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Lands of the Slave and the Free

CHAPTER V
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Wheat stubble is pastured slightly; the clover, if mowed, is cut in the middle of June; if pastured, the cattle are turned in about the 1st of May.
Pumpkins are raised with the Indian corn, and hogs fattened on them; during the summer they are turned into clover pasture.

Indian corn and pumpkins are planted in May, and harvested in October; the leaf and stalk of the Indian corn are cut up for fodder, and very much liked.
Oats and barley are not extensively cultivated.
The average crop of Indian corn is from fifty to sixty bushels, and of wheat, from twenty-five to thirty per acre.

The pasture land supports one head to one and one-third acre.

Grass-fattened cattle go to market from September to November, fetching 2-1/4d.

per lb.


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