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THE SUGAR CONTENT OF MAIZE STALKS. 



On comparison, it will be seen that the sugar content of the 

 cobbed and the uncobbed plants examined was practically the 

 same; in other words, that the removal of the cob in the milky 

 stage had no material influence upon the sugar content of the 

 stalk. 



Dr. Collier, to whom reference has already been made, in 

 ^reporting on his work upon the sugar content of the maize stalk 

 in 1880 and 1881, gives the analyses of the stalks of several 

 varieties. With one of the varieties, viz., Egyptian sugar corn, 

 the cobs on one part of the plot were removed in the milky 

 stage, and the stalks examined at intervals of one week after the 

 cobs had been plucked. On the other portion of the plot the 

 cobs were allowed to remain. The results of the analyses made 

 by Collier of stalks from the cobbed and uncobbed portions are 

 given in Table 4. 



Table 4. 



Egyptian Sugar Corn. — Analyses made after the cobs 



had been removed from a portion of the 



plot. (Collier.) 



