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BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



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

 the: — 



Nutritive ratio of kernels, 1 : 6.44. 



vn. 



" Canada Dutton Corn." 

 (The sample was obtained from John M. Smith, Esq., Sunderland, Mass.) 



The ear contained twelve rows of kernels of a dark yellow 

 oolor. Its average length was from 9.5 to 10 inches, and its 

 average weight was from 7.5 to 8 ounces, and consisted of 

 eighty-four per cent of kernels and sixteen per cent of cob. 

 The average weight of one kernel was .3 gram. The corn 

 was raised upon a light alluvial soil on the bank of the 

 Connecticut River, which had been manured with barnyard 

 manure (ten loads per acre applied in hill). The yield 

 amounted to fifty bushels per acre. For three years previ- 

 ously grass had been raised upon this land. 



One hundred parts contain : — 



