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the horse. Don't forget wood ashes, either; they are slow, 

 awfully slow, but when the leaves finally come out, the wood 

 ashes do their work, and you have a corn crib full of corn. 



I think I have given you enough for the present, and I 

 won't guarantee to answer all your questions. I am no expert 

 at all, — I just grow things because I love to. 



Question. What was the expense of sending sweet corn 

 to Paris ? 



Mr. FuLLERTON. I just mentioned that incidentally. The 

 expense was no consideration, and I don't know what it was. 

 An American over there wanted to show his French friends 

 what American sweet corn on the cob was, and a friend of his 

 asked me to try and get it through to them. I had shipped 

 ripe raspberries 380 miles, with, nine transfers, each box 

 wrapped in paraffine paper, and the. pint boxes came through 

 perfectly ; so I thought I could do the same thing with sweet 

 corn. I was afraid it would heat in the paraffine paper, on 

 account of the long time; so I made a cylinder of blotting 

 paper to go around each ear, put about seven ears in a basket, 

 and wrapped each basket in paraffine paper. I had it put in 

 the cold room, where the temperature is kept at from 36° to 

 40°, instead of in the ice box, where it would have frozen. 

 It took time to get it through the custom house, but the man 

 giving the dinner was so enthusiastic that he cabled, " Amer- 

 ican sugar corn arrived in excellent condition; just as sweet 

 as it used to be when I was a boy." All over Paris they are 

 preparing to raise sweet corn this year ; it has gone all over 

 Europe and all over England, just because somebod}' in this 

 country had nerve enough to ship some American sweet corn 

 to France. 



Mr. T. F. Palmer. From what I have heard, I gleaned 

 you are not a great believer in commercial fertilizer. 



Mr. FuLLERTON. No, sir ; I am not. 



Mr. Palmer. Do you believe plowing rye under and culti- 

 vating will take the place of manure ? 



Mr. FuLLERTON. No ; it will supplement it. I should get 

 all the manure I could, and supplement it with the green 



