5| 15,612| 94| 34,760|
Papal Territories | 8,927| | 1,876| | 75,588|
Naples and Sicily | 18| | 10,066| | 101,489|
Austrian Territories | 90,540| | 45,748| | 73,966|
Malta and Gozo | 18,198| | 4,969| | 11,002|
Ionian Islands | 5,390| | 7,324| | 5,967|
Greece | 57,520| | 8,712| | 3,252|
Egypt | 12,767| | 71,808| | 127,692|
Turkish dominions, | | | | | |
including Wallachia,| | | | | |
Moldavia and Syria | 563,799| | 348,456| | 748,180|
Morocco | 760| | | | |
West Coast of Africa | 889| | 2,322| | |
B.N.A. Colonies | 1,645| 164| 1,530| | 4,377| 7
U.S. of America |1,170,154|100,859| 538,155|11,253| 295,978|9,522
Brazil | 1,253| | 468| | 725|
Other places | | | 1,756| | |
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|2,225,459|101,683|1,277,070|11,482|1,807,636|9,561
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(Parliamentary Paper, No. 14, Sess. 1852.)
The many excellent properties of Indian corn, as a wholesome
nutritious food, and the rich fodder obtained from the stalk and leaf
for the nourishment of cattle, invite more earnest attention from the
farmer and planter in the Colonies to its better and extended
cultivation.
Though the average quantity of grain from each acre in the United
States is not more than thirty or forty bushels, yet it is known that
with due care and labor 100 to 130 bushels may be obtained.
In feeding cattle little difference is discoverable between the
effects of Indian corn meal and oil-cake meal; the preference rather
preponderates in favor of the latter.
Corn cobs, ground with the grain, have advocates, but this food is not
relished, and swine decline it.
Indian corn contains about the same proportion of starch as oats
(sixty per cent.), but is more fattening, as it contains about nine or
ten per cent.
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