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would be as uncertain a method of computation as resorting 

 to guess-work. 



Let us take the weight of George W. Wood's acre at the time 

 of harvest, 6,998.75 pounds, and divide it by 85 pounds, and 

 we have 82.33 as the number of bushels of 56 pounds each on 

 the acre, which differs but a small fraction from the amount 

 actually weighed and measured. Now, suppose we estimate 

 the specimen rods, to learn how many pounds of ears were 

 needed for a bushel of shelled corn, and we have the following 

 answer: 78: 128.5:: 56: 92.9. Thus, if 78 pounds of shelled 

 corn required 128.5 pounds of cars, 56 pounds of shelled corn 

 will require 92.9 pounds, or nearly eight pounds more than the 

 standard, 85. Now, if we had in this case estimated the whole 

 acre from the specimen rods, and reckoned 85 pounds of ears 

 for a bushel, we should have called the product 120 bushels ; 

 whereas, it was only about 82, a little more than two-thirds of 

 what we should erroneously have supposed. How many such 

 estimates have been made in years past, it is not easy to 

 determine. 



So of Mr. Perkins's corn. Divide the whole weight at the 

 time of harvest, 8,518 pounds, by 85, and we have a quotient 

 of 100 and 18 remainder, coming within two bushels of the 

 actual measurement. But had we estimated the whole field 

 from the specimen rods when taken, we should have reckoned 

 nine bushels too much. And yet, this corn would from the 

 specimen rods, have required 86 pounds of ears for a bushel of 

 shelled corn. For as 77 : 118.25 : : 56 : to 86. 



And now leaving this department to the oversight of others, 

 I would express the hope, that the experiment continued another 

 year, under the supervision of a new committee of practical 

 farmers, will develop new facts of public utility, and fully 

 accomplish the end for which it was designed. 



F. P. Rowland, Supervisor. 



Statement of Robert Perkins on Shelled Corn. 

 The acre of land entered by me for premium on corn, is of 

 an uneven surface, in part gravelly loam, in part reclaimed 

 meadow. It is hard and some parts stony, with a fair depth of 

 good soil, generally a clayey subsoil, not easily cultivated, and 

 not such land as would ordinarily be selected for growing Indian 



