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thoroughly ripened corn from Delaware, or somewhere down 

 there, would grow, which is very rare, in my experience, with 

 Western corn. 



Mr. Wetherell. Has the Secretary tried any of the large 

 varieties of sweet corn for that purpose ? 



Mr. Gold. Yes, sir, in small quantities ; but the difficulty 

 in growing seed of the Evergreen corn and other varieties is 

 such that in our section of the State we should rarely get 

 enough of it to make sure of a crop. 



Mr. Wetherell. My farmer finds that sweet corn gives 

 better results than any other kind of corn as feed for stock. 



Mr. Webb. I raise but one kind of corn for sowing and 

 for the grain. I have what is called " the Pennsylvania 

 Dent." It is a yellow corn, with a white cob. 



Mr. Webster. In my experience, the fodder grown from 

 sweet corn has been the best I ever knew. 



Mr. Root. I have heard in this Convention that gentle- 

 men can raise one hundred bushels of shelled corn to the 

 acre. Which is the more valuable, that one hundred bushels 

 of shelled corn with the fodder, or a crop of sowed corn, on 

 the same ground ? 



Mr. Webb. My sowed corn is planted in rows about three 

 feet and six inches apart, and from four to six grains in a 

 hill, so that it will ear to some extent. From a little experi- 

 ence I had this fall, I am going to try two sowings. First, I 

 will set my machine so that it will plant once in four feet, about 

 four kernels, three feet and a half apart. Two weeks after- 

 wards, I will set it so it will sow between the existing rows. 

 In that way, by accident, I got a second crop, one above the 

 other, and I got a very large proportion of ears from the first 

 sowing ; the other tasseled out and made very excellent feed. 

 I have never had anything that would produce so much milk, 

 fed green, as that. It happened accidentally, but the result 

 was so satisfactory, that I am going to try it again, as an 

 experiment. 



