New Yorx AarioutturaL Experiment STATION. 135 
In the fall of 1894 average samples of stalks of two of these 
varieties wereagain taken for analysis, with the following 
results : | 



- VARIETY. Specific Per cent. Per cent. 

gravity. sugar. glucos: . 
BROee Wel SuIsVETOTEeN .. ke ee oe 1.056 8.90 2.26 
IGOKOK Ss... . (HEA as SAine pale ean ee 1.055 8.59 1.96 

The average weight of these stalks in 18938, after the ears had 
been removed, was 21.2 ounces, and after the tops and blades had 
been removed, 13.6 ounces. In 1894 the average weight of the 
stalks was, after removal of the ears, 18 ounces, and after the 
removal of blades and tops it was 12.3 ounces. Allowing the 
corn to be planted in hills four feet by four and four stalks in a 
hill, the weight of topped and stripped stalks per acre would 
have been, in 1893, 9,257 pounds, and in 1894, 8,372 pounds. For 
purposes of comparison the following results are given as the 
average forfour years from the juices of sugar cane grown in 
Louisiana: Sugar, 10.67 per cent.; glucose, 1.73 per cent. It 
will be seen, therefore, that for the production of syrup, which ~ 
would take both sugars, the cornstalk juice contained as the - 
average of the two years 11.18 per cent., or 90 per cent. of that 
present in the sugar cane Juice, and, since many hundreds of 
acres of corn are being grown for canning purposes, it seems to 
be quite worth while to attempt the manufacture of syrup from 
the stalks, especially since the begasse left after having expressed 
all the juice which could be secured by a mill, would be excellent 
material for use in the silo, in this way utilizing every 
portion of this crop. 


Analyses of Bean Straw, Stalks and Pods. 
A — Bean straw, from pea beans. 
B — Bean straw, from red kidney bean, 
C — Bean stalks. 
- D— Bean pods of red kidney bean. 

