PROGNOSTICATIONS OF THE WEATHER. 
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been furnished us of maize or Indian corn, and the 
editors infer, that Dr. Dana, in the New England 
Farmer, has been the first to do so. Indian corn 
has been analysed by the German chemists repeat¬ 
edly, and we have now a translation of one of these 
lying before us, taken from Burger’s Manual of 
Land Husbandry. There are also two tables in 
Thomson’s Chemistry of Organic Bodies, published 
in London in 1838. That of Bizio was made as 
early as 1823. Professor Gorham’s we believe, 
somewhat earlier. 
Analysis of 100 parts of Maize , by Gorham. 
Water 
Fresh. 
9 
Dried. 
Starch 
. 77 
- 84.599 
Zein (gluten) 
3 
3.296 
Albumen 
2.5 - 
2.747 
Gum - 
1.75 - 
1.922 
Sugar - 
1.45 - 
1.593 
94.70 
94.157 
Analysis of 100 parts of Maize, by Bizio. 
Starch - 
- 80.920 
Zein (gluten) - 
5.758 
Extractive - 
1.092 
Zimome - 
0.945 
Gum 
2.283 
Sugar . 
0.895 
Fat oil 
0.323 
Hordein, (nearly like starch) 
7.710 
Salts, acetic acid and loss 
0.074 
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PROGNOSTICATIONS OF THE WEATHER. 
A friend of ours, a captain in the United States 
navy, has handed us the following table for fore¬ 
telling the weather, which he says he has consult¬ 
ed for 20 years in different latitudes in America, 
and has generally found it to be relied upon. It 
was originally composed by that eminent astrono¬ 
mer, the elder Herschell, and added to somewhat 
by the late Dr. Adam Clarke. A knowledge of the 
weather a few days in advance, is of considerable 
consequence to the farmer, and especially during 
harvest-time; and we should be glad if our read¬ 
ers would make their observations in accordance 
with these tables, and give us any information that 
they may happen to possess on this interesting 
topic. 
A Table for foretelling the Weather, 
THROUGH ALL THE LUNATIONS OF EACH YEAR, FOR 
ever.— This table, and the accompanying remarks, 
are the result of many years’ actual observation; 
the whole being constructed on a due consideration 
of the attraction of the sun and the moon, in their 
several positions respecting the earth, and will, by 
simple inspection, show the observer what kind of 
weather will most probably follow the entrance of 
the moon into any of its quarters, and that so near 
the truth, as to be seldom or never found to fail. 
If the new moon, the first quarter, the full moon, 
or the last quarter, happens 
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Observation 1. The nearer the time of the 
moon’s change, first quarter, full, and last quarter, 
are to midnight, the fairer will the weather be 
during the seven days following. 
2. The space for this calculation occupies from 
ten at night till two next morning. 
3. The nearer to midday or noon, the phases of 
the moon happens, the more foul or wet weather 
may be expected during the next seven days. 
4 . The space for this calculation occupies from 
ten in the forenoon to two in the afternoon; these 
observations refer principally to the summer, though 
they affect spring and autumn nearly in the same 
ratio. 
5. The moon’s change in the first quarter, full, 
and last quarter, happening during six of the after¬ 
noon hours, that is, from four to ten, may be fol¬ 
lowed by fair weather; but this is mostly depend¬ 
ant on the wind, which is noted in the table. 
6 . Though the weather, from a variety of irreg¬ 
ular causes, is more uncertain in the latter part of 
autumn, the whole of winter and beginning of 
spring, yet, in the main, the above observations 
will apply to those periods also. 
7. To prognosticate correctly, especially in those 
cases where the wind is concerned, the observer 
