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BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



IV. 



"Blue Texas Sweet-Corn." 

 (The sample was secured in Palmer, Mass.) 



The ear contained eight rows of kernels of a blue color. 

 Its average length was from five to six inches. Its aver- 

 age weight was from three to four ounces, and consisted of 

 eighty-eight per cent of kernels and twelve per cent of cob. 

 The average weight of one kernel was .32 gram. 



One hundred parts contain : — 



Grape-sugar .1.83 per cent. 



Cane-sugar 4.23 



Nutritive ratio of kernels, 1 : 5.79. 



V. 



" Southern Corn." 

 (The sample was obtained from South Carolina, through A. A. Southwick, Amherst, Mass.) 



The ear contained twelve rows of kernels of a white color. 

 Its average length was 8.5 inches, and its average weight was 

 about seven ounces, and consisted of eighty per cent of ker- 

 nels and twenty per cent of cob. The average weight of one 

 kernel was .29 gram. 



One hundred parts contain : — 



