 

 in a former number of the club reports, that the practice of cutting 

 hay and wetting and mixing it with meal in order "that horses 

 may bolt it down with very little chewing and in a very little 

 time" is, to say the least, of very little use, and quite likely to be 

 attended with bad consequences. But I do not quite see the analogy 

 between the " water and meal," in its efiects on animals, as compared 

 with hot cofiee or tea on the human system. It scarcely needed the 

 experiments and high authority of Thomas S. Lang, Esq., to prove 

 that " it is more natural or better for animals to masticate their own 



