ON TOPPING THE STALKS OF INDIAN CORN.

 What is the effect upon the crop from the practice of topping the stalks or strip ping the blades of corn? I shall refrain from giving my own opinion in the case, but shall quote some authorities and state- ments, which certainly have weight and which with many will be deemed deci- sive.

 In late tour through neighboring coun- ty to visit some farms proposed for premi- ums, the subject came under discussion in field, where part of the corn had been topped early in August, and another part had been recently topped. This was the 9th September. The farmer himself, up- on being questioned before examination as to the expediency of early topping, answer ed, that in his opinion it was not injurious to the crop. Others of the gentlemen a. greed with him, maintaining that the office of the top-stalk being solely the impregna- ton ofthe ear, it might be removed with out injury when that office was rendered, which might be supposed to be the case as soon as the ear was well formed, and the silk beginning to change. Upon q careful examination of different parts of the field, however, I believe it was generally agreed, and admitted by the farmer himself, though opposed to his previous opinion, that the ears on the corn recently topped were bet ter filled out,' than on that where the top- stalks were cut early.

 On visiting the farm of another neat and skilful husbandman we proposed the same inquiry. He replied that he had made fair experiment, having in the same field, and side by side, topped portion eaIly, topping another portion late, and left a third portion untouched until harvest and that the result was very decidedly in favor of that which had not been cut, and pro- portionably in favor ofthas which had been late topped.

 It may be said that the increased value of the tops for fodder when cut in green rath- CT than in a dry state is an equivalent for the loss in the product of grain. will not presume to decide this though my own experience, and value my corn fod- der when we'll cured almost as much as my English Hay, is in favor of cutting up the whole field by the roots, when l cannot find an ear which is not too hard to roast and allowing it to ripen in the shock; in which case the butt or lower end being cured in green state and while the sap is retained in it, becomes almost as valuable as the top stalks.

 ,Ooc'!sty of the lBe0cer-' An old Trav- eiior, in Pouls0h's Philadelphia Daily, glses tneiollowing account of a young Bea- yer winch he himself owned:

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