502 AMERICAN HOME GARDEN. 



This Table has been prepared with considerable care and la- 

 bor, but I have not thought it worth while to name the authori- 

 ties consulted and compared ; they include most of the French, 

 German, English, and American chemists, whose various anal- 

 yses of farm products constitute the active capital of writers 

 and speculators upon the subjects to wdiicli they relate. 



The Table is not assumed — indeed, was not intended to be, 

 and could not be made absolutely accui'ate, but it is believed to 

 come so near to the true standard that, with the explanations 

 given, no one is likely to he deceived by it ; and the author 

 will )jc happy to receive any suggestions hj which it may be 

 made more useful, and give them a place in a futme edition, 

 should such be demanded. 



I h<ive not included in it the recently-introilucei.l Chinese 

 Sugar-cane, or Sorghum saccJiaratum, because that, so fir as I 

 am advised, no perfect and reliable analysis of it has yet licen 

 made, nor have statements of its average yield of sufficient ac- 

 curacy and extent j'et appeared to form the )msis of a conclu- 

 sion respecting it. From experiments made with it, however, 

 in various sections, it seems likely to prove valuable for fodder ; 

 and if it should he found impracticable to extend the culture 

 of the Sugar-cane sufficiently to meet the growing demand for 

 its products, persistent efforts will doubtless be made to devise 

 means for the production of sugar from this very juicy crop. 

 It may l;ie cultivated in hills or ro"ws, as corn, and, for a fodiler 

 crop it has the advantage of a small and easilj'-sown seed. 



The Chinese Potato, or Yam, Dioscvrea Batiatas, has been 

 omitted on account of its sheer wijrthlessncss. 



EXPLANATORY REIMARKS. 

 Of the particular quantities given in the first division as 

 representing the product of an acre, corn may be regarded as 

 quite low, and oats, millet, potatoes, cabbages, and the root 

 crops as rather high. For the latter I have taken the average 

 of the English tm-nip crop, which, according to Johnston, is 

 ten tons per acre, though in common turnips wo never ap- 

 proach this, and very rarely in Ruta Baga or the other root 

 cr(,i)is. It is seldom, too, that twenty tons of cabbages are 



