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at seventy cents a bushel, would cost about $20.27. I did 

 not make a great deal, but I got my corn-fodder. I got at 

 the rate of two or three tons to the acre of corn-fodder, which 

 I suppose is worth some six or eight dollars a ton, perhaps 

 more. I consider that it is worth more to me for my milch 

 cows. I calculated to get one hundred bushels of corn to the 

 acre, and I believe that if we had had as much rain as we had 

 in 1874, I should have had one hundred bushels of corn to 

 the acre. Here is a specimen, gentlemen, of some of the 

 corn that I raised. 



Question. Is that a fair specimen? 



Dr. Wakefield. I calculated to pick out as good ears as 

 there were to be found. I did not bring down cow corn to 

 show. The seed of this corn I obtained of Mr. Hadwen. He 

 knows more about it than I do. It was the best corn that 

 I knew of when I sent for that seed. I had seen and known 

 something about his corn. I am inclined to think that if I 

 had seen Captain Moore's corn, before I planted, I should have 

 had his ; but I don't know ; I want to get the best I can. 



Then, cabbage. I manured a quarter of an acre for cabbage, 

 at a cost of $10 for the fertilizer, and raised 1,150 heads. We 

 have an appraisal made every year of our products, and those 

 cabbages were appraised this year at four cents a head. Some 

 of them, I think, were larger than any you can see in the hall 

 upstairs, and I should be very glad to buy cabbages as large 

 as those at four cents a head, to feed to my cows. But that 

 is the appraisal, and the product of that quarter of an acre 

 amounted to $46. The yield per acre was 4,600 heads, 

 which, at four cents a head, would amount to $184. Barn- 

 yard manure, at the rate of eight cords to the acre, would 

 cost $64. The fertilizer would cost $40. Now, those cabbages 

 stand in the field to-day ; some of them I have put into the 

 ground, heads down; but while they stood there, no man, 

 unless he had more skill than anybody I know, could have 

 picked out the cabbages manured with barn-yard manure 

 from those manured with chemicals. 



Now for the grass. I have no definite data to give you in 

 regard to that, only to say that I have used a ton of this 

 fertilizer this year. I have used it on my lands, and I have 

 used it on my grass fields, where I did not want to put 



