140 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



I grow certain crops ; and I am going to stick to them until I 

 perceive that there is more money in something else, and 

 then I am going to change immediately. I think that that is 

 the duty of all farmers. Mr. Paul stated in his remarks, that 

 he had usually produced those crops that would most readily 

 sell in the market to which he had access. I think that is 

 the duty of every one. That is what I carry on the business 

 of farming for. I farm it for the money I get out of it, and I 

 raise those crops that I think will produce the most money, 

 taking every thing into account. I don't mean a crop that 

 will impoverish the land, or any thing of that kind ; but the 

 crop that I can get the most money out of is the crop that I 

 raise. I think that Mr. Paul has changed, from time to time, 

 from one thing to another, just as I have ; and he has finally 

 settled down on growing what he does, for the reason that 

 there is more profit in those crops than in any others that he 

 can think of. I think that every farmer should decide for 

 himself whether he is growing those crops that have the 

 most monej^ in them ; and I would suggest to our New- 

 Hampshire friends that they think the matter over thor- 

 oughly before they decide that it is best for them to go to 

 raisino: corn. 



Now, Mr. Paul cultivates sixteen acres of ground. Pie is 

 an excellent cultivator, and he has given, as you perceive, 

 as good an account of his stewardship as it is possible, almost, 

 for any man to give. He cultivates, as I say, sixteen acres 

 of ground. Suppose he goes to raising corn, and raises six- 

 teen hundred bushels (which would be a generous crop) 

 ever}' year, at an expense of thirty-three cents a bushel. He 

 would still have twenty or twenty-three cents a bushel com- 

 ing to him for the corn he would raise, and he would get 

 three hundred and twenty dollars or three hundred and fifty 

 dollars every year for his corn-crop. He could not show any 

 such balance in his favor if he raised corn, as he does by rais- 

 ing something else. 



My notion is, that New-Hampshire people can raise some- 

 thing that will net them a greater profit than corn. I cannot 

 afford to raise corn. If I could get sixty bushels on every 

 acre of land I have, and could raise it, even for thirty-three 

 cents a bushel, I should go to the poor-house in three years. 



Mr. HUjNIPHKEY. I can live on it. 



