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MASSAeWE^TTS STATE 



AGRlCULfnHfi:BPERiENT STATION, 



BXJjLjX-.ETIIsr IsTo. SI. 



JC/"^^, 1886. 



Meteorological Summary for the month ending June 30th ^ 1886. 

 Highest temperature, . . . 82.0° 



Lowest temperature, - . _ _ 40.0° 



Mean temperature, . _ . _ 63s2° 



Total rainfall, ----- 2.33 in. 

 Prevailing winds, - _ - South to Southwest. 



No. of days on which 0.1 inches or more of rain fell, 8 



No. of days on which cloudiness averaged 8 or more » 



on scale of 10, 11 



The two principal storms of the month were of an unusual long 

 duration ; while the rainfall was exceptionally small. 



FODDER CORN AND CORN ENSILAGE. 



The last annual report on the work of the Experiment Station 

 contains upon pages 52 and 53 a record of observations concerning 

 the gradual increase of vegetable matter in the fodder corn during 

 its successive stages of growth. A series of tests carried out with 

 plants taken from our fields had demonstrated the fact, that the veg- 

 etable matter in the variety of corn on trial (Clark) had increased 

 from fifty to one hundred per cent, in actual weight, between the 

 time of the first appearance of the tassel and the beginning of the 

 glazing of the kernels. It was found that the same variety of corn, 

 raised under fairly corresponding circumstances, as far as the gene- 

 ral character of the soil and the mode of cultivation are concerned, 

 contained in one hundred weight parts, at the time of the first 

 appearance of the tassel, from twelve to fifteen weight parts of dry 

 vegetable matter and from eighty-two to seventy-five parts of water ; 

 whilst at the time of the beginning of the glazing of the kernels the 

 former was noticed to vary from twenty-three to twenty-eight weight 

 parts and the water from seventy-seven to seventy-two. These 



