ANALYSIS AND COMPOSITION OF CORN. 

 Table No. 5. 



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" The ear is found, as we would expect, much richer in nitrogenous 

 substance than the other parts of the plant. The nutritive power (or 

 comparative value) as it is agreed to define it, by the relation of the 

 azotic substance to the sum of the fatty matter, sugar, and starch, is quite 

 inferior in the stalks to that of the other organs, as the following table 

 3hows. 



"Taking the ear as unity, the proportionate nutritive power is as 

 ^ollows : 



Table No. 6. 



" The stalk, however, shows that it is very rich, and, above all, the 

 leaves, which therefore should be taken care of for the cattle. The fatty 

 matter is concentrated in the leaves and in the ear, the saccharine mat- 

 ter in the leaves and stalk, and mostly in the lower part of the stalk. 



