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No. of Good Ears, 



No. of Poor Ears, 



No. of Abortive Ears, .... 



Total No. of Ears 



Wt. of Merchantable Corn, lbs. 



Wt. of Poor Corn, lbs 



No. of Stalks, 



ioo Stalks weighed, lbs. . . . 



It will thus be seen that the number of good ears and the weight 

 of merchantable corn, were both a little more than fifty per cent, 

 greater on those rows from which the tassels were removed than 

 upon those upon which the tassels were left. This is not only 

 true of the two sets of rows as a whole, but with the individual 

 rows as well. In no case did a row upon which the tassels were 

 left produce anywhere near as much as the tasseled rows on either 

 side of it. as is shown at length in the detailed table given below. 

 In fact, the results given above are really the aggregate results of 

 twenty-four distinct duplicate experiments, each of which alone 

 showed the same thing as the aggregate of all. 



By abortive ears is meant those ' ' sets ' ' that made only a bunch 

 husks, and sometimes a small cob, but no grain. It will be no- 

 ticed that they were by far the most numerous on those rows from 

 which the tassels were not removed. It will also be noticed that 

 the total of the good, poor, and abortive ears is about fourteen 

 per cent greater on the rows on which the tassels were left, while 

 the weight of merchantable corn is more than fifty per cent, great- 

 er on those rows from which the tassels were removed. 



In the following table are given the details for each row. The 

 rows contained forty-two hills, and ran north and south. Row 

 No. 1 was on the west side. The whole plot suffered severely by 

 the drought ; but the west side less so than the east, consequently 

 as the rows proceed from west to east the yield particularly of 

 good corn grows less and less, but it will be seen that the rela- 

 tion between the yield of the rows on which the tassels were left, 

 and the rows from which they were taken off, remains about the 

 same. 



