13G MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



Table of the Weather. 

 May, first third dry ; middle third, dry ; last third dry. 

 June, " dry; " dry; " dry. 



July, " dry ; " dry ; " dry. 



Aug., " dry; " moist; " ' dry. 



Sept., " dry ; " dry ; " moist. 



The yellow corn produced twenty-eight and six-tenths bush- 

 els of shelled corn, or two thousand pounds of ears, and two 

 thousand four hundred pounds of stover per acre ; and the 

 top-over, forty-seven and eight-tenths bushels, or three thousand 

 three hundred and twenty-eight pounds of corn, and four thou- 

 sand four hundred and twenty-five pounds of stover; and the 

 Nantucket, fifty-nine and nine-tenths bushels, or four thousand 

 four hundred and ninety-nine pounds of corn, and four thou- 

 sand seven hundred and sixty pounds of stover. The yellow corn 

 ripened two, if not three weeks sooner than either of the other 

 kinds, and was not so much injured by the August storm ; neither 

 was it all injured by the heavy frost of October 1st, which very 

 materially damaged the Nantucket, and did some harm to the 

 top-over. The Rhode Island premium, planted June 7th, fully 

 matured, and almost every ear was perfect. 



I was induced to commence these experiments with the three 

 varieties of corn, with that of the manure, from the fact that 

 every member of the Board of Agriculture who has visited us, 

 has condemned our native white corn, and recommended the 

 culture of the yellow. But this experiment shows that the same 

 land, and manure, and culture, will produce over one hundred 

 per cent, more of the Nantucket variety than of the yellow, and 

 twenty per cent, more than the top-over, and a much smaller 

 proportion of stover to the pound of corn. 



As the weather table shows, the whole of the three first 

 months after planting, were uncommonly dry ; in fact, not 

 enougli rain fell after the corn was planted, to wet the ground 

 one inch deep, until the 25th of August, when a very violent 

 storm of wind and rain prostrated it to the ground, and from 

 the injury it received, it uQver recovered. What the results 

 would have been with early rains, we can only conjecture. 

 The lot No. 1 produced the most stover, and less corn than 



