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on each stalk; (&quot;c,j cob small, but long, and grains long and 

 numerous ; (d,) husk thick and hard so as to shed water, and 

 resist the attacks of birds ; (e,) ripening sufficiently early to es 

 cape early frosts. In the Northeastern States, corn with a short 

 light stalk, but with suckers, or supernumerary stalks bearing 

 ears, as in the Dutton, is preferred* 



279, The weight of a bushel of corn greatly varies. The 

 legal weight in Michigan is 56 Ibs, to the bushel. It is stated 

 that corn on the cob loses 20 to 50 per cent* in measure by 

 shrinkage in seven months, and 10 to 15 per cent, in weight. 

 When sold on the cob by the bushel, 2 to l bushels of ears 

 are equivalent to one bushel of shelled corn according to variety, 

 In the Southern States it is frequently measured by the barrel 

 of. five bushels. 



280 The yield to the acre varies from 20 to 200 bushels of 

 shelled corn. 



The following premium crops of corn were grown in Kentucky in 

 1859. There were nine competitors, and the surface in cultivation tea 

 acres by each competitor. 



J. Mataon, 189 bushels, I quart per acre, 



P.Pean, - 189 



S. H. Chew, - 137&amp;gt; &quot; 



J. Hutchcraft, - - 115 



A.Vanmeter, 108}:, &quot; &quot; 



E. Hedges, - 107 &quot; &quot; 



. W. Hockaday, - 100 &quot; 



Dr. B. W. Dudley, - - 100 



II. Varnon, - 98 &quot; 



nr, 11,440 bushels 10 quarts shelled corn oft 90 acres, perhaps the largest 

 quantity ever raised from the same area. ( D&amp;gt; Lee.) But it shows what 

 corn can produce under good cultivation and favorable circumstances. 



281. I. Inorganic ANALYSIS of white Flint corn, sown on a 

 andy loam and manured in part with coal ashes^ (Salisbury,) 

 New York r 



