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in bad seasons with poor or scanty nourishment the straw suffers more 

 in relative composition than the grain. 



From the third series we learn that with numerous conditions of 

 manuring there was more grain and of better quality over the second 

 ten years, and that the amount of nitrogen found in the produce with 

 equal supply was dependent on the associated mineral supply. This 

 seems to show that the application of mineral manures to our Eastern 

 lands should bring up the yield of grain and the quality, as far as we 

 are able to judge and profit by these experiments abroad. Work of a 

 similar character at home would certainly open a vast field of information 

 and be of great benefit to the American farmer who is desirous of cul- 

 tivating his ground on rational principles, but he will be able to gather 

 from these English experiments much which will be to his advantage 

 if they only serve to show the great susceptibility of wheat to its sur- 

 roundings. 



In another place it is intended to take up the relations of corn (maize) 

 to climate, soil, and season in the same manure as has been done with 

 wheat. It can only be said here that our results have shown that it is 

 the quantity per acre and not the quality of corn which is affected most 

 by conditions of environment. 



ERRATA TO BULLETIN NO. 1. 



Page 4. No. 722, Blouut's Hybrid "No. 16," read " No. 17." 



No. 723, Blount's Hybrid " No. 17." read " No. 18." 



No. 725, Blount's Hybrid "No. 20," read "No. 21." 

 Page 5. No. 725, Hybrid "No. 20," read "No. 21." 



Page 31. For nitrogen in Alabama wheat read " 1.82 " instead of " 1.79." 

 Page 37. No. 725, in table, Blouut's Hybrid " No. 20," read " No. 21." 

 Page 41. Jn last table on the uage read for weight of 100 grains in 1882 " 4.283" in- 

 stead of " 4.HS2." 



Page 43. " In Virginia a stinted wheat," read " a stunted wheat." 

 Page 63. Under Colorado for "Blount's Prolific, Flint,'' read " White Dent." 

 Page 68. For weight of 100 kernels Field corn, read " 36.910 " instead of " .910." 

 Page 69. Twelve lines from foot of page, read "and corn 3.17 per cent. " instead of 

 "2.8." 



