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valuable and nutritiv 
bottom up, which is absolu y . summer use will give us a consid- 
plant, and, if it should not be The time of 
erable quantity of c ° r "’ “ ® j imme diately after I have planted my field 
planting fodder corn, with n , . . nq differ. What we want is 
corn. As to the kind of com 0 P nr onortion of leaves with a small stalk, 
that kind that will produce the but it is more 
S weet corn would seem to answer^ this » l -/^,inly produces less 
expensive to procure than CO mmon dent variety, with good re¬ 
bulk of food per acre. I have useci f days after planting, 
suits. Of the flint corn I have had no experience. A few day ^ 1^ ^ 
and before the corn has| come up, ^ km the weed seeds which will be 
“ Thomas y Sm °° 11i 1 !!f s ‘ We should repeat this harrowing every two or three 
sprouting y ml * W h en we should start the cultivator and f ill iw 
days, until we see the j 10 , The cultivator sho uld be kept going as late 
with the smoo i » nTld the smoothing harrow can be used with profit until 
into July as possible, and the smootni^ some corn by 
the corn is four or five inches high We wm derive fr0 m its 
using the harrow as late as ns, b est t o cu t the corn for 
use will by far it forms au ear. The 
summer use is after it has , . ,, valuable substances which 
stalk, at this stage of for feed than if 
enter into the composite) desirab \ e to cut the corn some hours before we 
cut at an earlier period. s we ffe t ldd 0 f a great quantity 
teed it, and suffer it to wilt by which when thus wilted, 
0f Tl?f 1 n^he ^actthaVf ermentatioifof the juices has proceeded to some 
probably from the fact _ full feed of fodder every even- 
extent, rhave ^ a little bran. I think it is 
ing after milking. In the “°^ “ 8 to l lve our C ows, as some do, two half 
better ^ on this latter system, not being satisfied in the 
teedsaday. The cows loiter around the fences expecting 
morning, and expectmganottofeed^wu ^ ^ ^ a full feed in the 
the evenmg mea .^ would in the morning get what food they 
eVe r^m n their pTsturls^MolTer, the bran is quickly eaten in the morn- 
lng!and°the^ cow reach^ the pasture while the dew is on the grass, and be- 
t0r w 1 ter"for our ^ws° water^abumkmt supply, clear, cool and fresh, is 
Water fo1 ’ the supply of milk during drought, as food, or even 
as essential to keeping up t PP^ st o£ corn fodder, we may 
more so. We may reeu o nn^ihle care of them, but if they 
give them bran and meal, we may take all nk whelb where 
have not water conveniently situatedThis is a very 
and as often as they piease, all our efforts^U b^ ^ weathei% cattle 
important matter, and s ioii^ d g wiU snffer intensely if deprived of 
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