”Mr. Ralph Ware, of the”Buel Institute,” in northern Illinois, writes that the ‘corn crop is good, if not the best ever raised since the settlement of the country. We place the average at 45 bushels per acre. One field of 10 acres produced 110 bushels per acre; a number of pieces averaged from 70 to 80.’ ”

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Annual Report of the Commissioner of Patents, Part 2, Doc. No. 32, 1851, page 20