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Corn Fodder

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Parent Issue
Day
5
Month
June
Year
1874
Copyright
Public Domain
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A Mr. öiminons writes to tüo lieruiantown Teleyraph that, as late as June 3, he drilled tweve quarts of cora in rows two feet apart, on a third of an acre uf land, and applied one-and a-half corda of manure aud cultivated twice, a man íollowing with a hand-hoe. The cora grew ten i'eet high. Cut up just as tassels began to blossom, it made 300 bandles, averaging twenty pounds gieen, and eight pounds dry, being at the rate of 7,200 pounda dry fodder per acre - which he judged to be worth more per ton than hay for feeding cows. Anotbor farmer in Peekskill, Ñ. Y., drilled two bushels of corn on two-and-a half acres of meadow-land after he had cut the hay, covering the drills with fresh cow manure, cultivated four times up to August 10, and cut with siokle September 10, laying corn crosswise of rows to dry for five days, then tied it up and shocked mi adjoining grass land. He then replowcd the coru ground and seeded again to timothy. The stalks were tall and slender, and eateu cloan without cutting. There weve eiglit tons of corn fodder.

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Subjects
Old News
Michigan Argus