Proceedings of the Farmers' Club. ^21 



two rows across one another, two feet high, and laying the cut corn 

 on every other table ; drive team over empty table, with man on 

 each side to hand brush to loader. With two teams and four men to 

 haul, and two teams and twelve men to scrape and lay up, from one 

 to one and a half tons can be put up in a day. When dry, bulk, 

 after sweat, bale ; four men can press three tons a day. The seed is 

 "worthless, being green ; if ripe, brush ditto, or, in other words, red 

 corn won't bring a price so it will pay to let get ripe ; cutting four 

 dollars to six dollars per acre. Help, $1,25 to $1,50 per day ; farm 

 hands, eighteen dollars to twenty -five dollars per month; yield, a ton 

 on from three to eight acres. 



Sawdust. 



Mr. S. M. M eaker, Fowler, Trumble county, Ohio. — I have bought 

 300 grape vines. My ground is underdrained with tile, clay loam, 

 descending south. I propose to trench twenty inches deep and the 

 same in width, and fill up wuth rotton sod that was plowed last 

 spring. Now, what I would like to know is, whether it would hurt 

 the vines to put rotted sawdust made of whitewood and white oak to 

 fill up the trench, say a bushel to a vine ? Would there be so much 

 acid as to hurt the vine, provided the roots did not come in contact 

 with the sawdust ? 



Mr. A. S. Fuller. — I would not want to trust it. He had better 

 not experiment on young vines. 



Mr. H. Greeley. — I suppose his land is close, and that he wishes 

 to lighten it. I question if he will have very great success with 

 grapes on clay, but the sawdust mixed through the soil may help 

 matters some. I should think this the better way to dispose of it, 

 and thus used, it seems to me, it would be valuable. 



Dr. F. M. Hexamer. — He had better use his sawdust for bedding 

 in stables, and apply it to the soil afterward. If his land is heavy 

 he would find it advisable to trench it. 



Roofs for Buildings. 



Mr. Thomas Snyder, of Ilockport, Indiana., wrote to inquire about 

 the asbestos roofing answering a better ])urpose than shingles, and 

 would it prove cheaper in the end ? 



The Chairman. — I should say it would de])end entirely on the 

 price paid for either, and we cannot be expected to judge, since the 

 figures are not given. 



