22 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



stover. On comparing the crops grown on this field and esti- 

 mating the sound corn and the stover at seven dollars the ton, 

 it will be found that the value of the crops produced by the 

 rows planted with seed taken from the butts, was : — 



Of sound corn, 738 pounds, which, at 1 cent, 

 soft " 77 " " 1 " 



stover, 1,360 " " at |7 a ton, . 



Total, $12 53 



The value of the produce of the rows seeded from the middle 

 of the ears, was : — 



Of sound corn, 663 pounds, at 1 cent, . . . 86 63 



soft " 164 " ati- " . . . 82 



stover, 1,290 " at |7 the ton, . . . 4 51 



Whole value, . . ... $11 96 



The value of the produce of the rows seeded from the tips 

 of the ears, was : — 



Of sound corn, 747 pounds, at 1 cent, . . . 87 47 



soft " 53 " ati " ... 27 



stover, 1,320 " at 87 the ton, . . . 4 62 



Whole value, 812 36 



So that the butts produced the most, the tips the next, and, 

 the middles the least money value ; while the tips produced the 

 most, the butts the next, and the middles least sound corn ; and 

 middles produced the most, the butts the next, and the tips the 

 least soft corn. It is difficult to determine by this experiment, 

 from what part of the ear the seed should be taken. Probably 

 a mixture of the grains of the wdiole ear, being most natural, 

 would be the best. 



Six acres of corn on the Sibley lot, were manured with forty- 

 five cords of barn manure spread and cultivated in, and sixty 

 bushels of leached ashes, and six hundred pounds of plaster 

 mixed and put in the hill ; the ground was ploughed about the 

 middle, and planted on the 20th of May. It was hoed three 

 times, at proper intervals, and was cut up by the roots, stooked 

 September 15, and luisked on the 7th of October, producing 

 432 bushels of corn in the ear, or 10 tons 200 pounds of stover. 

 This was the second year of planting corn on the same land, 

 which is by some considered a bad practice, and may be the 

 cause of the smallness of the crop. 



