162 STORRS AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 
We are glad to announce that one Grange in the State, which 
owns a small farm, has invited the Station to aid it in conducting 
a series of field experiments. | 
In connection with most of the experiments rainfall records 
have been kept during the growing season. These, with the 
records from quite a number of other localities in the State, will 
be found on page 159 of this Report. From these records it will 
be seen that during that part of the season (June, July and 
August) when the corn crop most needs moisture the rainfall was 
very deficient. 
POUNDS REQUIRED FOR A BUSHEL OF DRY SHELLED CORN, 
The percentages of water at harvest in the corn of the different 
experiments are found to vary considerably. The field weights 
are not-an accurate measure of the value of the cropaagiiie 
moisture and the proportions of cob to corn vary widely on dif- 
ferent fields, but have been found to be fairly uniform on differ- 
ent plots of the same field. Moisture tests of the corn, at the 
time of harvest, have been made for all but one of the experiments 
in order to find the number of pounds of ears required to make a 
bushel of dry shelled corn. The differences in the percentages 
of water-free corn may be ascribed to two causes; variations in 
the proportion of corn to cob and variations in the moisture con- 
tained in the ears at harvest. 
TABLE 48. 
Percentages of Dry Matter of Corn in Ears (Grain and Cob) and 
the Number of Pounds of Lars Required for a 
Bushel of Shelled Corn. 







: Pounds of Ears at 
Water-free Corn in Harvest to Equal 
Samples (Ears) at | 6 lbs, Shel’d Corn 
NAME AND LOCALITY. Harvest. with rr % Water. 
Good. Poor. Good. Poor. 
d, q Lbay,)s) ea Boe 
J. M. Hull, Madison, ss > = 68.4 61.1 yee 81 
J. D. Kelsey, Madison, - - - 61.6 Res 81 go 
E. K. Clauss, Rockville, - - - 70.0 62.7 ih i 79 
Ekonk Grange, Ekonk, - - - 50.4 43.0 98 I15 
Station, Storrs, - - - - - 59.5 56.8 84 87 


The differences seen in the table point out the importance of 
knowing the moisture in the crop of each field instead of depend- 
ing upon averages. From 70 to 75 pounds are commonly 


