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the higher the cultivation, the lower the price of the corn 

 per bushel, as a rule. I know that -corn can be grown for 

 twenty cents a bushel under the most favorable conditions ; 

 but it cannot be grown for twenty cents a bushel in the way 

 that farmers usually grow it. 



I will not at this time attempt to go into the discussion 

 of the general subject of growing corn, but merely wish to 

 add my testimony to what has been said. I abhor raising 

 weeds among corn or any other crop. I do not believe that 

 corn will thrive with weeds as well as without ; and, after a 

 crop of corn has been well cultivated, the expense of pulling 

 the few weeds that would otherwise go to seed is hardly 

 worth taking into account. 



I desire to add my testimony to the value of corn-fodder. 

 I think where hay is worth fifteen dollars a ton, well-saved 

 and well-cured corn-fodder is worth ten dollars. There is 

 no question that as good milk can be made from well-cured 

 corn-fodder as from good hay: consequently, I grow corn 

 right in the city of Worcester, and on land that is within a 

 radius of a mile and a half of the city-hall ; and I grow it 

 because I think I can grow it to better profit than any other 

 crop, as far as I want to go in that direction. I believe 

 that, for farmers who want to use corn on their farm, it is 

 the most profitable hoed crop that they can grow. And 

 there is one other point : if a farmer cannot grow all the 

 corn he wants to use on his farm (and I notice one thing, 

 Mr. Chairman, that farmers who buy corn somehow or other 

 always have money to pay for it), it comes very convenient 

 to bridge over a "corner "or a "boom "gotten up by the 

 speculators. When corn is high, I am very sure to carry 

 my own corn to mill; and, when corn is low, I keep it in 

 store. 



Mr. Sedgwick (of West Cornwall, Conn.). In 1869 and 

 1870 I was engaged in the production of milk for the New- 

 York market, and raised a large quantity of corn-fodder to 

 feed to my stock. In the winter of 1869 I put a steam- 

 apparatus into my barn, and bought horse-power machinery 

 to cut up my stalks, and fed my herd of thirty-five cows 

 with corn-stalks cut wp, and an average of two quarts of 

 meal and four quarts of bran for each cow, mixed in with a 

 bushel of the stalks, and steamed. I fed this for some time, 



