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Some growers cut the tops off' the corn when dead, 

 and use them for fodder for their cattle. The inside 

 husks make good stuffing for mattresses. The stalks 

 are best burned on the field in heaps, with as much 

 earth gathered round as the fire will be able to char. 

 Ashes are valuable as manure for all farm crops. 



Seed and time of sowing : Too much care cannot be 

 bestowed on the selection of seed. Select the largest 

 and best cobs, and only sow the seeds from the centre. 

 Endeavor to procure the longest grain, as the yield 

 will be greater, the number and width of the grains 

 being the same. One-tenth greater length in the grain 

 will give you one-tenth more crop, or fifty bushels more 

 in five hundred. Sow the common maize in July and 

 August for summer crop, and in January for winter 

 crop. The ninety-day maize may be sown in February. 



Sir William Alacarthur, Camden Park, N.S.W., grows 

 excellent varieties of early and late maize, which he is 

 careful to preserve pure. 



EARLY WHITE TUSCARORA CORN, &c. 



This fine flour corn w^as introduced here several 

 years since, and is still cultivated to a small extent. 

 The pure white flour from this com, boiled in milk, 

 would make a most agreeable and heartening breakfast 

 for the family of the agriculturist, and it is to be re- 

 gretted that an um^easoning prejudice should interfere 

 with the extended use of this wholesome grain, in its 

 various forms as an article of diet. It is of dwarf 

 habit, ripens in ninety days from the day of sowing, 

 and may be sown as late as March. An experiment 

 was made in the season of 1864 by the Author, as 

 follows ; — On August 26th some seed of this corn was 

 sown ; the season was backward and nights very cold, 

 and the corn was consequently much retarded. On 

 Kovember 24th the crop was gathered ripe and dry, and 

 a row of selected seed was sown. On February 2-ith 



