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hay, and for that reason, I estimate it as worth $16.00 a ton 

 when hay is worth $24.00 a ton. 



Dr. Baldwin. Have you not made an error in your esti- 

 mate of the comparative vahie of sweet corn and southern 

 white corn, or Maryland corn, for feed ? I understood you to 

 say that you thought the sweet corn was the most profitable. 

 Have you found that to be practically true ? 



Mr. Day. In reply to that, I will say, that I have always 

 considered that what the human family like, the animal crea- 

 tion relish and like ; and I believe that 'a cow, an ox, or a 

 sheep relishes the stover from sweet corn as much more 

 highly than the stover of southern corn, as the human family 

 do sweet corn over and above the common or the southern 

 corn. I believe it is altogether more rich in nutritious matter. 



Mr. Low. When I first went to New Jersey to teach school > 

 I was much surprised to find that the farmers did not feed 

 any hay to their cattle ; they wintered them entirely on corn 

 fodder. I am now milking seven cows, and I find that corn 

 fodder makes more butter than anything else that I feed. 



Mr, Hart, of West Cornwall. Our soil is somewhat differ- 

 ent from the soil which Mr. Day and Mr. Yeomans work upon, 

 in respect to the cultivation of which they have given such 

 intelligent directions. Our practice is not to plow very deep. 

 In my own practice, I have secured the best results by plow- 

 ing in the spring ; breaking up the turf to the depth of about 

 five inches — putting my manure on previously to plowing — 

 and then, as the turf decays, it furnishes a large amount of 

 vegetable matter that is in just the condition to feed the corn 

 as it comes along and requires it in its various stages of 

 growth. I am not raising corn now at all, being engaged in 

 the production of milk, and supplementing my hay crop with 

 sowed corn corn-fodder ; but my crop, when I planted corn, 

 exceeded sixty bushels to the acre, and twice I have been 

 above a hundred bushels. I think I took the first premium 

 that was awarded by the State Society for a crop of corn, 

 which was one hundred and two bushels. I am decidedly of 

 the opinion that it is better to raise a good crop on one acre 

 than a poor crop on three acres. I think the present results 



