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time 100 lbs. of cob meal are worth $1.80. My experience has 

 led me to put the value of 100 lbs. of ears in the corn crib, 

 when dry enough to grind, at the price of meal per bag at the 

 mills. It costs us 20 cents per 100 lbs. to get our cob meal 

 ground. I think 100 lbs. of it worth, for making milk, 20 

 cents more than a bag of the average meal we get at the mills. 



The value of the cobs, and the difiereuce in quality between 

 the round and flat corn, are important items in making up 

 statements of the cost and value of the corn crops grown in 

 our county, and yet these items have generally been over- 

 looked. Take for example the statement of James P. King 

 for this year. He reports 7650 lbs. of ears, allows 85 lbs. of 

 ears for a bushel, and calls a bushel worth 70 cents, 90 bush- 

 els $63.00. If I had such a corn crop as that, I should say, 

 7650 lbs. of ears worth in crib, $1.35 per 100 lbs., cash value 

 of corn $103.27. This may seem too high to many, if they 

 have not carefully watched the practical working of cob meal. 

 But I think a large majority of the farmers in Essex County 

 who have grown corn this season, will admit that four quarts 

 of cob meal are worth as much as three quarts of the clear meal 

 mills ; with that data we have 7650 lbs. of ears, worth in the 

 crib $1.15 per 100 lbs. ; -cash value of the corn $87.97. 



It is well for the farmers of Essex County to know the full 

 value of their meadow hay, butt-stalks, and corn-cobs. It is 

 also well for them to know the exact conditions under which 

 they can realize full value for all their crops, for, economy in 

 using is as important as economy in producing. 



ESSAY ON THE ANGLE WORM. 



BY JAMES J. H. GREGORY, OF MARBLEHExVD. . 



Twenty-four years ago, in the year 1853, being too unwell 

 to attend to any business, I gave a portion of my time during 

 the spring and summer to the study of the common angle or 



