d']S STATE BOARD OF AGPaCULTURE. 



should not be sold off the funii. The most profitable way to soil corn is to 

 convert it into beef, pork, niiuton, and wool, and sell these products. It is a 

 question with some farmers whether corn can be fed with profit at the present 

 prices. I think it can if fed to tiie right kind of animals, for it makes a great 

 difference what kind of an animal eats it. It is a ruinous practice to sell corn 

 off the farm. Better buy it than sell, in order to keep up the fertility of our 

 farms. I will now close by giving a few figures in regard to the cost of rais- 

 ing a bushel of corn : 



For the use of the land per acre §5 00 



Plowing 1\ acres per day at ^2.00 per acre 1 33 



Dragging once.. 20 



Marking both ways 20 



Seed four quarts _. 13 



Planting at the rate of 2{r acres per day, per hand at 81.00 - 40 



Dragging the corn twice 50 



Cultivating four times, 35c per acre _ 1 40 



Husking and cribbing per acre 1 25 



Total cost of one acre §10 48 



Fodder estimated above cost of cutting _ 3 00 



Reduces the cost to.. S7 58 



An average crop of GO bushels per acre — 60 bushels 7 58 



Cost per bushel, $0.12.63. 



By this calculation a crop of corn averaging sixty bushels per acre costs a 

 fraction over twelve and one-half cents per bushel. In this calculation labor 

 has been estimated at one dollar per day, including board and team at the 

 same price ; the cultivating at the rate of four acres i)er day, which can be 

 done with the double shovel plow, and one horse; whereas if the double culti- 

 vator is used tlie cost will still be less. The crop estimated at sixty bushels, 

 which can easily be raised on most of our best corn lands with proper cul- 

 tivation. 



DISCUSSION. 



F. A. (rulley. — How do you save your seed? 



Mr. Card. — I select the best ears while husking; these I spread on a lloor 

 where there is warmth underneath. 



Do you plant all the com that there is on the ear? 



Mr. Gard. — (Jenerally I do, but if I find imperfect grains on the tip of the 

 car I do not plant them. 



Mr. Hathaway said he was the originator of wiiat was called the " Hatha- 

 way corn." It was the result of crossing two varieties of early Dent. He 

 continued to select year after year, those ears that came nearest his ideal of 

 perfection. He sent a sample of his seed corn two years ago to the college 

 farm, and last year they had sent for five bushels of it, and the yield, accord- 

 ing to the Prof, of Agriculture, was sixty bushels of shelled corn to the acre. 



This corn matures early and I do not care to plant till the 20th or 25th of 

 May. I have had it ripen thoroughly when planted in June. 



Capt. Hendryx was of the opinion that generally speaking sutiicient care 

 was not exercised in planting corn. 



