1886.] 



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The analysis of this variety of corn furnishes an additional 

 illustration of the influence of fitness and condition of soil on 

 the composition of one and the same kind of crop, under 

 similar climatical conditions. The corn No. 2 contains nearly 

 one-fifth, or 20 per cent., more fat and nitrogenous com- 

 pounds — the most costly constituents — than sample No. 1. 

 A comparison of the above stated analytical results, with 

 the analyses of prominent varieties of corn raised within the 

 State, shows that, as far as composition is concerned, the 

 Hampden Prolific Corn may be counted of equal value with 

 our home standard articles. For details I refer to an article 

 "On Relative Value of Several Prominent Varieties of East- 

 ern, Western and Southern Corn," published in the annual 

 report of the secretary of the Massachusetts State Board of 

 Agriculture for 1879, pages 221-250. 



To manure our farm crops well pays, as a rule, not less in 

 regard to the improvement in quality than in the increase of 

 quantity. 



I. BLUE JOINT GRASS HAY. 



(Calamagkostis Canadensis.) 



[From the lands along the Ipswich River; for the Essex County Agricultural 



Society.] 



