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animals on the pastures ; and it was always greedily devoured 
without a vestige of waste. During the time of its consump- 
tion cheese-making and butter-making progressed briskly, 
several varieties of cheese having been made. If it were ne- 
cessary to state that any difference occurred in the quality of 
either butter or cheese, I should say that both were better than 
at any other time of the year, while the flow of milk was splen- 
didly maintained, and, speaking from practical experience, I 
would rather be without any other kind of food during September 
and October than without maize. According to the French table 
compiled by M. Sabatier and quoted by M. Lecouteux, maize 
composed as follows — 
Nitrogenous matter , . . . 1 • 85 
Fat -056 
Starch, sugar, &c 7 ■ 18 
is valued at 95. 6(Z. per ton — the nitrogenous portion being 
valued at 05. \d. at the French estimate of ?>\d. per kilogramme, 
the fat at about Irf., and the starchy matters at \d., the basis 
taken being upon average hay valued at 48s. per ton. Analyses 
of maize, however, vary considerably. M. Grandeau gives the 
comparative analysis of M. Goffart's maize thus ; albuminoids, 
1"22 ; fat, -25 ; soluble carbo-hydrates, 10-41 ; sugar, -58.* 
As showing the value of maize for stock, when grown upon a 
system under which cereals form no part, the case of M. Moreul 
may be quoted. This gentleman occupies 60 acres of land, 
divided into three plots : 15 acres grass, 22i acres lucerne — 
which remain for six years — 20 acres maize, and 2i acres 
cabbage — the maize and cabbage forming one plot. At the end 
of each six years the maize-crop and lucerne-crop change places, 
so that there is practically no rotation system adopted. Here 
maize reaches a crop of some 30 tons per acre annually, and 
enables M. Moreul to do extraordinary work with his small 
quantity of land. M. Lecouteux himself showed me his system 
of cropping at Cergay. He has a six years' rotation of forage- 
crops, which occupy 142 acres of land, lying within a radius of 
a quarter of a mile of the farm, so that the cost of carting is 
minimised. This acreage is divided into twenty 3-acre plots, 
outside of which are his pastures and cereals. The rotation is 
as follows : — First year, maize manured with dung and phos- 
phates ; second year, tares ; third year, trifolium incarnatum, 
planted in August and September after tares, and followed by 
cabbage ; fourth year, potatoes, well manured, with swede 
turnips sown between the rows after moulding up ; fifth year, 
oats ; sixth year, clover, this crop having been manured 
with phosphate of lime. The following table, compiled by 
* ' Silos for British Fodder Crops : ' ' Field ' Office, 346, Strand, W.C. 
