CANADA CORN. 



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One hundred parts of the above ash contain in the case of 



the 



Nutritive ratio of kernels, 1 : 6.51. 



VI. 



" Canada Corn.** 



(Sample obtained from the farm of the Massachusetts Agricultural College.) 



The ear contained twelve rows of kernels of a yellow 

 color. Its average length was 9.5 inches, and its average 

 weight was from eight to nine ounces, and consisted of 

 eighty-two per cent of kernels and eighteen per cent of cob. 

 The average weight of one kernel was .3 gram. 



It was raised upon a sandy loam which had been manured 

 with barn-cellar manure (fifty-eight loads, each forty-four 

 cubic feet, per acre). In the previous year, corn manured 

 with barnyard manure and Bradley's XL. (in the hill) had 

 been raised. 



One hundred parts contain : — 



