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mire, of Pennsylvania. The latter measured ten bushels, 

 and it weighed 401 pounds, on the 30th of October, 1870, 

 giving an average of 40.1 pounds. The same corn, Decem- 

 ber 12th, measured ten bushels but only weighed 35.5 lbs. 

 to the bushel showing a loss of weight, by shrinkage, of 

 11.5 per cent. The corn was shelled at the last mentioned 

 date and showed the weight of the cobs to be 19.7 per cent, 

 of the entire weight of the corn. Weight of one measured 

 bushel of grain, 51.3 lbs, after fanning, 52 lbs-; showing a 

 loss by fanning of 1.24 per cent, in weight. 



Another test was made by the same gentleman the next 

 year. November 10, 1871, ten measured bushels of ears 

 weighed 399.5 lbs., an average of 39.95 lbs. per bushel. 

 January 2, 1872, the same corn measured ten bushels but 

 only averaged 34.45 lbs. per bushel. Loss of weight 13.8 

 per cent. On shelling the grain weighed before fanning, 

 there were 260.25 lbs., showing the weight of the cobs to 

 have been 24.4 per cent of the entire corn. After fanning 

 there was a loss of 2.9 per cent, in weight. 



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