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inches apart, upon inverted sod, thoroughly manured ; 

 to insure successive supplies, the sowing should be 

 repeated at intervals of a month, from the twentieth 

 of April to the twentieth of July. A later sow- 

 ing than this last, will expose the blades to early 

 frosts. 



The amount of green food which can be cut from 

 an acre of well-grown corn is immense ; but let no 

 one hope for successful results, without a most 

 ample supply of manure, and clean land. The prac- 

 tice has fallen into disfavor with many, from the 

 fact that they have given all their best fertilizers to 

 other crops, and then made the experiment of grow- 

 ing corn-fodder with a flimsy dressing, and no care. 

 They deserved to fail. It is to be observed more- 

 over, that as the crop matures no seed, it makes 

 little drain upon the mineral wealth of the land, and 

 can be followed by any of the cereals. This suggests 

 a simple and short rotation: First, corn grown for its 

 blades and stalks only (the first cuttings being suc- 

 ceeded by turnips) : Second, carrots, Mangel, or pota- 

 toes : Third, oats or other cereal : and Fourth, clover 

 with grass seeds, to be mown so long as the interests 

 of the dairy or the land may demand. 



A professed grain-grower, or an English farmer, 

 would smile at such an unstudied rotation ; but I 

 name it in all confidence, as one adapted to dairy 



