loO MAS>ACUrST:TTS: AOT^ICrLTURE. 



the rivmouth Sooioty, from whom wa? roooivod the follovring 

 reply : — 



""Wishing to compare, in respect to shrinkage, the variety of 

 Indian corn known in this vicinity as the • "Wliitman corn." or 

 'smntty vrhitc/ as it is sometimes called. — a kind to which 

 some farmers hero appear to he very partial, — with that 

 of an eight-rowed yellow wliich I had raised for a number of 

 years. I procured for the purpose, some of the former from Mr. 

 Calviu Leavitt, of Bridgewater. The cars sent me by Mr. 

 Lcavitt were from a crop raised by him, in 1852, for which he 

 had taken, that year, the first premium ; and of which the yield, 

 as reported by Mr. H. Collamore. then supervisor of the Ply- 

 mouth County Agricultural Society, was one hundred and 

 twenty-two bushels to the acre. From the sample received, 

 (fine looking corn it was.) I shelled, on the 10th January. 1S53, 

 eight quarts, which weighed at that time fourteen pounds and 

 four ounces, being at the rate of fifty-seven pounds to the 

 busliel. I also, at the same time, shelled from some ears raised 

 the same season, and taken from the crib, an equal number of 

 quarts of the aforesaid yellow. — a handsome, although not, I 

 presume, an unusual variety, with large kernels, which, how- 

 ever, wore not so large as were those of the smutty white. 

 These weighed fifteen pounds and eigV^t oup.or>. being at the 

 rate of sixty-two pounds to the bushel. 



" The several parcels were then spread upon the floor of an 

 npper loft in my corn-house, where they remained securely until 

 the 21st April following; — when, on being again weighed, the 

 smutty white gave twelve pounds and eight ounces, and the 

 yellow fo"rreen pounds and twelve ounces. The first having 

 lost, in weight, from the 10th January to 21st April, one pound 

 and twelve ounces, being at the rate of seven pounds to the 

 bushel ; and the other, twelve ounces, being at the rate of three 

 pounds to the bushel. 



^ The trial. I am sensible, was begun too late in this case, and 

 conducted upon too limited a scale to prove as satisfactory as 

 i- ' " ■ ' : have been. But the facts which appear to 



V ^ - , _ to deserve attention, and to be of a nature 



requiring a fnrther and more thorough investigation of the sub- 

 ject, going to show, as they do, substantially, that of two crops 



