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An experiment made Avith the stalks of Egyptian sugar corn, taken 

 after the ears had been plucked for canning, was as follows: 



621 pounds stalks with leaves and tops. 



240 pounds leaves and tojjs. 



381 pO'iniis stripped stalks. 



159 pounds .iuice expressed. 



lO.ti.i specific gravity of juiee. 



41 7 per eeutof juieu from stripped stalks. 



30 3:'. pounds of syrup made. 



19 1 per cent syrup in juice. 



14.25 pounds sugar extracted from syrup. 



47 per cent of sugar extracted from syrup. 



16.08 pounds of molasses remaining. 



The above is equal to a j'ield from each ton of stripped stalks of 

 74.8 pounds of sugar, and 84.4 pounds, or 6.75 gallons, of molasses. 



Nelson Maltby, of Geneva, Ohio, reports a similar result, January 

 8th, 1883, as .follows: " I cut 200 pounds of corn stalks, when the ear 

 Avasjust fit for u.se. It made one gallon of syrup, and from this, I ob- 

 tained St} pounds of sugar. I tliink lean improve upon this next time." 

 His result is about 35 pounds of sugar, and 7.2 gallons of molasses to 

 a ton of stalks. 



SUGAR AND RIPE GRAIN FROM- MAIZE. 



A small plat of three varieties of field corn (Lindsay's horse tooth, 

 Improved Prolific, White Dcnt),.])lanted in drills 3 feet apart, the 

 stalks about 8 to 10 inches apart in the row (the rows were in all 166 

 feet long), was cut after the grain was fully ripe. There Avere left for 

 this experiment but 142 stalks, and tliere was obtained from these 

 41.25 pounds of thoroughly ripened shelled grain, from which, in 1880, 

 a crop was planted and grown. (Upon an acre there would have been 

 17,424 stalks, in drills 3 feet apart, and the stalks 10 inches apart, and 

 at the rate of yield obtained, there Avould have been 5,430 pounds of 

 shelled corn, which, at 56 pounds to the bushel, would be 97 bushels, 

 a very remarkable but not unprecedented yield.) 



After having had stalks removed for analysis, there yet remained 

 142 stalks to the 166 feet of row, which yielded at the rate of 69.1 

 bushels of shelled corn to the acre. 



These 142 stalks were worked for sugar, and the results were : 



Pounds. 



Weight of stalks with leaves 222 



W'eight of leaves 67 



Weight of stripped stalks 1")5 



Juice cxpresseil by mill 70 



Per cent of juice to stripped stalks 45 ir; 



Specific gravity of juic3 1 <'70 



Syrup made 9 5 



Per cent of syrup from juice 13.57 



