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much coufidence in it, he said he was going to plant it anoth- 

 er year. He was the only one that I knew of who contin- 

 ued to plant it, because it failed so universally. He planted 

 it a second year, and it did better ; and he continued planting 

 it for several years, and it improved so much, that the yield 

 was about what was promised for it when it was first brought 

 nut. He got about sixty, or seventy bushels to the acre. 

 But it is well known in Bristol County, that, when that corn 

 was introduced, it was a failure, and very rarely would you 

 find a person who planted it the second time. I have tried 

 strawberry-plants that were originated, for instance, on the 

 Hudson River, that in my vicinity were complete failures ; 

 whereas I know that where they originated they are a first- 

 class berry. I used to raise onions years ago, and I sent over 

 to Danvers and bought the seed. Almost everybody who 

 raised onions, clear down to Bristol and Warren, wanted to 

 raise Danvers onions : they had heard a great deal about 

 them. The first year I planted them, I was very much dis- 

 appointed that they did not come up to my idea of what a 

 perfect onion should be by any means ; but I made the .best 

 selection I could, and raised my own seed for several years. 

 The last year that I raised onions I raised about five hun- 

 dred bushels, and they w>gre perfect almost. B}^ making 

 judicious selections, I improved them, I thought, very much. 

 They jdelded almost double the fifth year what they did 

 the first year ; and that was the experience of all the vege- 

 table-growers about there. It goes to show, to my mind, 

 that any fruit or seed or plant does better on the gr&und 

 where it originates. 



INIr. Charles W. Cushing (of Hingham). I take this 

 opportunity to invite the gentlemen present to look at my 

 corn on the table in the hall below. I got the seed from the 

 Daniel Webster farm twenty-five or twenty-seven years ago, 

 and have planted it ever since. If gentlemen will look at 

 the sample, and then come and look at the farm it was raised 

 on, they will have a chance to see whether it has deterio- 

 rated. The seed is selected at husking-time. We must 

 rely on facts in these discussions ; and the only way to get at 

 these facts is to go right on the ground, and see where the 

 cattle, the hogs, and so on, were raised. 



Mr. Paul. I have been so much interested in the papei 



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