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trees and bushes, and it does not injure the soil after one or 

 two years. 



Mr. Clark. I think the professor was going on to state 

 what means he had used for eradicating these small bushes. 

 I would like to know about that. 



Professor Sanborn. I said where they were too small 

 to pull I simply cut them off, ploughed them out, and that 

 settled the question. 



Mr. French. I have increased the fertility of my farm 

 simply by keeping stock, and I find that the more stock I 

 keep the more I can keep from year to year. That is how 

 I have increased my stock from four cows up to fifty. 



Professor Sanborn. One gentleman asks if I put my 

 corn into the mow. I should, some of it. I should feed it 

 out whole to the cattle. It is known now that corn ground 

 is not much, if any, more effective than unground. Wher- 

 ever you allow pigs to follow the cattle, the sum total you 

 get when fed wliole will be greater than when you grind it ; 

 therefore where I feed corn I have hogs follow the cows, and 

 we lose nothing in that way. 



Mr. Pratt. How do you cure it before putting it in the 

 mow? 



Professor Sanborn. In the usual way, then pack it in 

 the mow solid, not put it in loose. 



Professor Whitcher. Do you ever get heat enough so 

 the corn sprouts in the mow ? 



Professor Sanborn. No, I do not. My experience in 

 New Hampshire in storing in that way is very limited 

 indeed. I have stored it in the West in that way success- 

 fully. 



Mr. Pratt. After removing the corn, what is your 

 method of putting the land into a grass crop ? With com- 

 mercial fertilizers, or farm-yard manure ? 



Professor Sanborn. I contemplate the following rota- 

 tion : forty acres of corn, forty of potatoes, forty of barley 

 and forty of timothy. I am uncertain about the grain crops, 

 whether the time has gone by for the growing of them, and 

 mv rotation is tentative. 



Mr. . Have you given any of this whole corn to 



your horses ? 



