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The President: "What do you mean by a little thin so it 

 will ear out? Mr. Boyd, what would you say?" 



Mr. Boyd: "About eight inches apart." 



Mr. Sawyer: "Does Mr. Garfield cut both varieties of his 

 corn at the same time, or did he cut his yellow or native corn 

 early, when it was in that same condition in which his ensilage 

 corn was when cut ? " 



Mr. Garfield: "We cut all of the native corn first, beginning 

 about the middle of August, and it was some time past the mid- 

 dle of September before the other was cut. I think the yellow 

 corn was further matured because it was further cured." 



Mr. Warne: "I had ajxmt seven bushels of this southern 

 white corn planted. One man planted, he said, about three 

 pecks to the acre ; the other man planted nearly a bushel ; three 

 acres with two bushels and three pecks. That ground had been 

 •a lake swamp about forty nine years. There were ten acres in 

 the lake and I tiled it up. From the day this southern white corn 

 was put in the ground it averaged two inches growth a day until 

 it was cut up. There's numerous stalks, measuring fourteen to 

 sixteen feet, with two ears more than ten feet from the ground. 

 The men cut it up and they carried a step-ladder with them, and 

 stood on the step-ladder to tie the shocks." 



Question — " Wasn't it due largely to tiling? " 



Mr. Warne: "Yes, of course; it was rich land. I have 

 taken and twisted up a stalk of the southern corn and tasted of 

 the juice, and it was like maple syrup in comparison with the 

 juice of the native corn, and I didn't blame the cows for making 

 a distinction and dropping the native corn and picking up the 

 other. The cattle would eat every stalk of the southern corn 

 clean up, and they are large stalks some of them. One of the 

 men who planted this corn has about half a bushel of matured 

 corn saved, which he is satisfied will grow. I think if we would 

 plant the corn thin on rich land that we could get seed from it." 



Mr. Harrison: "This gentleman lives in Kane county, and 

 he says if it were planted thin on rich land he could get seed. 

 Now, in behalf of Carroll county, we got seed last year. I 



