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want to say: We got two bushels of ensilage corn and put it 

 on four acres of land, and we got about twenty bushels of seed 

 corn." 



The President : " Would you dare plant that corn here again 

 expecting to get such a yield? " 



Mr. Harrison : " Well, I planted about ten or twelve acres 

 of that corn this year, but planted it so much thicker that I did 

 not get any seed at all. The first corn we planted two bushels 

 on about four acres." 



Mr. Potter : " There is no doubt but the seed from this corn 

 will grow if matured in a favorable season, but Messrs. Oatman 

 Bros., of Dundee, (who have tried it) inform me that it soon 

 acquires that woody fibre, and after growing it two or three 

 years it was no better than our northern corn." 



The President: "You think, then, it would be more profit- 

 able to pay more for the seed and get the corn fresh from the 

 south each year?" 



Mr. Potter: " It seems to me it would be poor policy to use 

 corn raised here and run chances when the difference in the 

 cost of the seed is comparatively so trifling." 



Mr. Harrison: "As regards the difference in the quality of 

 the stalk, we found it was not discernable. I have read about 

 the corn deteriorating by endeavoring to raise seed from it in 

 the north, and am not ignorant of what has been said on that 

 point. Consequently I noticed that in particular. In just one 

 years time we would not expect great changes, of course, to 

 take place, still we might expect them to be discernable before 

 we would make a very great distinction in paying two dollars 

 for our corn. I think it is safe to raise your own seed for sev- 

 eral years ; perhaps at the end of five years the difference would 

 be so great that it would be better to start fresh again. I don't 

 believe it is any more true of this ensilage corn than any other 

 kind of grain that it deteriorates from constant planting in the 

 same place." 



Mr. Boyd: "That is not true of corn. It is true of oats and 

 wheat, but it is not true of corn. You can hold up your corn 



