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of less value for horses. From twenty-five to seventy bushels of seed are 
obtained per acre.”’ ‘‘N. E. Farmer,’’ 1825, 4. 142. 
‘© In Morris County, New Jersey, forty bushels of seed is the average 
produce of an acre, which equals oats in value, as an article of food for 
cattle or horses.’? ‘‘N. E. Farmer,’’ 1825, 4. 252. 
‘‘In the valley of the Connecticut River, the seed is considered of 
about two-thirds the value of oats, and mixed with corn makes an ex- 
cellent provender for the fattening either of swine or neat cattle. The 
return of seed is somewhat precarious; but often it is abundant, and will 
more than pay the whole expense of cultivation and preparing the crop 
for market.’? Henry Colman, in ‘‘ N. E. Farmer,’’ 1835, 14. 12. 
A few years later a New Jersey farmer expresses his views as follows :— 
‘¢ The seed makes excellent food for hogs and cattle. Its nutritious qual- 
ity may easily be discovered from the fine color and taste which it imparts 
to butter from the cows which are fed on it. The best way to use the 
grain is to grind it with a portion of oats, — say about.one-third of oats — 
to two-thirds of the seed. Indeed it is so hard and flinty, that it should 
always be ground before feeding it to any kind of stock. Good broom- 
corn seed weighs about fifty pounds to the bushel. Its value compared to 
oats may be considered as about half as much again; so that, should the 
market-price of oats be, say twenty-five cents per bushel, the broom-corn 
seed would be worth thirty seven and a half cents.”? ‘‘N. E. Farmer,’’ 
1839, 18. 131. 
‘« A crop of seed is obtained about once in four years, and forty bushels 
of seed are considered a good yield. A respectable farmer in Franklin 
County informs me that in one instance he obtained one hundred and fifty 
bushels of seed to the acre. . . . The seed is sold at two-thirds the price 
of oats, and is ordinarily of the same weight. It sometimes weighs more 
than oats, and by some persons is more highly valued. It is by many 
esteemed good feed for the fattening of swine, when mixed with other 
grain. Some have used it for fattening cattle and horses, but it is not ap- 
proved.’? Henry Colman in his Fourth Report of the Agriculture of Mas-_ 
sachusetts, Boston, 1841, pp. 30, 32. 
‘¢Mr. Albert Hibbard of North Hadley, Mass., tells us he makes use of 
all the seed of his broom-corn to fatten sheep; that they are very fond 
of it, and will fatten better on it than on Indian corn. We have ourselves 
often raised the corn for the sake of the brush, but have never made much 
account of the seed, though hens are always fond of it. Hogs, too, will 
eat it, though we think it has seldom been converted to meal for hogs. 
Mr. Hibbard thinks the broom-corn seed more valuable for sheep than 
oats or any grain, pound for pound.”’ ‘‘N. E. Farmer,’ 1845, 23. 243, | 
U. S. Patent Office Report for 1846, p. 189. 
In the Mohawk valley ‘‘the seed is excellent for fattening hogs. 
They eat it greedily and thrive on it as well, if not better, than on Indian 
corn. ‘The seed, when good, is worth in its rough state as much as oats to» 
feed.”” U.S. Patent Office Report for 1846, p. 189. 
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