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Proportions.
One hundred grains of each. Water. Dry.

Golden Sioux corn, a bright, yellow, twelve-rowed}
variety, frequently having fourteen rows } 15.02 84.98
Large eight-rowed yellow corn 14.00 86.00
Small eight-rowed ditto 14.03 85.97
White flint corn 14.00 86.00
Ohio Dent corn, one of the largest varieties of }
maize } 14.50 85.50

COMPARATIVE ORGANIC ANALYSIS.
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| Golden | Ohio | Small | Large | White
| Sioux. | Dent | 8-rowed | 8-rowed | Flint
| | Corn. | Corn. | Corn. | Corn.
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Starch | 36.06 | 41.85 | 30.29 | 49.22 | 40.34
Gluten | 5.00 | 4.62 | 5.60 | 5.40 | 7.69
Oil | 3.44 | 3.88 | 3.90 | 3.71 | 4.68
Albumen | 4.42 | 2.64 | 6.00 | 3.32 | 3.40
Casein | 1.92 | 1.32 | 2.20 | 0.75 | 0.50
Dextrine | 1.30 | 5.40 | 4.61 | 1.90 | 3.00
Fibre | 18.50 | 21.36 | 26.80 | 11.96 | 18.01
Sugar and extract | 7.25 | 10.00 | 5.20 | 9.55 | 8.30
Water | 15.02 | 10.00 | 13.40 | 14.00 | 14.00
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Large quantities of starch are now made from this grain in Ohio; an
establishment near Columbus consume 20,000 bushels of corn annually
for this purpose. The offal of the grain is given to hogs, 500 to 600
head being annually fattened therewith. The quality of the starch is
said to be superior to that of wheat, and commands a higher price in
New York.

A corn plant, fifteen days after the seed was planted, cut on the 3rd
June close to the ground, gave of--

Water 86.626
Dry matter 10.374
Ash 1.354
Ash calculated dry 13.053

By the above figures it will be seen that nearly 90 per cent, of the
young plant is water; and that in proportion to the dry matter, the
amount of eart