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manure, or without it? If without farm-yard manure, what 

 proportion of chemicals would you use for a good crop of 

 corn ? 



Professor Sanboen. Well, I shall apply them to thirty 

 or forty acres of corn next year without any manure, but I 

 have not made up the list. I shall apply about half the 

 nitrogen that the crop is supposed to take from the soil. I 

 shall apply probably about two hundred pounds of nitrate 

 of soda to the acre, of dissolved bone-black probably about 

 seven hundred to eight hundred pounds, and of muriate of 

 jDotash probably about three hundred pounds to the acre. 

 That would be all the materials that seven or eio'ht tons 

 of dry corn and fodder get to the acre. I am expecting 

 to get back in the crop about fifty per cent of what I apply 

 the first year. 



Mr. Peatt. Do- I understand that is for fodder, or a 

 crop of corn ? 



Professor Sanboen. I do not have any husking. It all 

 goes into the silo. I do no grinding. There is a gain by 

 this method. The husking does not add one dollar to its 

 value. You spend twenty-five per cent of the value of the 

 crop in manipulation, and you have nothing left. 



Mr. Peatt. At what stage of its growth do you harvest 

 that crop? 



Professor Sanboen. As near maturity as possible. It is 

 my contention that a crop grows up to maturity, and I take 

 no crop off short of that time. 



Secretary Sessions. Do you aim for a crop of ears ? 



Professor Sanboen. We aim for a crop of ears. 



Mr. Bliss. I want to say a word in regard to removing 

 bushes and stones from our land. As a matter of fact, we 

 know that the most valual)le land we have on our farms is 

 the low land, 1)ut this low land is the land that is left to 

 grow up to bushes and trees. It has been my 611011; in the 

 last few years to bring under cultivation this low land. I 

 have laid from one thousand to fifteen hundred feet of drain 

 tile a 3'ear in this low land, and I find that it is the most 

 profitable work that I do on the place. Some of my neigh- 

 bors have used refuse substance from the gas works, some- 

 thing like lime, for killing trees. It is efiectual in Idlling 



