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enough to pay for these extra foods. Poor cows will not 

 respond so much to extra feeding, and will not, in fact, pay 

 a profit under any system of feeding ; they are not, there- 

 fore, to be considered in this statement. 



Peas and oats, grown together, just when the peas are 

 past the blossom, make an excellent extra food to make up 

 for deficiency of pastures. 



Sweet corn early and late varieties is most excellent 

 food for the production of milk. The early varieties will 

 come on the latter part of July, and give the cows a much- 

 relished food. 



Stowell's evergreen is an excellent late variety which may 

 be fed through September and October, and even later. 

 This corn, to be fed green, should be cultivated in the same 

 manner as when intended for market. Thick sowing is 

 now quite abandoned by the most careful feeders. It 

 should be planted in drills at least 32 inches apart, and cul- 

 tivated two or more times, according to the condition of 

 the soil. Sweet corn for such feeding is altogether to be 

 preferred to common field corn, because of its remaining 

 succulent so much longer, and also because it contains 

 much more sugar and less starch. The sugar is more easily 

 digested and assimilated, and makes better flavored milk. 

 It is intended to allow the sweet corn to mature to nearly 

 the same stage as when it is sent to market for culinary use. 

 It is in the best condition for feeding after being run 

 through a straw cutter ; but cows will eat it greedily with- 

 out cutting. Sweet corn has a larger percentage of albu- 

 minoids than common corn. This corn is also excellent to 

 feed with late cuttings of clover, and with green peas and 

 oats. If the dairyman will prepare the land, and put in 

 one acre to each five cows in his herd with sweet corn, peas 

 and oats, or millet, to be fed at the proper season, he will 

 not only get the best yield from his cows, but keep up the 

 fertility of his pastures. 



