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York State. I find the York State corn is the corn for us to depend on in 

 this country. It is a small ear, but it is reliable. I can't succeed with the 

 King Phillip or the Button; they don't get ripe with me. I had corn one 

 season on new breaking, and while it did better than I expected, it was not a 

 paying crop. I have had corn on the second and third plowing, when I was- 

 quite well satisfied, but I think we cannot raise corn here, at the present time, 

 at least for market; nevertheless I cannot afford to do without growing corn 

 for use on the farm to feed through the winter to stock, and the stalks I 

 consider worth as much to feed as the corn. In preparing ground for corn I 

 have a roller follow the plow before harrowing at all; then I harrow thor- 

 oughly and then put the roller on again. I generally roll twice and then 

 plant my corn. While I have not given corn raising without manure a thor- 

 ough trial, yet, as far as I have tried it, it has satisfied me so that I intend to» 

 raise corn, or at least try it, every year. 



Dr. Beal : In this section do you plant any deeper than they do further 

 south ? 



Mr. Evans: About the same. I like to plant early, so that the corik 

 won't dry out, so I plant about two or two and a half inches deep — deep 

 enough so that it won't get touched with the frost when first starting. I plow 

 seven or eight inches for corn, roll thoroughly, plant about four feet apart^, 

 and intend to get about three stalks in a hill. 



Mr. Sewell ; I have had twelve years' experience in raising corn in a corir 

 country, and find that it requires a good deal of attention when it is young or it- 

 will not amount to much. The quicker I can get into my corn with the cultiva- 

 tor the better success I have. I found this out in cultivating forty acres of corn;, 

 in going to the back part of my field to' get a drink of water I kept the culti- 

 vator going each time as I went back and forth over and over the same piece 

 of ground, and it made ten inches difference in the growth of that corn com- 

 pared with the piece by the side of it that I didn't go through so much (or' 

 on the average so early), and it made about one-fourth difference in the' 

 length of the ears when I came to harvest it. I think in this country because' 

 the weeds don't grow, the farmers don't go through their corn soon enough; 

 the earth needs moving whether there are weeds or not. 



Mr. Kose: My experience with corn is very much like Mr. Evans'. I 

 have tried four different kinds. I sent to D. M. Ferry for the earliest corn 

 he knew anything of and he sent me what he called the Early Compton. I 

 planted it beside our celebrated York State corn, before referred to, and when 

 the New York corn was in silk and tassel the other hadn't got started yet;, 

 it merely had a big leaf and that was all. I planted three inches deep May 

 1st to May 15th. It is not a paying crop, but as Mr. Evans says, I am going: 

 to raise it for the sake of the stalks and to have some corn on hand. 



Mr. Evans: I planted the 8th of June last year, and raised the sample- 

 exiiibited on the platform. 



Dr. Beal: When did you harvest? 

 ^ Mr. Evans: After the frost had cut the leaves; I can't remember the- 

 time. It was later than the first of September. 



Dr. Kedzie : I was here during the State fair the 20th to the 22d of Sep- 

 tember and the frost was here the night before I got here. 



Mr. Evans: It seems to me it was not as late as that, but the frost had cut. 

 some of the leaves very much. 



Mr. G. W. Love then presented the following paper on 



