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Broadcast sowing has been practiced, and although, 

 successful in many instances, is not as proper a 

 method for the cultivation of this crop as the drill or 

 row system. "When sown broadcast, it is either cut 

 down with a machine or scythe, and removed, to a 

 grass lot and cured as hay, and put up in cocks and 

 allowed to remain until thoroughly cured, and, like 

 the grass, should not be cut until after the flower 

 disappears and the seed begins to form. 



Corn fodder, if properly cured, is one of the best 

 and cheapest kinds of food for animals in winter. It 

 is eaten up clean, both stalka and leaves, and, in 

 this respect, it is greatly superior to common husked 

 corn stalks ; and on good, rich, moist soils, sown in 

 driUs, and kept weU cultivated, as much as six tons 

 per acre has been obtained. 



