82 REPORT OF THE First ASSISTANT OF THE 
The juices of three samples of corn stalks were analyzed with 
the following results: 










Se 0 Sylhet ae laos nec 
Sey oF ne gah | gw 2a 
King Philip field corn . Sept.19 1949.41 /1.027| 2.76] 2.17| 2.18 
Evergreen corn....... Oct. : 58.18 | 1.0384} 2.50) 2.382) 3.85 
00) 2.14] 8.65 

Ruby sweet corn...... Oct. 58.35 | 1.059 | 4. 


Analyses were made of several samples of Early Amber 
sorghum, grown by the horticulturist on plats differently fertil- 
ized. 
There were twenty-four plats which had been differently fertil- 
ized in 1887 and a crop of English Ray grass grown on them that 
year. In May, 1888, fertilizers were again applied to some of 
- them and sorghum planted about the first of June. The rows 
were three and one-half feet apart and the stalks four or five 
inches apart. These plats had received no fertilizer for at aie: 
four years previously. 
The kinds and amounts of fertilizing material applied was as 
follows : 

