240 
ANALYSES OF MAIZE. 
TABLE SHOWING THE CONNEXION OF THE GROWTH OF MAIZE WITH THE 
TEMPERATURE OF THE SOIL AND THE AIR. 
No. of 
row. 
1st and 2d 
week. 
Mean 
temp. 
3d and 4th 
week. 
Mean 
temp. 
5th and 6th 
week. 
Mean 
temp. 
•7th and 8th 
week. 
Mean 
temp. 
9th and 3 0th 
week. 
Mean 
temp. 
1 
5 
in. 
Air. 
10 in. 
Air. 
27 
in. 
Air. 
30 
in. 
Air. 
12 
in. 
Air. 
3 
5k 
CC 
76-30 
9 >- “ 
72-53 
28 
CC 
85-80 
27 
cc 
78-26 
8 
CC 
80-00 
5 
5k 
cc 
Soil. 
6i “ 
Soil. 
30 
CC 
Soil. 
22 
cc 
Soil. 
26 
CC 
Soil. 
7 
4i 
cc 
67-76 
6k “ 
23 
cc 
80-53 
26 
cc 
76-13 
18 
cc 
74-93 
9 
6 
cc 
10 “ 
65-73 
30 
cc 
24 
cc 
38 
cc 
11 
6 
cc 
11 “ 
29 
cc 
29 
cc 
27 
cc 
Note. The mean temperature is that of the hour of 3 P. M. 
u One half the corn was manured in the hill with hog manure, and one half with un¬ 
leached ashes. The first was properly attended to ; but in that manured with ashes, owing 
to the carelessness of the person who had it in charge, the whole sixteen hills were put 
together, and the varieties so mixed that I was obliged to let it go ; and of course have 
confined what I have done to the portion manured with hog manure. 
u During a part of the months of August and September, the observations on the weather 
were not quite so complete as I intended to have them : winds, clouds, and rain were not 
always noted.” 
It was my purpose to have given a more complete analyis of Mr. Ball’s varieties of 
corn. Circumstances, however, do not permit me to do this at this time. Observations on 
temperature, when connected with other meteorological facts, are highly important and 
interesting, especially when made for the purpose of illustrating their influence upon the 
growth and progress of vegetation. The section of country, too, where these observations 
are made, is remarkable for the growth of this crop. Hoosic, in Rensselaer county, is 
probably one of the best townships in this respect in the State; the crops being always 
large, and remarkably sound and perfect. 
It is proper to say, also, that the analysis of the soil after manuring gave those results 
from the hills of corn to which the manure was directly applied. If such an amount of 
manure had been distributed generally through the soil of the field, its presence could 
hardly have been detected by analysis. 
