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husks are in many localities well worth carefal saving, as they 

 bring a good price for making mattrasses. 



Raising, Selecting, and Preserving Seed Corn. As with 

 the other grains, if we would raise the best corn, we must care- 

 fully attend to the seed. Select the best ear from all stalks 

 bearing two ears, and plant an acre by itself, giving it extra 

 cultivation and manure; continue this process from year to year 

 and you will get two ears on nearly every stalk. We would 

 say here that two-eared crops require more manure, and if you 

 cannot give this, you had better continue to plant the one-eared 

 variety, selecting always the finest ears. These should be 

 secured before freezing, and hung up iaa protected room where 

 they will not freeze. Three, four, and even six ears to the 

 stalk can be raised on the same principle as above described. 



The King Philip, Dutton, Tuscarora, Baden, and Flint, are 

 the common varieties of the East; the South and West have 

 their own peculiar varieties, known as the southern and western 

 corn. Any of the common varieties can be improved by careful 

 cultivation and selection of seed. 



Broom Corn does not properly belong here, but will be 

 more likely to be seen in this connection. It requires the 

 best of soil and cultivation, and is not considered profitable 

 except on a large scale, and for a succession of years. It is 

 drilled in rows three feet apart, and from six to ten inches apart 

 in the rows, and from six to ten seeds in a place; cultivate until 

 it is five or six feet high throwing a little dirt to the rows every 

 time. The heads are bent down, and the brush cut before it is 

 fully ripe, and the crop cured under cover. The seed is of 

 some value as fodder, and the stalks for litter, while the brush 

 brings from $200 to $300 per ton. One ton to three acres is a 

 fine crop. 



Legal Weight. The legal weight, per bushel, of the dif- 



