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be introduced from Europe or the Northern 
States. 
The Maize, or Corn crop, however, 
should remain as it now is, the chief product for 
wintering the stock of the South-West. The 
gourd seed grain, with a stalk growing 10 feet 
high, is their best variety, and with easy culti¬ 
vation on good lands, 50 to 100 bushels are pro¬ 
duced to the acre. With a little extra attention, 
enormous products have lately been realized, 
averaging 140 to 200 bushels to the acre in 
large fields. As soon as the ears are well 
glazed, and the lower leaves of the stalks be¬ 
come dry, the best husbandry is to cut up the 
corn within a foot of the ground and shock it. 
By this time the stalks are sufficiently dry to 
escape moulding, and cut thus early, more sac¬ 
charine matter is preserved in the fodder. It is 
more nutritious too, and easier masticated by 
the stock, and, according to careful experiments, 
this course is found to produce a larger yield of 
grain. During the winter the corn is husked 
and cribbed, and the stalks carted to some adja¬ 
cent pasture field and fed to the horned stock in 
place of hay. A more careless manner of feed¬ 
ing is pursued by others, not cutting up the corn 
at all, but turning droves of fatting cattle into 
large fields, to be followed by hogs to eat up 
what passes whole through the cattle, or is 
thrown down and trampled upon the ground. 
If rye has not been sown among the corn for 
spring pasture, and if the field is not destined 
for corn again the succeeding year, as soon as 
it is cut up and shocked in September, it is 
sowed to wheat, and where the corn shocks 
stood during winter, is sowed in the spring to 
oats. This last system, however, is so wasteful 
that it is now nearly abandoned by all good far¬ 
mers, and some even instead of feeding their 
corn whole to the hogs in the ear, have mills 
for grinding it, cob and all, and then mix it up 
with water and let it ferment before feeding. 
Where the proper conveniences exist, we have 
no doubt, the extra labor in doing this is more 
than compensated by the saving of grain, even 
at its present low price. 
Blue Grass. — T he great boast of Kentucky 
is her blue grass pastures, and of these, she cer¬ 
tainly has great cause to be proud. It is grass 
that admirably suits the climate, and this fertile, 
calcareous soil, clothing it with the richest and 
most nutritious feed, and when left from the 
month of August to grow through the autumn, 
it attains sufficient height before cold weather 
sets in to protect itself, and thus grows on all 
winter, affording the stock turned upon it, except 
when covered, as it will be occasionally for a 
few days, with snow, all the food they may want 
to keep them in good heart till spring. 
Parks.— As the country was cleared up, the 
settlers had the good taste to leave what they 
here call woodland pastures, that are made by 
merely underbrushing among the original forest 
trees, and sowing the ground to grass. These 
lend a sort of grandeur and relief to the landscape, 
giving it great beauty and variety, and equal in 
appearance, to the noblest parks of England. 
They protect the cattle from the cold blasts of 
winter, afford them a grateful shade in the sum¬ 
mer, and preserve the grass green and growing 
during the hot season, causing the pastures to 
produce more than grows in the open fields that 
are left entirely open. Groves also of the Lo¬ 
cust are allowed to grow up for the same pur¬ 
pose, and to furnish timber for building and 
fencing stuff 
Stock.—Horses, Mules and Cattle. 
We doubt whether there is a district of the same 
size that can make a superior show of fine stock 
than is now to be found in the circle about Lex¬ 
ington. Here there are blood horses of the 
largest and finest description, animals of great 
fleetness, power, substance, and endurance. Ass¬ 
es that are surprisingly large, 15 to 16 hands 
high, and the stock of mules from these great 
animals, are of prodigious power. We have 
seen them occasionally 17 hands high, and ta¬ 
king their end of the yoke quite satisfactorily, 
harnessed in, cheek by jowl, by the side of a 
great cart horse. The Short Horns are nu¬ 
merous and very highly and finely bred, and 
have added great wealth to the state. They 
find with this superior race of cattle and its 
crosses, that they can bring a beast to market 
of as great weight at four years old, as they 
formerly were obliged to wait 7 or 8 years for, 
which is certainly no inconsiderable saving of 
time, and adds largely to the profit of beef rais¬ 
ing. We should be glad now as Kentucky 
possesses some of the best milking families of 
the short horned tribe, to see her pay a little 
more attention to the dairy, for she certainly 
might greatly excel in this line, and produce 
butter and cheese as cheap as can be done at the 
North. High crosses of the short horns upon 
the native stock, have turned out some great 
milkers. We have been informed that one cow 
on the best of clover and blue-grass pasture, 
without other food, averaged 41 quarts of milk 
per day, for three weeks, and others in winter 
on hay and corn fodder, gave from 20 to 26 
quarts for three months in succession. 
Sheep. —Kentucky can also boast some fine 
flocks of Sheep, and the growing of Wool now 
is considered quite profitable, and the only ob¬ 
jection to increasing their flocks, is the liability 
of their being killed by dogs. We believe that 
the apprehension from dogs, has been one of the 
greatest hinderances to the spread of sheep hus¬ 
bandry throughout the West, thereby incurring a 
