ANALYSES OF MAIZE. 
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The husks, 
Silica - 
Earthy phosphates 
Lime 
Magnesia 
Potash - 
Soda 
Chlorine 
Sulphuric acid 
The cobs and kernels, 
Silica - 
Earthy phosphates 
Lime - 
Magnesia 
Potash - 
Soda 
Chlorine 
Sulphuric acid 
Husks. 
26-922 lbs. 
14-831 
0-254 
0-040 
1-984 
5-555 
3-141 
3-770 
56-497 
Cobs. Kernels. 
4-678 lbs 
5-939 
8-229 
22-187 
0-103 
0-100 
0-309 
1*506 
12-315 
14-950 
2-034 
14-118 
0-045 
0-309 
0-118 
2-740 
27-831 
61-849 
The several amounts, according to the foregoing results, will stand as follows: 
lbs. oz. 
Silica. 173 12-496 
Earthy phosphates. 93 3-984 
Lime --------- - 13 9-248 
Magnesia. 5 0*752 
Potash - 66 2*944 
Soda ---.61 15*184 
Chlorine. 28 7-328 
Sulphuric acid. 29 11-696 
471 15-632 
Maize must be ranked then among the most exhausting crops. It is evident that poor 
soils will scarcely repay the farmer for its cultivation. It is evident, too, that unlike other 
cereals, there is little danger of using too much manure in its cultivation. It is not liable 
to run to foliage, and thereby fail to produce grain; neither will it lodge, or fall down by 
its own excessive disproportion of organic to its inorganic matter. 
There is one more important view which may be taken of the analyses : they will dispel 
the notion so frequently inculcated by writers and lecturers, that bone earth is the main 
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