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Mr. BicKFORD. I have had a little experience, and gen- 

 erally sow about three acres of sweet corn. We manure it 

 broadcast, and harrow it well. Our corn is sowed in drills, 

 somewhat as you would sow turnips. It is easier than to sow 

 by hand broadcast. I generally keep about half or two-thirds 

 of it dry. I think we get as much as ten or twelve tons of 

 fodder from an acre. 



Dr. Lincoln. I want a little more light on this matter. I 

 wish to know if it is considered that it will pay to buy the 

 Stockbridge fertilizer at twelve dollars an acre to raise this 

 fodder corn. I don't think it is well to plow a good piece of 

 grass land to sow the Hungarian grass seed on it. 



The Chairman. I will say to the doctor, I take a piece of 

 land that does not bear any hay, and I turn it over and put 

 the fertilizer on, and I raise a fair crop of Hungarian where 

 I should otherwise have got comparatively nothing. I do 

 not think it advisable to plow up good grass land for the 

 sake of sowing Hunofarian, but I hold that it is valuable for a 

 piece of ground bearing scarcely anything, and in many cases 

 will pay a farmer well. 



