502 AMERICAN HOME GARDEN. 



This Table has been prepared with considerable care and la- 

 bor, but I have not thought it worth while to name the authori- 

 ties consulted and compared ; they include most of the French, 

 German, English, and American chemists, whose various anal- 

 yses of farm products constitute the active capital of writers 

 and speculators upon the subjects to which they relate. 



The Table is not assumed indeed, was not intended to be, 

 and could not be made absolutely accurate, but it is believed to 

 come so near to the true standard that, with the explanations 

 given, no one is likely to be deceived by it ; and the author 

 will be happy to receive any suggestions by which it may be 

 made more useful, and give them a place in a future edition, 

 should such be demanded. 



I have not included in it the recently-introduced Chinese 

 Sugar-cane, or Sorghum saccharatum, because that, so far as I 

 am advised, no perfect and reliable analysis of it has yet been 

 made, nor have statements of its average yield of sufficient ac- 

 curacy and extent yet appeared to form the basis of a conclu- 

 sion respecting it. From experiments made with it, however, 

 in various sections, it seems likely to prove valuable for fodder ; 

 and if it should be found impracticable to extend the culture 

 of the Sugar-cane sufficiently to meet the growing demand for 

 its products, persistent efforts will doubtless be made to devise 

 means for the production of sugar from this very juicy crop. 

 It may be cultivated in hills or rows, as corn, and. for a fodder 

 crop it has the advantage of a small and easily-sown seed. 



The Chinese Potato, or Yam, Dioscorea Battatas,li&$ been 

 omitted on account of its sheer worthlessness. 



EXPLANATORY REMARKS. 



Of the particular quantities given in the first division as 

 representing the product of an acre, corn may be regarded as 

 quite low, and oats, millet, potatoes, cabbages, and the root 

 crops as rather high. For the latter I have taken the average 

 of the English turnip crop, which, according to Johnston, is 

 ten tons per acre, though in common turnips we never ap- 

 proach this, and very rarely in Kuta Baga or the other root 

 crops. It is seldom, too, that twenty tons of cabbages are 



