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tion. I am not certain that I understand fully his position. 

 He says that the stover will pay for the cost of cultivation. 

 What I want to know is, whether he intends to include the 

 cost of fertilizers also, or simply the cost of cultivation? 



Mr. GoDDARD. I don't think I should hesitate to include 

 that. 



Mr. Ware. That being a fact, what does a bushel of 

 corn cost the farmer? 



Mr. GoDDARD. I have not figured it exactly, but I have 

 in my experience become satisfied that I cannot afford not to 

 raise it. 



Mr. Ware. Is it not evident that if the stover pays for 

 the cost of cultivation and fertilization, we get the corn for 

 nothing? That is it, isn't it? 



Mr. Goddard. I know very well from what I have heard 

 the gentleman say that he thinks he is able to demonstrate 

 that it will cost nothing. 



Mr. Ware. I want to know whether that is not your 

 position ? 



Mr. Goddard. Thfit is my opinion, but I have not gone 

 into figures, as I think you have. 



Mr. Ware. I only want to say that I am rejoiced that 

 so able a man as the gentleman who has presented this essay 

 has so fully demonstrated the position I took last year, 

 which was so vigorously attacked. It is evident to my 

 mind that the world moves, and that we as agriculturists 

 arc moving in the line of progress. 



Mr. Burgess. I would like to say a few words relative 

 to the com crop. All I can tell you is the experience I 

 have had on my own place. I had an opportunity of enter- 

 ing for premiums two pieces of corn this year. The land 

 for one of the pieces was plowed last fall, and about fifty 

 loads of barnyard manure to the acre put on. I call a load 

 what we draw out of our barnyard at this time of the year, 

 say twenty-five bushels. I plowed this piece late in the fall 

 for the reason that the land was clayey, very hard, and the 

 last time it was plowed, which was in the spring, it was 

 rather stubborn, and so I adopted this method. Right 

 alongside of it I left the green sward, and put the same 

 amount of manure on the sward early in the spring. That, 



