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STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



The foregoing table would be comparatively valueless without the 

 weights of the different parts of the plants were also known, hence the 



following table 



To secure representative samples of the sweet corn at the different dates 

 similar stalks were taken from every fourth hill until a hundred stalks 

 were secured. They were weighed and treated in the same way that the 

 dent corn was. the ears, bare stalks and the leaves and husks being 

 weighed separately and samples taken for analysis. 



Taking jup first the dry matter, the next table shows the per cent of the 

 total dry matter in the plants as a whole that was found in the leaves, 

 stalks and ears respectively at the different dates. 



Here again if is shown that the ears when the corn is fully ripe contain 

 bui little morelhan half the dry matter of the entire plant. The leaves of 

 sweet corn contain more than a quarter of the dry matter and the stalks 

 less than a fifth. It is important therefore that in harvesting this crop 



