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ANALYSES OK MAIZE. 



TABLE SHOWING THE CONNEXION OF THE GROWTH OF MAIZE WITH THE 

 TEMPERATURE OF THE SOIL AND THE AIR. 



Note. The mean temperature is that of the hour of 3 P. M. 



" One half the corn was manured in the hill with hog manure, and one half with un- 

 leached ashes. The first was properly attended to ; but in that manured with ashes, owing 

 to the carelessness of the person who had it in charge, the whole sixteen hills were put 

 together, and the varieties so mixed that I was obliged to let it go ; and of course have 

 confined what I have done to the portion manured with hog manure. 



" During a pari of the months of August and September, the observations on the weather 

 were not quite so complete as I intended to have them : winds, clouds, and rain were not 

 always noted." 



It was my purpose to have given a more complete analyis of Mr. Ball's varieties of 

 corn. Circumstances, however, do not permit me to do this at this time. Observations on 

 temperature, when connected with other meteorological facts, are highly important and 

 interesting, especially when made for the purpose of illustrating their influence upon the 

 growth and progress of vegetation. The section of country, too, where these observations 

 are made, is remarkable for the growth of this crop. Hoosic, in Rensselaer county, is 

 probably one of the best townships in this respect in the State ; the crops being always 

 large, and remarkably sound and perfect. 



It is proper to say, also, that the analysis of the soil after manuring gave those results 

 from the hills of corn to which the manure was directly applied. If such an amount of 

 manure had been distributed generally through the soil of the field, its presence could 

 hardly have been detected by analysis. 



