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of the kind that have probably been made throughout the 

 country, and which assist in proving the importance of cook- 

 ing food. It will be noticed by the first experiment that one 

 bushel of dry corn will produce ten pounds of pork, which 

 may be taken as a fair average for the purpose of establishing 

 the value of corn when dry for feeding purposes. 



Mr. Gold exhibited some ears of corn, produced by Mr. B. 

 H. Andrews, of Waterbury, by crossing the Early Vermont, 

 Eai'ly Prolific, and Ohio dent corn. The ears were large and 

 well formed, and reported as very early. 



Dr. Baldwin. I should like to inquire of Mr. Day, which 

 he would prefer to undertake to do, to raise sixty bushels of 

 corn on one acre, or thirty bushels an acre on two acres? 



Mr. Day. I should decidedly prefer the sixty bushels. 

 I always go in for the largest crop. In the first place it does 

 not cost any more to plow an acre of ground to produce sixty 

 bushels than it does to plow an acre that will produce thirty 

 bushels, and it is so much more profitable to raise sixty bush- 

 els than it is thirty, that I have always adopted the maximum 

 crop, whenever I could get it. 



Dr. Baldwin. The getting it had something to do with my 

 question. How often do you get the sixty bushels ? 



Mr. Day, Well, sir, in the course of my cultivation, not 

 very often. Thirty, forty-five, and fifty bushels are my largest 

 crops. A few times in the course of my cultivation, I have 

 gone as high as seventy or eighty bushels. I consider, Mr. 

 Chairman, that the only way a man can cultivate a crop to 

 any profit is to cultivate for a maximum, and use every effort 

 to attain that end. I believe I have answered the doctor's 

 question. 



Dr. Baldwin. Have you not got the estimate of the fod- 

 der, $16.00 a ton, too high ? Can you reasonably expect to 

 get $2-1.00 worth from an acre of corn ? 



Mr. Day. My impression in regard to that is, that a ton 

 of stover well cured and well taken care of, is worth two- 

 thirds the price of English hay. I think it will produce as 

 much flesh, and as much or more milk, than that quantity of 



