MAIZE. 



265 



Water. 

 15-02 



14-00 

 14-03 

 14-00 



14-50 



Dry. 

 84-98 



Dr. Salisbury has also furnislied the proximate analysis of five 

 varieties of ripe maize or Indian corn : 



Proportions. 



One hundred grains of each. 

 Golden Sioux corn, a bright, yellow, twelve-rowed ) 

 variety, frequently having fourteen rows . ) 

 Large eight-rowed yellow corn . 

 Small eight-rowed ditto 

 White flint corn ... 

 Ohio Dent corn, one of the largest varieties of j 

 maize . . . . . . J 



COMPARATIVE ORGANIC ANALYSIS. 



85-97 

 86-00 



85-50 



Large quantities of starch are now made from this grain in 

 Ohio ; an establishment near Columbus consume 20,000 bushels 

 of corn annually for this purpose. The offal of the grain is given 

 to hogs, 500 to 600 head being annually fattened therewith. The 

 quality of the starch is said to be superior to that of wheat, and 

 commands a higher price in New York. 



A corn plant, fifteen days after the seed was planted, cut on the 

 3rd June close to the ground, gave of 



Water . . . . . . 86.626 



Dry matter . . ... 10.374 



Ash . . . . . . . 1.354 



Ash calculated dry . . 13.053 



By the above figures it will be seen that nearly 90 per cent, of 

 the young plant is water ; and that in proportion to the dry matter, 

 the amount of earthy minerals which remain, as ash, when the 

 plant is burnt, is large. This excess of water continues for many 

 weeks. Thus, on the 5th July, thirty-three days from planting, 

 the relations stood thus : 



Water 



Dry matter . 



Ash . 



Ash calculated dry 



(Ash very saline.) 



90.518 

 9.482 

 1.333 



14.101 



Before green succulent food of this character is fit to give to 

 cows, oxen, mules, or horses, it should be partly dried. Plants 

 that contain from 70 to 75 per cent, of water need no curing be- 



