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the coru was planted too thick. I don't know whether you gentle- 

 men liaA-e raised this particular variety of corn or not, but it is the 

 yellow kind. 1 planted it the second day of June which, in my lati- 

 tude, was late, but I was told that it would grow. It came up very 

 niceh', but when I went through to see it I saw some hills had only 

 two stalks in it and I left as high as four stalks in some hills, just 

 about enough to overbalance the number that had only two in. 

 I cultivated that and it made a splendid growth. In the first place, 

 it Avas a clay sub-soil and I did not put any manure on it. It was 

 a pasture field with quite heavy clover sod and in ninety days' time 

 that was just in the position the gentleman speaks of. I cut that 

 and cured it and husked it and I had one hundred bushels shelled 

 corn to the acre and I sold that corn for seed coru. It was at the 

 side of the road and I had letters about it. It is the same year I 

 raised four hundred bushels, besides filling the silo, and I want to 

 say if you don't raise corn you should do it. I don't believe there 

 is any place in Pennsylvania but what you can raise corn. It is a 

 cheap way to feed cattle. You can keep cows on about two cents 

 a day on corn and silage. We make a business of doing it. It will 

 cost you eight cents a day to keep them on timothy hay. If we 

 have buckwheat straw we feed that and we feed oats straw and I 

 keep my cows in all winter and they are gaining all the time. In 

 my section cows are dry from six to eight weeks. 



The SECRETARY: May I ask whether you mean they are gaining 

 in their milk production or in flesh? 



MR. CHUBBUCK: Inflesh. 



The SECRETARY: And giving milk all the time? 



MR. CHUBBUCK: There is not very much time lost, from six to 

 eight weeks. 



The SECRETARY: As a rule (here is not very much corn raised 

 in your county? 



MR. CHUBBUCK: As a rule they raise corn. It is a crop we 

 lay ourselves out to raise. AVe must have it. 



The SECRETARY: Tliere is a great deal of river bottom land 

 there but all that land is corn land. 



MR. FENSTEMAKER: I think it is a i)i ty that they don't pay 

 more attention to the naming of corn. I think the gentleman called 

 it the Mortgage Lifter. I had some of the same corn with the same 

 name and it did not mature. 



MR. CLARK: What is the average yield? 



