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September 6, 1895, your committee visited my farm and selected, 

 measured and staked out two average rods, one of Flint and one of 

 Dent Corn. These we left standing, and, Oct. 19, your committee 

 again visited me, and gathered, husked and weighed the corn on these 

 two rods. The rod of Flint corn yielded 60>y pounds, and the rod of 

 Dent corn yielded 61^ pounds of dry sound ears of corn. The average 

 of the two, 61 pounds, represents a yield of 9,760 pounds of ears, which 

 means 122, 130 or 140 bushels of shelled corn per acre, according as 

 you allow 70, 75 or 80 pounds of ears to the bushel. Your committee 

 fixes the standard at 80 pounds. This would indicate a crop of 122 

 bushels of shelled corn to the acre, which, I think, is rather below than 

 above the actual yield. For my own satisfaction, I have saved, weighed 

 and hung up, several lots of the corn, and propose to reweigh them in 

 one, and again in two months time, and then to shell them and weigh 

 both corn and cobs. 



The stover on the two rods selected and harvested by your committee 

 was, of course, so tattered, frosted, and weather beaten, as to be practi- 

 cally worthless. To ascertain the value of the stover generally, I took 

 a stock at random on the same piece of which the following is an 

 analysis. 



Oct. 23, 1895, one stock Flint corn, Canada Improved, husked and 

 brought to the house by self and Joseph Carp, and weighed in his 

 presence, 8 bundles, 147 stalks, weight of corn 53.^^ pounds sound dry 

 ears, weight of stover 64 pounds dry well cured stover. Yield per acre 

 9,806 pounds ears of corn, 1 1,728 pounds, or five tons, 1,728 pounds of 

 iodder, each stock contained 48 hills. There are 55 hills in a square 

 rod. 



I think it is proper to say that, with the other conditions the same, a 

 somewhat greater yield of corn would have been obtained, with less 

 labor, if there had been only two-thirds as many stalks. I am led to 

 this conclusion by the fact that, where there were only one or two stalks 

 in a hill, the corn was much larger than when there were three ; and in 

 rare instances, where there were four stalks in a hill, there was no well- 

 developed corn. 



At the Hampshire society's fair at Amherst, Sept. 24 and 25, I exhib- 

 ited three traces of corn from this field, and was awarded one first, and 

 one second premium, and a gratuity equal to second premium. This 

 was in strong competition. 1 have also sent four traces of this corn, and 

 with each trace, six stalks bearing twin ears, to the Atlanta exposition. 



