138 [Senate 



Effects of Poudrette on Indian, Corn. 



The ear of Indian Corn accompanying this, is submitted for the in- 

 spectors of the Fanners' Club in the city of New York. 



This ear was taken on the 12th of September, 1843, from one of 

 the stalks that grew on corn planted on ihe27th of June, in the fore- 

 noon. The severe drought with which the region of country arouncf 

 the city of New York was visited this year, had then existed for 

 some time. There was no fall of rain after the corn was planted un- 

 til the shower on Monday night, tiie 17th of July, 1843. The follow- 

 ing day, the iSth of July, just three weeks after the corn was planted, 

 it was measured and was two feet \\\g\\ from the surface of the ground 

 to tlie end of the leal" — an unparallelet! growth. 



On the first of Septembery just sixty-six days after planting, there 

 were ears of corn on the stalks fit for roasting or boiling. 



On this 12th day of September, just seventy-eight days after 

 planting, it appears sufficiently glazed to have the corn cut up by the 

 roots and ripen in the shock, in which, condition the frost does not 

 affect it. 



The corn planted was of the kind called the Button Corn^ yellow^ 

 twelve rowed and ordinarily measures in length eight inches, and in 

 circumference six inches at the butt end. The corn now exhibited 

 is yellow, twelve-rowed, measures ten inches in length, and 6 inch- 

 es in circumference. 



The corn was manured with poudrette ; three experiments of new 

 and different compounds, mixed with night soil had been prepared 

 to be tested and compared with poudrette, as heretofore made by the 

 Lodi Manufacturing Company, and which ordinarily contains fiity- 

 eight per tent of" ammonite or fructifying power. 



Bear in mind the corn was planted on the 27th day of June, about 

 the middle of as severe a drought as was ever renjembered in the 

 memory of man in the region of New-York. Experiments Nos. 1 

 and 2, were out of the ground on Saturday morning, the 30th, at 

 about day-lioht ; less than four ivhole days. That planted with the 

 pDudrette as heretofore made, was up on Monday morning, two days 

 later. Experiment No. 3 (hd not come up ur.til Wednesday morn- 

 ing. This corn is taken from the hill manured with experiment No. 

 2, which was the favorite at first, and has maintained its ascendancy 

 to the present time, and is estimated to contain upwards of eighty per 

 cent of fructifying jiower. 



The experiments were made in three different neighborhoods, and 

 on different soi's. 



In France, according to a French woik, by Baily, recently transla- 

 ted and publishe.l here, it lakes fiom four to six years to make pou- 

 drette, whi(;h gives twelve per cent for ammonia. It has usually 

 taken the Lodi Manufacturing Company one week to make poudrette. 

 But poudreUe, according to experiment. No. 2, can be made in two 

 days, at the works of ihe Lodi Manufacturing Company, on the 

 Hackensack river, in New-Jersey, near the city of New-York, and 



