BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pab.Doc. 



Question. How much do you get from an acre . governor ? 



Governor Hoard. That depends upon the land. I am 



not growing corn now. I have grown as high as one hundred 



and twenty bushels of ears to the acre on ordinary land. I 

 never did grow one of those very extraordinary crops. 



Wm. Bancroft (of Chesterfield). I would like to ask 

 Mr. Newhall how much he get-. 



Mr. Newhall (of Conway). I have raised the past 

 3on, on two and a half acres of sward land, with eleven 

 hundred pounds offish and potash to the acre, four hundred 

 and fifty bushels of cars and eight tons of fodder. I thought 

 that was a very heavy crop, considering the amount of fer- 

 tilizer put on the land. The land had been mowed six years 

 without any fertilizer. 



Mr. Grixxell (of Greenfield). Do you think that corn 

 fertilizes as readily where it is sown in the row as when 

 planted in hills ? 



Governor Hoard. Yes, sir : I think it docs. I was much 

 -truck with one point that the professor made. Supposing 

 I procure seed from Air. Louis up in northern Wisconsin, I 

 being in the southern part of the State, and plant his seed 

 and my seed in alternate rows the coming year, and then 

 plant the seed from that crop alone, — what would be the 

 result ? 



Professor Bailey. I think the best result would come 

 from the new seed which comes from the admixture. 



Questiox. You would plant those seeds together, rather 

 than in a separate field ? 



Governor Hoard. I would plant my seed and the ft 

 seed together, so that they would fertilize each other. Pro- 

 3or Bailey said that experience has shown that the 

 alts were attained in crossing between families of the 

 same type or line. Professor Bailey is sound on that point. 

 I wish to bring forward the following illustrations in sup- 

 port of that statement. 1 will take among men the Scotch- 

 [rish family, both coming from a similar tribe, the ancient 

 Celts. There are no more virile and powerful men to-day 

 in intellect and impressibility upon men than the See" - 

 Irish type. You ere-- a Scotchman with a German or with 

 a Frenchman, and you get no such result ; but the moment 



