60 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



are better to raise seventy-five bushels on one acre than to 

 raise the same quantity on three acres, and the results in the 

 subsequent crops of vegetables, cereals, and grass are more 

 valuable than those following smaller crops. 



The practice usually is to raise corn the first year after 

 turning over, following with oats. Formerly, our farmers used 

 to seed down with spring wheat, but that has been dropped. 

 Usually, in my own experience, the crop following, oats, has 

 averaged, until within a few years, about sixty-five bushels to 

 the acre. 



On the question of sowed corn, I am decidedly iu favor 

 of sweet corn. I planted the past season a couple of acres of 

 sweet corn, and something more than that of southern corn, 

 and the result with the sweet corn has been very satisfactory. 

 I should not estimate the stover from ripened corn as valuable 

 as Mr. Day found it, but I think the quantity from a crop of 

 sixty bushels would exceed the quantity he gives. 



Mr. Day. Allow me to make one correction. I supposed, 

 all the time, that that stover was to be well cured and well 

 taken care of. I do not mean that it should be cut and care- 

 lessly or slovenly stacked, and left out exposed to all the 

 changes of weather until the first of November, when I will 

 agree with anybody it must be comparatively worthless. 



Mr. Hart. Our best farmers believe in doing what they 

 do well ; they think it pays the best. Grass is our specialty, 

 and the object of our best farmers is to raise the largest 

 quantity of grass of the best quality they can. They com- 

 mence by clearing the stones from their fields in most in- 

 stances, planting with corn, cultivating the year following 

 with some cereal that is best adapted to seeding lands, and 

 then following with grass. The result of this method with 

 us — the dairy business being our specialty — is, I think, better 

 than any other. 



Question. About how thick would you plant corn for sixty 

 bushels to the acre ? 



Mr. Hart. I planted three acres, the rows three feet apart 

 each way. The result was sixty bushels of shelled corn to 

 the acre. 



