ANALYSIS OF INDIAN CORN, 



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in farming, they mistake doggedness for consistency, and look on all change of 

 opinion as an apostacy of principle. For such men was written the following 



SONG. 



1 'll fakm like my fathers before me. 



Whenmy landlord says "John, 



You must really gel on — 

 Just see how your neighbors are striving ; 



We must be improving, 



And onward keep moving; 

 Depend that 's the right road to thriving''— 

 " Sir, I pay when I can ; 



I 'm a hard-working man ; 

 At elections, you know, you get o'er me. 



Let them do as they may, 



1 prefer the old way — 

 I '11 ferm like my fathers before me. 



" There is Berwickshire Dick — 



Of the fellow I 'm sick — 

 They say tiiat his crops are so charming ; 



And there is East Lothian Will, 



He is worse and worse still ; 

 They boast — hoio they boast of his farming !- 



Everj'thing is so good. 



And so well understood ! — 

 Tt 's all just to chafe and to bore me : 



But I care not a jot, 



For I value them not — 

 I '11 farm like my fathers before me. 



" There 's nothing but toiling 



At draining, subsoiling, 

 And grubbing old hedge-rows and fences ; 



It is all very neat, 



When the thing is complete, 

 But dreadful to think what expenses ! 



Should I spend on the land, 



I cannot understand 

 How cash it again would restore me : 



I shall therefore take care 



Aught that I get to spare 

 I '11 keep like my fathers before me. 



" To the markets they ride, 



In the flush of their pride, 

 As if they were "pinks of creation ; 



On the best they will dine, 



And sit over their wine. 

 And talk about crops and rotation ; 



But how they do contrive 



To get RICH — man alive ! 

 T'hat certainly rathkr gets o'er me ! 



But I care not a jot, 



For I envy them not — 

 I '11 farm like my fathers before me. 



" There 's such new-fangled ways 



About dung now-a days, 

 Whole islands have gone to destructiou ; 



It 's absxird to suppose 



That so tiny a dose 

 Can greatly increase the production. 



About li<iuid manure 



I 'm not quite so sure ; 

 But trouble and tanks, I abhor ye! 



'T was my old father's song : 



' Jack, thou 'It never do wrong 



To farm like thy fathers before thee. 



" Improvements in breeding, 



And new modes of feeding ; 

 'Bout Science they '11 preach you a sermon. 



They may boast of Liebig, 



But I care not a fig ; 

 He 's nought but some cunning old German. 



They talk about gases 



Like thundering asses — 

 Such nonsense shall never get o'er me. 



I have just this to say : 



I prefer the old way — 

 I '11 farm like my fathers before me." 



ANALYSIS OF INDIAN CORN. 



This long-sought desideratum is at last likely to be obtained. We have had 

 analyses of the grain of Indian Corn, as well in America as in Europe. We 

 have already published in this Journal, in June of last year, the results of exam- 

 inations of the grain, made by Fromberg, and by Letellier — and of the ash of the 

 com blade, by Hruschauer. In the latter case the analysis was of the " straw "* 

 of corn grown on different soils — the first on a soil formed from the debris of pri- 

 mary rocks, the second on a mountain limestone — and the result showed great 

 difference, both in the total per cent, of the ash left, and in the proportions of 

 every one of the constituents which the ash contains. 



The mean of the two specimens from these different soils was : 



Potash 9-62 



Soda 26-30 



Lime 7-97 



Magnesia 6-64 



Oxide of iron 0-81 



Phosphoric acid 17-08 



.Sulphate of lime 1-19 



Chloride of sodium 3-42 



Silica 26-97 



Total 100-00 



The per centage of ash was in one case 2-30 ; in the other, or that from the 

 limestone mountain land, ti-50 — mean, 4-40. Thus, says Professor Johnston, 60' 



(1025). 



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