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fEdjdn Corn Broddcdst.-Ae correspondent of the American Farmer says: :. As to your inquiries relative to corn sown broadcast. for fodder, have had the experience of but one year, and am perfectly satisfied of its value. Ny horses have performed equally well as on fodder prepared or cured after the old plan. The apprehenslons you express, that the blade and top would be rendered val ueless, by desscation before the stalk could be sufficiently dried to save 1t from heating and spelling, &e., is groundless. I cut my corn just before the usual time for saving blades; 1t remained on the ground fer about 24 hours for the purpose of willing; was then taken up, bound into eommon-sized sheaves, and about five or six of them set up together on the butts ill place. It thus remained till sufficiently cured for slowing away in farm house. do not recollect the precise time occupied in curing, but top fodder has been So treated for years ia Caro- line county, and then put up in stacks. l. Is astonishing how much wet weather 1t will stand and yet be good fodder, if bound in sheaves, as aforesaid, and set up. Recolleet too, that the stalks of the broadcast corn are not larger than the stems of the tops of good corn, planted at the usual distance; and, if you were to resort to the old-fashioned fod- der house simply for curing, the matter could be as certainly accomplished in that way as in the ordinary curing of top-fodder. It is said, too, that the saccharine principle in corn resides near the bottom of the stalk, and of course this is all lost by the old method. cannot speak of the weight of the crop, but of this ! am cartain if xviT1 r,roduca r,O-a valuable food for stock, per acre, than any thing that has come under my view; 1t is accomplished with less labor and less pre- paraiion. T'he past year my seed was not properly covered, and the birds got much of the grain before it sprouted; there were many naked spots of several yards square, but, nevertheless, there were forty large ox-cart loads from a little over two acres: