THE GROWING OF CORN. Ill 



am satisfied that a man can raise corn here in Massachusetts 

 which will compete with the West, provided he makes proper 

 use of the fodder. There is where the whole point, it 

 seems to me, lies, — whether we can use the fodder to advan- 

 tage. I am not willing to say that I think I can raise it so 

 cheaply as the doctor has spoken of; but I do think that I 

 can raise it cheaper than I can buy it. I believe that nearly 

 every Massachusetts farmer who has warm land can do the 

 same thing. 



Dr. Wakefield. I have raised the Wauregan corn, and 

 the doctor has given a description of that corn, and how he 

 cultivates it. I wanted to know if I could get any other 

 corn that would be more profitable than that. I saw the 

 specimens in this room to which the committee have given 

 the premiums; but I could not find out how that corn was 

 cultivated. There was, however, one kind of corn that 

 struck me very favorably, and I found out these facts in 

 regard to it: it is the Milliken corn. I have no interest in 

 that corn, only, if it is better than the corn I have been 

 cultivating, I want to know it. It appears that the boys 

 in Maine, stimulated by the premium that was offered by 

 Mr. Allen, raised a hundred and sixty-two bushels of that 

 Milliken corn to the acre. That is certainly a good, fair 

 yield. A gentleman here says that he planted some of this 

 Milliken corn, in a town in this State, on the twenty-seventh 

 day of JVIay of this year, and gathered it the last of August ; 

 and he says it was ripe two weeks before lie gathered it. 

 Now, that grew in about eighty days. That, in an ordinary 

 corn year, is a safe crop. If you can get it in eighty days, 

 you are pretty sure of a crop ; and, if you can get a 

 hundred and sixty-two bushels to the acre, you are pretty' 

 sure of a good crop. There are two good qualities. He 

 told me how he raised that corn, how he cultivated it, how 

 he manured it, and what he got to the acre this year. He 

 cultivated half an acre. I don't remember the exact amount 

 that he got; but I made up my mind that that was the best 

 corn for me. With the facts that I had before me, I made 

 up my mind that that was a better corn than the W_auregan. 

 Now, if the gentlemen here will come forward and tell us 

 how these other specimens of corn were cultivated, how long 

 it took them to grow, what kind of seed it was, and can 



